Sam Altman’s tone-deaf response to ChatGPT stealing content and creating deepfakes
I wasn’t expecting a ChatGPT product to go viral in late March, but here we are. OpenAI stunned the world with the release of GPT-4o … The post Sam Altman’s tone-deaf response to ChatGPT stealing content and creating deepfakes appeared first on BGR.


I wasn't expecting a ChatGPT product to go viral in late March, but here we are. OpenAI stunned the world with the release of GPT-4o image generation, a new AI model that's built right into ChatGPT, giving users incredibly advanced image generation features.
Send a detailed prompt to the AI, and ChatGPT will immediately draw a mind-blowing image based on your instructions. The pictures can contain legible text, a first for ChatGPT image generation, which is impressive. Also, the AI image generation tool can use real photos to edit them however you want.
The problem is that OpenAI made ChatGPT's new image generation tool available to premium users without strong safety guardrails. The web was immediately flooded with deepfakes from ChatGPT that feature celebrities and a ton of Studio Ghibli-inspired AI drawings.
ChatGPT doesn't even place a watermark on its creations to inform viewers they're AI-generated images. The metadata isn't a good enough safety feature, not when anyone can create these fakes. Gemini might remove watermarks from copyrighted creations but at least places its own watermark on the results.
What's worse is Sam Altman's tone-deaf response to all of this. The OpenAI CEO is embracing all the praise the ChatGPT AI tool got, which is certainly deserved, without actually committing to better safeguards.
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