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Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes
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Because it's gross, and they do it to minors now. and all they need are pictures of your kids from your social media profile. They even use AI to undress them.
And here we have the real answer: prudism. "It's gross". And of course "think of the children". You don't have a real answer, you have fear mongering
I agree the issue is one of puritan attitudes toward sex and nudity. If no one gave a fuck about nude images, they wouldn't be humiliating, and if they weren't humiliating then the victim wouldn't really even be a victim.
However we live in the world we live in and people do find it embarrassing and humiliating to have nude images of themselves made public, even fakes, and I don't think it's right to tell them they can't feel that way.
They shouldn't ever have been made to feel their bodies are something to be embarrassed about, but they have been and it can't be undone with wishful thinking. Societal change must come first. But that complication aside, I agree with you completely.
Even without being puritan, there are just different levels of intimacy we are willing to share with different social circles - which might be different for everyone. It's fundamental to our happiness (in my opinion) to be able to decide for ourselves what we share with whom.
In this case I don't feel fake images are intimate at all, but I don't disagree with your point.
You might not, but others do. People have rather different thresholds when it comes to what they consider intimate. I recommend to just listen to interviews with victims and it becomes clear that to them the whole thins is very intimate and disturbing.
And I said their feelings are valid and should be respected regardless of how I might feel about them. I'm not sure if you are looking for something more from me here. Despite my personal feelings that nudity shouldn't be a source of shame, the fact is that allowing nudity to be used to hurt folks on the premise that nudity is shameful is something I utterly oppose. Like, I don't think you should be ashamed if someone has a picture of you naked, but the real enemy is the person saying, "haha! I have pictures of you naked!!!" Whether the pictures are AI, or photoshopped, or painted on a canvas, or even real photographs.
I see, it's seems that I misunderstood you. Now that I get your point, I would rather agree.
In your defense, ending my earlier post with "I agree with you completely" is probably incongruous with my actual feelings given the post I was replying to. I have to heavily edit my posts to keep from rambling and sometimes the thread gets lost in my head by the time I actually hit the post button.
So you would not mind if I send AI sex videos of you to your parents and friends? How about a video where you are sexually degraded playing in public space - how would you feel about that? Maybe you performing sexual acts that you find gross yourself? You just need a bit of empathy to understand that not everyone is into exhibitionism and wants intimate things become public.
I'd really prefer that people not send my parents any kind of porn.
I look at it like someone took my face out of a Facebook picture, printed it, cut it out, pasted it over some porn, and did the same thing.
It'd be a weird thing for them to do, but I don't really need to send the law after them for it. Maybe for harassment?
Laws have a cost, even good intentioned laws. I don't believe we need new ones for this.
Do you think people might change their opinion on you and act differently after seeing you performing in porn?
It causes distress to victims, arguably violates personal rights and is moral and ethically at least questionable. What would be downsides of criminal persecution for non-consensual sexual Deepfakes?
If they understand that this kind of porn exists? No.
But that's an education thing, not a legal thing.
The downside is giving law enforcement yet another excuse to violate digital privacy. Laws that are difficult/impossible to enforce tend to do more harm than good.
I don't see this law removing any fake Taylor Swift porn from the Internet. Or really any other celebrity, for that matter.
You know people form opinions on actors based on their roles in movies? So people will change what they think of you and how they act towards you based on media, even if it's clearly fictional.
How exactly? Which new abilities to violate digital privacy is given the state by the this bill?
Yeah, but it's happening to women mostly so these commenters probably don't really care.
I think a lot of man have unfortunately difficulties to empathize with women here, because they have rather different experience when it comes to expressing their sexuality and possible negative consequences.
"So you would not mind if I send AI sex videos of you to your parents and friends?". Seems like sending it would be the dick move. My family and friends probably have no interest in seeing deepfakes of me naked.
"How about a video where you are sexually degraded playing in public space - how would you feel about that?" Considering its not really me.. meh. I don't personally care. Because it's not me.
"Maybe you performing sexual acts that you find gross yourself?" If someone wants to make deepfakes of me eating poop or something for whatever reason.. oh well? It's not really me.
But you do you.
It mostly not saying that it's deepfakes of you. It's just a whats app message from someone who does not like you and you have to explain a whole new technology to your parents.
You know it, others don't. This will greatly change others perception of you and how they treat you.
Your boss and coworkers don't know.
No, but I have empathy with other people.
Not at all. Think of the consequences of someone’s nudes were leaked or an onlyfans account was made with images of them, and an employer sees it. They’re already firing teachers for being on there. And a lot of times they’re used in extortion. Not to mention your image is your property. It is you. And nobody else has rights to that.
You don’t have to take nudes anymore to have nudes leaked. There are Ai that strip clothes from pictures. People have been making csam off of pictures of peoples kids on their Instagram profiles,etc.
Generating sexual images of minors is already illegal. And these images can be generated by anyone modestly technical on their computer, so you can't go after people for creating or posessing the images (except if they look too young), only distribution.
This is unfortunately theater and will do basically nothing. How does a person even know if they are deep fakes? Or consensual? Hell what's too close of a likeness, because some of those images didn't look that much like her and at least one was not even realistic.
I'm not saying it's cool people are doing this, just that enforcement of this law is going to be a mess. You wind up with weird standards like how on Instagram you can show your labia but only through sheer material. Are deep fakes fine if you run them through an oil painting filter?
Probably since nobody could mistake an oil painting for the real person, it's not a deep fake anymore.
I have about a 99% success rate at identifying AI full body images of people. People need to learn to look better. They look just as fake as the oil paintings.
You can go photo or even hyper realism with oil. And with AI you just need a bit of post.
Confirmation bias much?
I think that's relevant when the defense against oil paintings is that you can tell they aren't real. The line can't be "you can't tell they are fake" because... well... you can identify AI artwork 99% of the time and the other 1% is basically when the pose is exactly so to conceal the telltale signs and the background is extremely simple so as to give nothing away.
And if I feel that cooking carrots is gross and cooked carrots shouldn't be fed to minors or miners? Should that be illegal as well?
Illegal should be things that harm individuals or society. Since the understanding of what is harmful or not might rather differ, we have to come up with compromises or conses on what actually becomes illegal.
If they’re ripped off of someone else’s farm, yes.
Stolen carrots that are raw still cool though!