Submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/03/ai-deepfake-nude-images-new-jersey-high-school
Westfield is but one example of an issue all school districts are grappling with as the omnipresence of technology — including artificial intelligence — impacts students' lives, the district's superintendent Raymond González said in a statement.
“knife stabbings done with knives shows that is a major threat to society, spokesman says, and remind people to pretend that knife stabbings is a completely new thing that didn’t exist before”
What a stupid take on the issue
What a brilliant counterpoint.
It’s a fair arguement, possibly naive but it’s not as if you couldn’t do this with standard photo manipulation software already. Also the kids are been panicky and stupid why are they paying up they know it isn’t them, if they just calm down and took a breath and thought about it for 10 seconds they’d realise that actually there is no threat.
Deepfakes are nothing new but the ease of access to said tools these days and its popularity are definitely something to be concerned about. Don’t downplay it.
I feel like they said the same thing about Photoshop.
Photoshop was always something that required skill, and a computer to run it, and a copy of a paid program.
This stuff does not need a lot of those hurdles. It’s all about ease and how it’s usable on your pocket computer that you and all your classmates have with you all the time.
Your point is still fair. But there are big differences between what was and this new stuff. You woulda needed a ton more skill and the alignment of a bunch of things to casually generate fake nudes like the ones covered by this article.
and a copy of a paid program.
I pirated photoshop when I was 13
You need a hell of a lot more computer power to run a llm than you do photoshop.
Harassment is wrong whether you’re doing it with Stable Diffusion or passing notes with rude cartoons.
The question that this probably comes down is: “is this a harassment problem or an AI problem?”
Imagine if word processors or email clients refused to let you write malicious or hostile messages. I don’t think that would be an improvement.
Privacy is dead. Society just hasn’t realized it yet.
Information wants to be free
Look that’s nice and all, but it’s not going away and it’s only going to get worse. The age of fake AI porn is only beginning. Full-on porn videos where you can take a couple of photos of someone and the AI will build a model of the person and insert them into the porn video is coming. Whether this is done for laughs, from embarrassment, or because it’s sexy doesn’t matter.
This genie is not going back in the bottle. This is only the tip of the iceberg. We are moving towards an age where you will be able to have virtual sex with anyone you want as long as you have a picture or video of them. VR sex and a porn game that can map someone into a character isn’t that far away. It really doesn’t harm anyone if we quit being such prudes.
It’ll end up just being an extension of the “don’t tell someone randomly that you have fantasies about them”. You keep your AI masturbation habits between you, the AI, and the tech companies and government agencies spying on your masturbation habits.
I completely agree.
Its not about proving if its fake or not. Would you be willing to go to school when you know there are people sitting next to you who made or have seen and shared deepfakes of you? It is disgusting and a terrible experience that can’t be solved by just saying its fake.
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Regulation isn’t going to stop this from happening, especially since there’s a company who is going to build fleets of AI processing barges to float in international waters to bypass this exact type of regulation.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Not to mention it’s already quite easy to run a local generative AI on a modest gaming PC, and it’s only going to get easier.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
International waters don’t bring you money.
Regulation needs to grab them by the money. When making these pics is a crime and that company is aiding to a crime, then an authority can take away all their money or even forbid them business at all. Then they are going to start to think.
But it needs legislation that really means it, and leaves no loopholes.
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You seem to forget that VPNs and crypto exist, so no country can stop it from happening.
onion@feddit.de 1 year ago
The loopholes are other countries
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And then that fleet will sell access to children? Isn’t that a bit disconnected from the specifics of the topic?