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In recent months similar AI-generated content has flooded social media platforms, openly promoting violence and spreading hate against members of LGBTQ+, Jewish, Muslim and other minority groups.
While the origin of most of those videos is unclear, their spread on social media is sparking outrage and concern among experts and advocates who say Canadian regulations cannot keep up with the pace of hateful AI-generated content, nor adequately address the risks it poses to public safety.
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"When they create the environment where there's a lot of celebration of violence towards those groups, it does make violence towards those groups happening in person or on the streets more likely,” Balgord warned in a phone interview. ...
Lewis, who is also an assistant professor at Ontario Tech University, said that large language models such as ChatGPT have implemented safeguards in an effort to filter out harmful or illegal content.
But more needs to be done in the video space to create such guardrails, he said.
“You and I could watch the video and probably be horrified,” he said, adding “it's not clear necessarily that the AI system has the ability to sort of reflect on what it has created.” ...
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