Why You Should Pause Before Uploading Photos to AI?

Yes, I definitely encourage others to embrace new technology as they are comfortable. AND, I also believe that people should be careful.

Please avoid playing “Simon Says” online. What is “Simon Says”? You know. Kind of like “follow the leader”.

You see great images online, and you want to create them too. All you have to do is upload your personal images to an AI tool, and you can do it too. These articles talk about why you may want to reconsider or at least pause.

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Even with this, we are going to need stronger legislation and genuine investment in new ways of addressing cybercrime on a global scale. Not as a sidearm to law enforcement but as its own separate, intelligent, powerful force.

We have needed this since the internet started becoming as common as televisions and telephones, and children were the main targets. Maybe now, the need will become clearer to some.