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.
It’s harmful, especially at that age. Psychologicaly it triggers a sense of violation of person. It’s a sense of privacy being shattered.
Also not all people experience sexual awakening/understand they are sexual beings, by 14 or even 18. It is confusing/harmful to have that forced upon you.
Talk to a close female friend or your mother regarding how they feel about the AI deepfakr, and how they’d react in highschool if this happened to them. Really listen to the answer and you’ll gain a better understanding of the harm done.
It isn’t forced upon them though, they’re not even involved.
Privacy has not been shattered because this is not something that happened in private. In fact, these nudes didn’t happen in reality at all. It’s imagined, either via AI or via human.
Talk to a close female friend or your mother regarding how they feel about the AI deepfakr, and how they’d react in highschool if this happened to them. Really listen to the answer and you’ll gain a better understanding of the harm done.
Said harm is because of social stigma and shame regarding perceptions of being seen nude, which is what I referred to as being weird. It is a vestige of our puritanical past that we could do without.
Now, if these girls are being harassed, that’s a different matter, that can happen with or without deep fakes. I’m pretty sure we already have methods of dealing with that.
Said harm is because of social stigma and shame regarding perceptions of being seen nude, which is what I referred to as being weird. It is a vestige of our puritanical past that we could do without.
This has big “if you don’t have anything to hide, you have nothing to fear” energy.
“Why would you hide behind clothes? Do you have something to hide?”
Look man, I think our past is puritanical too. However, this is just… I don’t even know how to defend such a skeevy/creepy opinion.
People do feel violated by such actions, even when they don’t have people harassing them. You can’t lecture us and say they don’t. You’re not the arbiter of how other people feel about things, and feeling violated has nothing to do with prudishness. That’s damage and emotional harm, and you hand-waving it away is pretty fucking gross.
I’m not sure if you’re trolling or not here or just lacking empathy.
Imagine a believable image, let alone video, of you with your full name and age on it participating in a burning cross ceremony in a white hood propagating through the internet.
This isn’t just some situation where it stays on a single person’s computer—it gets shared. And is effectively unstoppable.
I’m not claiming of knowing a way to handle this situation, but your comment is really confusing to me that you don’t understand the harms here.
Well this technology is going to make said photos not believable, isn’t it?
So that means it will make all images and videos not believable. That’s serious dystopian shit.
Trust no one. Everything is fake. Nothing is real.
Tbh you’ve got a point despite the downvotes, but there’s a lot of ladies out there that would be very upset with your viewpoint because they still hold onto the Madonna Whore complex
I’d never heard of the Madonna-whore complex, so I looked up. According to wikipedia It’s something held by men, not women. What is your definition?
Ask gay men. It’s certainly a thing, but I don’t think a lot of guys seriously subscribe to the thinking, we’re aware it’s a thing but from my personal experience, I would imagine that most men don’t care or prefer not to define nor judge women so quickly, it’s more like a joke of a thought experiment when you think about it.
That’s why men can share women, but will argue over property like who drives the car, but will still spit roast a woman if they’re down for it. Also nobody knows why.
