This Content is Restricted: AI for Thee But Not for Me

I’ve been using A.I. in my day to day life to generate all sorts of things. Mainly plugging away with Claude and generating code for my projects or going back and forth to ask questions. Being a skeptic at first, I have to say that it has changed the day to day of how I work.

Working With Generative AI Video Models

One of the things that I even tend to look at myself in disappointment is using the video generation models. I run an agency that drives leads via Meta’s platform. Obviously on Meta, content is king. You’re looking to find a winning concept. I adopted A.I. generative models(like many others competitors in my space) to do this process.

One thing I see every day when I’m generating content is “This Content is Restricted”. You spend time coming up with an idea for a clip and tweaking it again once you hit this message. Just to get hit with it again. It can be an extremely frustrating process. This will happen on what I believe are relatively benign prompts. I’m not trying to generate porn or even violent concepts.

What’s Next?

It gets me thinking, if people like me are stuck with these commercial offerings that arbitrarily flag content then what about those who have access to the models that don’t have these restrictive guard rails. What I believe will happen is certain entities will have access to the guardrailess models and be able to use that advantage in any way they see fit. They control what people will ultimately be viewing in the future. Who they are and what they will do with it is the question worth figuring out.