Are AI filters becoming stricter than society itself?
19 tsevis 1 8/24/2025, 1:24:17 AM
While experimenting with digital art and AI tools, I noticed how aggressively filters block historical, political, or artistic imagery. I wrote about how this impacts art, research, and cultural memory. Curious how others here see this balance between safety and censorship.
https://tsevis.com/censorship-ai-and-the-war-on-context
The initial idea was good and very much needed to eliminate (or at least heavily reduce) long-established racism/bigotry.
But the problem is that a lot of people started to abuse it as a virtue-signalling mechanism and/or a way to justify their jobs, leading to insanities like renaming the Git “master” branch.
I suspect AI safety is the same. There’s a grain of truth and usefulness to it, but no AI safety person will intentionally declare “we figured out how to make models safe, my job here is done”, so they have to always push the envelope, even towards ridiculous levels.