Reducing malicious use of synthetic media research - Aviv Ovadya - Medium

One approach being used to potentially mitigate harmful impacts is to consider partially withholding research outputs which seem particularly susceptible to malicious use (mal-use). Other fields, such as biotechnology and information security, have developed practices that can limit what researchers study or publish in order to reduce harm. Whether the machine learning community should also develop analogous practices, and specifically more cautionary release practices, has been the subject of recent discussion (we go into specific practices that might be adoptable from those fields in the full paper).