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.
There’s a pretty big fucking difference between normalizing nudity and people putting the faces of 14 year olds in porn video through deepfakes.
Normalizing nudity will help in not taking seriously such videos. As bad as deepfakes porn videos sound remember that literally anyone can use his imagination to visualize vividly anything they want. Censoring AI, which is something that can happen only with the implementation of dystopian and anti-freedom laws (such as banning encryption) isn’t going to prevent people pretending to have sex with someone.
Good luck both policing it and having a society with a healthy relationship with our biology and Ai technology without some sort of societal perspective change.
Healthy is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the context of PDFs.