Comment on Fake Photos, Real Harm: AOC and the Fight Against AI Porn

• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It isn’t either/or.

  kind of, this is like doing a blame game for climate change, 30 years from now.

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  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My issue with the topic is that everyone targets the wrong thing and just jumps on the media hysteria. They are not going to be able to stop the production or distribution of deepfakes, and imo they shouldn't, because they're basically just an advanced form of photo & video editing that already existed for decades and it did not bother anyone up until now that "AI" became a media scapegoat. What they should be bother to enforce is the illegitimate use of such material, for things like blackmail, bullying, disinformation etc.
    Some neckbeards wanking one out on a clearly marked deepfake porn video isn't really going to harm the person depicted. Using such a video to claim it is real on the other hand to smear or blackmail them on the other hand is. And this type of bullying has also been going on for decades through classical photo & video manipulation, and again, it did not bother anyone up until now.
    And by focusing on this idiotic media hype instead of the real issue we basically make sure that it keeps on happening, just like with climate change.

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