Deepfakes

[Jazzy]

Since the 2023 school year kicked into session, cases involving teen girls victimized by the fake nude photos, also known as deepfakes, have proliferated worldwide, including at high schools in New Jersey and Washington state.

Local police departments are investigating the incidents, lawmakers are racing to enact new measures that would enforce punishments against the photos’ creators, and affected families are pushing for answers and solutions.

Unrealistic deepfakes can be made with simple photo-editing tools that have existed for years. But two school districts told NBC News that they believe fake photos of teens that have affected their students were AI-generated.

AI technology is becoming more widely available, such as stable diffusion (open-source technology that can produce images from text prompts) and “face-swap” tools that can put a victim’s face in place of a pornographic performer’s face in a video or photo.

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IMO, Don't throw thousands of accessible pictures on social media and the AI won't have anything to go off of. These girls don't deserve this treatment and AI is a threat, but reality is reality. The more pictures available, the worse this problem becomes.

What's your opinion of the deepfakes?

 

[Lamb]

If we had harsher laws (with other countries joining in), then it could prevent some of those from happening.

 

[tango]

To produce deepfake video you'd probably need more than a single image or two.

I remember back in the 90s every once in a while there would be pictures floating about the internet that claimed to be famous people wearing less than might be expected, and most of them were very bad Photoshop jobs. You could literally see the lines where the famous person's head had been superimposed on the original image.

The trouble with a lot of ideas with containing information is that it's all but impossible to stop other people from making information public. I can avoid posting pictures of myself but I don't have to go very far before someone will have captured me on a video camera, and there's nothing I can do to control what they might do with the video.