In the fall of 2021, after a remote year, I was teaching in person wearing a mask close to 100% of the time.
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There are several photographs circulating online right now purporting to show the full, unmasked face of Renee Good’s killer. These photos are, as far as I’m aware, all AI-generated.
Please do not share these photos.
Remember that, as with all gen AI, it is answering the question “What would be statistically plausible here?” It’s not showing you the •killer’s• face. It’s showing you •a• face that fits with the what we know of the killer’s face.
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@inthehands Please report the post. It’s incredibly irresponsible to post something like that. Some innocent schmoe (or their family) is going to get seriously hurt or killed because of it.
(I did report it)
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I hope the identity of Good’s killer is in fact revealed.
Let’s help with that by being very careful about what information we share, and making sure it’s good information. That’s hard, and we’ll all mess up I’m sure. But let’s do our best.
Now at least you and I both have a warning: if there’s a purported photo of Good’s killer, be careful and be skeptical.
/end
@inthehands Somebody needs to dox that ICE terrorist motherfucker!
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In the fall of 2021, after a remote year, I was teaching in person wearing a mask close to 100% of the time. A few weeks into one intro course, where the students didn’t already know me, I lowered my mask for a moment and there were audible gasps from the class. They’d never seen the lower half of my face!
“What did you •think• was going to be down there?!” I quipped. (Maybe they were picturing tentacles, like an Ood?)
But the gasp was genuine: after hours of looking at my masked face, they still had no idea what my •unmasked• face looks like.
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@inthehands I suffered some dermatology problems during the height of Covid that required attention. Many appointments ensued over the following 2 years. It was such a shock to see my derm doctor's face when the practice decided that masks were optional.
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Generative AI can’t magically reveal otherwise unknown truths. AI doesn’t have any idea what the lower half of the killer’s face looks, no more than my students knew what my unmasked face looked like.
What AI •can• do is generate a random plausible face that really looks like a face. It might even look like the face of a real person — a random, innocent person.
Sharing AI-generated unmasking photos is dangerous.
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@inthehands There's an exhibit in the Exploratorium in San Francisco - "Probably Chelsea". While it's not exactly the same thing, it's a great visual example of exactly how much variance algorithms can produce. https://deweyhagborg.com/projects/probably-chelsea
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I hope the identity of Good’s killer is in fact revealed.
Let’s help with that by being very careful about what information we share, and making sure it’s good information. That’s hard, and we’ll all mess up I’m sure. But let’s do our best.
Now at least you and I both have a warning: if there’s a purported photo of Good’s killer, be careful and be skeptical.
/end
@inthehands@hachyderm.io
Supposedly he went to a hospital after the incident. Presumably, Minneapolis PD could subpoena today's intake manifests at local hospitals to try to find him. -
There are several photographs circulating online right now purporting to show the full, unmasked face of Renee Good’s killer. These photos are, as far as I’m aware, all AI-generated.
Please do not share these photos.
Remember that, as with all gen AI, it is answering the question “What would be statistically plausible here?” It’s not showing you the •killer’s• face. It’s showing you •a• face that fits with the what we know of the killer’s face.
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@inthehands
Thank you for critical information. I hope it's widely shared. -
There are several photographs circulating online right now purporting to show the full, unmasked face of Renee Good’s killer. These photos are, as far as I’m aware, all AI-generated.
Please do not share these photos.
Remember that, as with all gen AI, it is answering the question “What would be statistically plausible here?” It’s not showing you the •killer’s• face. It’s showing you •a• face that fits with the what we know of the killer’s face.
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@inthehands Exactly what I thought, Paul. Great advice.
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@inthehands Please report the post. It’s incredibly irresponsible to post something like that. Some innocent schmoe (or their family) is going to get seriously hurt or killed because of it.
(I did report it)
@inthehands Update: One of the posts has been deleted. Not sure if it’s by the poster or the admins.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io
Supposedly he went to a hospital after the incident. Presumably, Minneapolis PD could subpoena today's intake manifests at local hospitals to try to find him.@ferricoxide trusting the police to browse through patient data is a really dangerous precedent
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Generative AI can’t magically reveal otherwise unknown truths. AI doesn’t have any idea what the lower half of the killer’s face looks, no more than my students knew what my unmasked face looked like.
What AI •can• do is generate a random plausible face that really looks like a face. It might even look like the face of a real person — a random, innocent person.
Sharing AI-generated unmasking photos is dangerous.
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Honestly, if I could magically make everyone understand one sciency thing it would be information theory.
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