Julia, 21, has received fake nude photos of herself generated by artificial intelligence. The phenomenon is exploding.
“I’d already heard about deepfakes and deepnudes (…) but I wasn’t really aware of it until it happened to me. It was a slightly anecdotal event that happened in other people’s lives, but it wouldn’t happen in mine”, thought Julia, a 21-year-old Belgian marketing student and semi-professional model.
At the end of September 2023, she received an email from an anonymous author. Subject: "Realistic? “We wonder which photo would best resemble you”, she reads.
Attached were five photos of her.
In the original content, posted on her social networks, Julia poses dressed. In front of her eyes are the same photos. Only this time, Julia is completely naked.
Julia has never posed naked. She never took these photos. The Belgian model realises that she has been the victim of a deepfake.
This type of filtering by an information authority is extremely stupid, it is the next step in neo feudalism. Taking away people’s freedom of information is systemic stupidity. It is eroding everything it means to have a democracy and citizenship. You are selling your autonomy in so many ways. You fail to see the future implications. It is so asinine, I sincerely hope the admins check into IP addresses of people posting this stuff to look for psyops patterns like multiple accounts from a single IP. This is insanely stupid.
If you post stuff publicly, that is on you. What people do with it is up to the public. This is not about some damn pictures. This is about stripping away your citizenship and what that means because you are too ignorant to appreciate it, stupid people jump on the pitchfork train, and intelligent people just roll their eyes.
Question anything anti AI right now because a criminal billionaire is doing everything he can possibly pay for to control the technology of the next decade. This is bill gates 2.0. This is farmed propaganda and Russian style convenient idiot nonsense.
Yeah, sorry - I disagree on every level with your take.
I am also convinced that at least the LLMs will soon destroy themselves, due to the simple fact that “garbage in, garbage out”.
You used 5 accounts to vote for your own nonsense.
Where did it say anything about a Ministry of Truth deciding what can be posted online? Making it illegal and having a 3rd party decide if every post is allowed are two very different things
If it’s illegal then there are ramifications for the platform, the user posting it, and the tool that created it.
Content moderation is already a thing so it’s nothing new. Just one more thing on the list to check for when a post is reported
Depends on the scale. If you’re a black man in the South in 1953, having a 3rd party decide whether you can do something means you can’t do that thing.
I’m not speaking to this particular topic, just saying in general 3rd parties can be corrupted. It’s not a foolproof solution or even always a good idea.
I agree. It’s a terrible idea for many reasons. The fact that we can’t trust something like that to run in good faith is among the top of those reasons.
The comment I was responding to was saying this proposed law would strip our ability to speak out mind because it would create a new 3rd party group that would validate each post before allowing them online.
I was pointing out that making specific content illegal is not the same as having every post scrutinized before it goes live.
Once it starts and precedent is set, it always trends into the worst possible outcome. How is that special WW2 income tax measure working out. They ready to repeal that one yet. Trusting human government is imbecilic.
Well, you’re about 20 years too late. It has already started
See any of the tor sites for examples of what is currently filtered out of the regular internet. It even gets your google account permanently banned if you log in via the tor browser