A mother and her 14-year-old daughter are advocating for better protections for victims after AI-generated nude images of the teen and other female classmates were circulated at a high school in New Jersey.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, officials are investigating an incident involving a teenage boy who allegedly used artificial intelligence to create and distribute similar images of other students – also teen girls - that attend a high school in suburban Seattle, Washington.
The disturbing cases have put a spotlight yet again on explicit AI-generated material that overwhelmingly harms women and children and is booming online at an unprecedented rate. According to an analysis by independent researcher Genevieve Oh that was shared with The Associated Press, more than 143,000 new deepfake videos were posted online this year, which surpasses every other year combined.
I wonder what the prevalence of this kind of behavior is like in countries that aren’t so weird about sex.
This has nothing to do with “being weird about sex” and everything to do with men treating women poorly.
You can expect this to be worse in nations where women don’t have as many rights and/or where misogyny is accepted as part of life.
Sounds plausible, we just abolished Roe, so…. It’s not looking great for the future of this issue in the US.
Yeah shit sucks
Kids don’t know or understand the damage this can cause someone.
They see it as a joke most of the time.
It needs to be made illegal and the kids properly educated about why.
It’s easy as an adult to condemn these children but we have a lot more life experience.
So, you’re saying both:
So… you think the solution to childish behavior is putting kids in jail?
*deep breath* lemme try to see a more logical interpretation….
Wait, you did mention education, ok I musta missed that on my first read.
So educate the kids, and if they don’t learn… jail
Jail is not the only possible punishment for anything illegal.
Didn’t say jail, you did. I in fact didn’t talk about punishment at all.
But there has to be consequences.
If kids steal we don’t just throw them straight in jail. But it is a possible consequence.
We’re also talking about 14 year olds not literal children.
14 year olds are absolutely literally children
Oh so why are red states demanding that they be mothers?
What’s with remnants of reddit and pretending teenagers are kids? They aren’t, they are teens, they can even make babies with themselves, drive and vote.
Illegal necessarily implies punishment, as far as I understand.
Also, 14 year olds are children. But the trajectory of this conversation is clear, and it’s not going anywhere.
Well that’s the result when you put words in peoples’ mouths, instead of trying to have a discussion.
If I don’t make any logical steps given the limited words provided in a conversation, then communication becomes impossibly slow. Therefore i feel that I have to make such logical steps. Because text based communication, in the current times, is a bandwidth constraint on the passage of concepts between two human minds. In this case, because of said bandwidth constraint existing between your brain and mine, I made the step and assumed that when you mention making something illegal, that you meant that governments should prohibit the act and do as they (in my understanding) typically do and enforce said prohibition with threat of incarceration. That may have been an oversimplified view of the judicial system, there are other means of enforcement, but I’m only really familiar with the idea of children either being incarcerated or maybe given community service, but I usually (I’m not sure why) given to believe that community service isn’t usually a statutory punishment, but rather a discretionary adjustment that a judge can afford someone. It’s also worth noting that I have concerns about the way in which minorities are disproportionately sentenced, procecuted, and ultimately harmed by the judicial system. Concerns which bias my thoughts when the subject is raised. But I’d like to make clear that I’m using the term bias a bit more strictly, as in every human has a bias against/for basically everything.
So, if I may take another leap, it seems you’re implying that you are specifically talking about me, and not using “you” in the general sense. And I’ll assume you’re actually referring to this current conversation, and claiming that I caused this outcome because I put words in your mouth. Oh, and by that you’re saying (again, these are my assumptions) that I’m claiming that you said something which you never actually said.
So maybe, if you take some logical leaps for the sake of me being able to type this in my life time, you can see that I was not necessarily trying to maliciously misconstrue what it is that you were saying.
And in case it’s not clear, the above is conveyed with mild contempt for you.
It’s actually called a straw man logical fallacy.
You exaggerated what I said and then attacked your exaggeration.
Are you familiar with the fallacy fallacy?
What sort of “consequences” are you talking about that aren’t punishment?
https://dare.org/
If your argument is “The educators just need to make sure the kids learn that this is not a joke”, DARE has been educating students about the dangers of illegal drugs for 40 years.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-dozens-of-u-s-adolescents-are-dying-of-drug-overdoses-each-month-shown-in-3-charts
You might persuade some, but the problem will not go away.
DARE is known as a bad program, because it goes for fear mongering rather actual education. Everyone knows someone who uses marijuana, and they’re teeth haven’t all fallen out and they’re haven’t turned into a psychotic murderer. [VOX - Why anti-drug campaigns like DARE fail
](https://www.vox.com/2014/9/1/5998571/why-anti-drug-campaigns-like-dare-fail)
There are good and bad ways to go about education. Like comprehensive sex education vs abstinence only, even though they’re covering the same topic, actual education is much more effective than just say no. [NLM Abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education study
](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18346659/)
That was my point. DARE didn’t stop drug use. Any education will persuade some. However, unless the students and their families buy in at 100%, this problem isn’t going away.
https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-high-adults-unable-basic-mathematical.html
Education alone is not going to make this go away.
I 100% agree that education alone will not resolve the issue, but I believe education can help the efficacy of other approaches.
I did a report on the dangers of LSD when I was young.
I learned it’s impossible to overdose on and nobody has died directly as a result of it.
I had never been so interested in trying something out. “Okay so the world becomes crazy for 4-8 hours and you see crazy stuff and everything is hilarious and you can’t die at all and all you gotta do it be in a comfy set and setting”
God damn, Imma clean out a vial and watch Enter the Void
Quick edit: staring at my MacBook Pro turned into fractals and it’s just fucking anodized aliminium wtf that’s cool
DARE is not a good example to hold up because the program doesn’t work.
Although some studies reveal that DARE has the positive effects of promoting positive police- juvenile relations and imparting accurate information about drugs and drug use, but it does not appear to deter drug use.
Edit: to clarify, DARE has always been flawed and ineffective. There was a study in 1994 that showed this yet it didn’t stop or change the program.
You’re using DARE as a positive example‽ the DARE program is widely considered to be an enormous failure. Here’s a decent rundown:
https://www.talkitoutnc.org/dare-program-effectiveness/#:~:text=program failed to live up,rate of teen drug use.
(But if you just search it up you’ll find hundreds of similar articles)
I was in school when the DARE program was quite strongly promoted and I specifically remember being fed endless misinformation about drugs. It was never about educating children it was about trying to scare them with bullshit.
“If they were wrong about marijuana being addicting they’re probably wrong about everything else…”
…aaaaand that’s how young people ended up trying all sorts of new things.
Other people seem to think you’re holding up Dare as a positive example. I can tell you’re not, but I don’t think it’s a great negative example either. So much of the content is fear mongering bullshit that anyone who actually encounters drugs in real life will see through it.
Education works a lot better when you teach kids things that aren’t directly contradicted by their experiences or their peers’.
Education will persuade some.
Education alone will not make the problem go away.
I think at some point kids need to learn that there won’t be someone stopping them from doing bad things.
They need to suffer the consequences of their actions through social rejection. If the microcosm is so shitty that it doesn’t ostracize people who disseminate nudes, then the people in it deserve to suffer until they improve.
This should be one of the easiest ways to identify shitbags, but I understand a lot of social hierarchies put shitbags at or near the top.
What does this have to do with the other? Where I live nudity isn’t all that uncommon (when compared to the US, for example). But sexually harassing someone with fake porn is whole different issue.
I see a lot of problems with people having trouble understanding consent and struggling to respect other people. Those boys are weird about sex. That’s the weirdness we should address.
My bad, I wasn’t as clear as I could have been. I meant, I wonder if boys would be so weird as to want to make such fake porn in places that are less weird about sex.
Did you think I was advocating for the fake images?
Naked pictures are all over the internet and they still wanted to make porn of their classmates. It’s not about wanting the porn, it’s about wanting to burt the girls.
I first thought it was more about the boys having a shitty concept, or no concept at all of consent… but that it was ultimately a horrible expression of interest in the girl. But no doubt both are possibilities. And neither is okay.
No I thought you meant that being hurt by fake porn about yourself is “being weird about sex”.
I imagine, in a society where the appeal of such images is low, the sanctity of the image of the body probably isn’t a big deal and people wouldn’t be so hurt by them either.
It’s still a questionable way to approach it. Why should the consequence be that people are simply “too weird about sex” and that should change? Instead of that the boys are weird and should change? It’s typical victim blaming.
This perspective (the victim should change) is very prevalent when the crime is sexual harassment of girls and women.
Did I imply that the victim should change?
Boys and men are pretty similar the world over. Some are always going to be creeps who do shit like this, it doesn’t matter what culture they’re in.
So you’re saying they’re criminalizing natural and predictable human behavior
I mean, murder and theft is natural and predictable human behavior under the right circumstances.
Good point.
Nobody said it was natural. Learned behavior reverberates through generations. Especially when it is more than one family that doesn’t frown on such behavior. Cultural norms re-enforce bad behavior as “normal.”
It’s implied when one says that behaviors are the same the world over, spanning cultures and ethnicities.
“They’re just boys being boys, Your Honor!”