"Thing that everyone said was going to happen happens, but now it's happened to one of our betters so it's news."
Haven't kids been killing themselves over deepfake porn being passed around school for years?
"Thing that everyone said was going to happen happens, but now it's happened to one of our betters so it's news."
Haven't kids been killing themselves over deepfake porn being passed around school for years?
We've been warning about this for years. Now it's too late, especially because the people in power have a vested interest in NOT policing deepfakes.
I think this is similar to the gerrymandering issue where, since only the Republicans have abused it for years, they have had 0 reason to vote for any legislation put up against it.
Now that the D's are doing it, they might consider the risk is higher than the reward with Gerrymandering and say nobody is allowed to do it.
Just gotta start pumpin out gen images of Rs for them to reconsider their stance.
To be clear, I am very against AI gen images. But, like you were saying, I don't see any reason for them to take any action against it until it affects them.
Excellent comparison! I just fear that the GOP will always be more unscrupulous than the Dems, and so will ultimately always be OK with gerrymandering (or deep fakes, or what have you).
The good (horrible) thing about deepfakes is that pretty much anyone can produce them.
Disclaimer: I am also vehemently against AI-generated garbage, but it is a curious double-standard that the conservatives embrace, which could be easily leveraged against them by many, many pissed off people 🤔
The problem with this theory is that Republicans regularly say truly awful shit and it never sinks their career because their voters are horrible people themselves.
Their voter base is not the most educated, so they are VERY susceptible to misinformation. Also, they have raised their base to be extremely reactionary.
It is not really the politicians these would be aimed at, even though some have very fragile egos and may act solely because it hurts their feefees.
They'll have to be very careful how they legislate gerrymandering. R's can't win in fair elections.
Just make a bunch of deep fake pedophile shit, there's enough links there that an investigation could happen and given they're republican politicians you're pretty likely to find actual pedophilia in doing so.
interest in NOT policing deepfakes
Neither do I. Check sources like they taught you forever in school. Demanding supervision by adult protection services is for bitches.
I don’t see how current laws can’t handle this. Publishing a deepfake is basically libel. It’s the same as if you published an editorial under someone else’s name.
It's kind of upsetting that anyone is shocked or surprised by this.
It's a real worry. I watched a Rachel Maddow video on youtube recently and got several minutes in before I realised it was fake, it was very convincing. How is society going to function when none of us know what's real and what's not?
It’s not exactly functional right now either
I mean, fuck. Watching that sultry little temptress squeeze into a Canadian tuxedo three sizes too small with her bouncy little funbags on the screen staring at you, piercing through the core of your soul with those ocean-blue eyes that could resurrect the Führer from his grave in Argentina, is something that should alarm every American citizen because in America, beauty is not defined by whiteness.
Hard to imagine how they're going to take down deepfakes without limiting freedom of information or how they will prove who made the content.
Well they already have a leg up with the TAKE IT DOWN Act that Democrats worked with Ted Cruz and Trump to get passed.
To my knowledge, that only covers pornographic content.
And the Patriot Act was only implemented to catch terrorists. What's considered "pornographic content" is entirely subjective and up to the personal feelings of a particular judge.
as a victorian from over a century ago, i find anything depicting unclothed ankles to be porn.
There's no judge in the world who could make the leap that this is pornographic.
Looks at judges who have decided any sign of support for Palestine is terrorism
Ah, but with the definition having multiple meanings then can easily make that call.
the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction
So all those things posted online like “food porn,” “travel porn,” etc can be classified as pornography because now we have a definition that isn’t necessarily sexual.
It’s bullshit, but they can still make it the definition used to make their case about why it’s “bad.” GOP is good at using broad strokes to paint their evil.
Similarly, libs hated guns so much, they let the fucking COPS have the right to arbitrarily deny you a gun permit* under so called "may issue" laws.
Yea no fuck that lol. They would just let white people have guns and non-whites seeking a gun for self-defence will be denied because "they look suspicious"
You can never trust the police. Arm yourselved, form a well-regulated militia to protect your community.
*"may issue" laws were in effect in many Democratic jurisdictions until 2022, when, ironically, the fascists on the supreme court struck them down.
Klobuchar will just use this as another rallying cry to tear down Section 230 and make the internet even worse. You can read it yourself, but earlier this year she tried to use a 19 year old ODing on fentanyl he bought off Snapchat as a reason to "... get rid of or reform section 230 ..."
Not sure how that's going to stop people from ODing on adulterated narcotics, but maybe supporting harm reduction and mental health services would be a better use of my tax payer money.
So where is this video? Genuine curiosity, I'd like to see how real it looks
It's this one, although I can't find the original, only the reaction to it.
I mean... Yes, that is what deepfakes are. I am sorry it happened to poor old Amy, and I whish her vulgar, algorythmic doppelganger wouldn't have said awul things but... If this is news to you you might have not be paying attention for a while.
I think this is a good thing. Now there's plausible deniability for anything you might have said in the past that surfaces - that's just a deepfake! Don't cancel me, it's not real.
Yes, what a good thing, the end of consequences and easily proven fact.
We've got a world "leader" who pioneered the end of consequences and showed that easily proven facts weren't worth the bits they were sent over the internet with, so that ship has already sailed.
Enjoy the freedom that comes with never having to answer for your crimes. Kick a puppy. Call someone a slur. Steal a game ball from a kid at the world series.
A president candidate in my country did that (allegedly). A video of him hard as a rock went public. A week later an "even worst" video was released that was obviously fabricated.
Are you sure it isn't fake?
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