Thursday, October 13, 2022

Future Security Threats - Example One - The Threat from Stable Diffusion

I'm playing with Stable Diffusion on my PC, to see what kind of things it comes up with, and learn a bit more about the nature of AI. I've been trying to visualize the words of my friend Lloyd Smith, who well before his passing often said in jest

When I die... I want to be sat upright in a chair at a card table, on the surface of the moon, with a royal flush in my hands, and a shit eating grin on my face. That will give the astronomy students something fun to look for.
There have been quite a few thought provoking outputs, some of which worked out really well


But in browsing through them this morning, out of the 500+ images I've generated on this theme, I saw this

Which immediately brought back to mind the NDC Keynote Presentation by Laura Bell I watched last night, which addressed future security threats. One of the possibilities was the threat of curated data sets... and here it was in my own PC.

I don't know how, but somewhere in this curated set of data, copyrights might have been broken. The future is here.