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submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] SnotFlickerman 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 6 points 11 months ago
[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If we were talking about someone getting photos of these people nude through their window or similar, I would agree with you, It would be a violation, but that's not what we're discussing.

Feeling violated is not sufficient cause to criminalize this technology. There must be actual harm and I do not believe emotional distress over people looking at facsimiles of a nude photo clears this bar.

If drawing an illustration of someone nude from imagination is not illegal, neither should this be.

“Why would you hide behind clothes? Do you have something to hide?”

AI has no idea what they look like through their clothes, it imagines it based on a data set of other nudes. Deep fakes will never show whatever they want to hide.

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