Hollywood Actor Ashton, top dog of Thorn (caught with it's pants down with a bunch of evangelical groups as "partners" in 2019), who has no expertise in child protection, free expression, innovation, or human rights, should not be commenting on "AI".

He has a history of supporting things with "unintended consequences", and failing to achieve whatever it is he is trying to achieve.

Such as supporting an "anti sex trafficking" law which made sex trafficking in the U.S. worse, simply because it was marketed as "tough on sex trafficking".

Congress, the mess that it is, is incapable of passing a bill to fund *research* on whether it had the intended effect of reducing sex trafficking, despite part of the government seemingly admitting it increased it.

Or lobbying a bunch of probably corrupt bureaucrats in the E.U. to spy on everyone with the Chat Stasi.

I tire of this guy.

Theoretically, a tiny number of bad people in a remote hive of scum and villainy might abuse it. Chances are they're already doing other garbage which you can bust them for and it doesn't make a practical difference.

Rationally though, it is extremely unlikely that most people have little demon horns on their heads, and go out of their way to do evil.

Practically speaking, it's not even clear his efforts wouldn't lead to the world becoming less safe for just about everyone. It certainly wouldn't be the first time.

It's a prohibitionist / techno-solutionist approach without any thought as to how the real world works. He has not thought of any of this. It shows.

Some places prohibition has taken us to.

Do you want to use the term "young" to generate something in a SFW context? Well, sucks to be you. We need to limit that, on the off-chance someone might abuse it in a strangely specific scenario.

Are you an artist who happened to use an AI to create a work (i.e. semi-realistic cartoons)? Time to be censored and punished.