OctoML, the engine that powers a16z funded Civitai, thought the images could qualify as “child pornography,” but ultimately decided to keep working with the company anyway, internal Slack chats and other material shows.

While I think this is a bit overblown in sensationalism, any company that allows user generative AI, especially as open as using LoRas and any amount of checkpoints, needs to have very good protection against synthetic CSAM like this. To the best of my knowledge, only the AI Horde has taken this sufficiently seriously until now.

  • @ReallyActuallyFrankensteinEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    I’d agree with the caveat that a model that may be trained on actual CSAM is a problem. Anything that is an actual product of, or cannot exist without, child abuse should be absolutely prohibited and avoided.

    I’m not sure whether there is such a model out there, but now that I imagine it, I assume it’s inevitable there will be one. Apart from being disturbing to think about, that introduces another problem - which is, once that happens how will anyone know the model was trained on such images?

    • HubertManne
      2•7 months ago

      Oh I can totally agree with the training part but that can’t be fought at the ai level it needs to be stopped at the csam level.