Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort from them, says charity
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Internet Watch Foundation has found a manual on dark web encouraging criminals to use software tools that remove clothing

Internet Watch Foundation has found a manual on dark web encouraging criminals to use software tools that remove clothing. The manipulated image could then be used against the child to blackmail them into sending more graphic content, the IWF said.

  • norbert@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Pretty sure I remember people saying this kind of stuff would happen as soon as deepfakes started being a thing accessible to the public.

    We really don’t have any solution to this yet. The tech is advancing so quickly at this point; every other month there’s a significant jump in capabilities. I feel like the cat is out of the bag, photorealistic AI images are available to the home user with virtually no technical restrictions or limits and no amount of regulation is going to put the genie back in the bottle.

    • quindraco@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 months ago

      We really don’t have any solution to this yet.

      We do, and always have, but good luck with implementation. Humanity hates acting like an adult.

      1. Critical thinking: society knows to a certainty deepfakes exist and hence should be intrinsically skeptical of any image they see, demanding the image’s source establish some reason to trust the image. We could be less blindly trusting.
      2. Body acceptance: for 0 seconds of humanity’s history has it made credible sense to shame someone over having seen them naked. We could choose not to.
      3. Competence: Appeasing these people only encourages them. If people would just understand that giving your blackmailer what they want is always strictly worse than not doing so, it would remove the incentive to blackmail. Why would you trust your blackmailer to keep your secret? Makes no sense.
      • norbert@kbin.social
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        7 months ago

        I agree with everything you said but I don’t actually see a solution you’ve posted. Yes we could grow up and have a more mature view of sex and the human body but that doesn’t change the ease of access or manufacturing potentially illegal material right now.

        • quindraco@lemm.eeEnglish
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          7 months ago

          If we could implement maturity and so on, ease of access to the toola would be a non-issue. And the tools would be as legal as crayons or pencils, and the “material” as legal as any cartoon. But I agree with you that this is a super real practical problem, because we can’t.

                • quindraco@lemm.eeEnglish
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                  7 months ago

                  Uh… I’ll try.

                  Society can’t be trusted to handle things like adults should. If it could, very well-done drawings of minors depicting them as nude would be a non-issue as blackmail material both because society would just shrug off any such images being published as inconsequential and because minors would be raised to know that cooperating with blackmailers accomplishes nothing productive.