Sextortionists are making AI nudes from your social media images
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If someone can say "Hey Siri, generate a picture of Alice and Bob fornicating" and get a realistic image, then neither Alice nor Bob ever need to worry about their private photos being hacked, leaked, shared, etc. They can just laugh and say the image is a fake.
It's a huge win for everyone in the long term, the perfect counter to privacy invasion - simply bury any real private information in a mountain of fakes. Oh you think got my medical record, my tax return, my nudes, my private texts, my performance reviews? Which ones? Here's 500 equally plausible alternative versions of all of those.
Come on, it’s not that difficult.
most of the time all you need is replacement model with similar enough body and all you have to do is face swap.
I think that all we need now is something in reverse, generating clothed photos from nude, so in case someone really leaked your nudes you could show them that this is fake from other clothed photo.
In what way would consent be required?
If someone sits in a public park and paints a nude picture with my face on it, do I need to consent? I probably don’t even know it exists. I expect the harm would be greater if a bunch of perverts/artistic souls sought me out and asked consent for things that don’t require my consent.
Or should we require consent before someone dreams of us? Or imagines us?
I’m curious how frequently this happens, but I expect quite a bit. In high school locker rooms, I remember kids talking about pretty much every other student nude, etc etc. Should that require consent? What’s the line? When someone draws it? Or generates it? Or when they distribute it?
I think the legal limit now is based on defamation so the harm is when the fake is presented as real.
Yep, painting a pornographic nude of someone you saw in the park is creepy, weird, disrespectful, and yes you should be called a weird, disrespectful creep for doing it. Should you go to jail? No. Is there a (blurry, hard to define) line between disrespectful nude depictions and respectful ones? Yep.
This service, for example, is clearly geared toward equipping weird, disrespectful creeps.
And I'll take my clothes off and it will be shameless
'Cause everyone knows that's how you get famous
That’s all these things are, just imaginations.
Like by this logic synthesized nudity of real children shouldn’t be a problem, right?
Furthermore, I'd gladly donate bath time photos of myself as a prepubescent child if it means that some unlucky soul who has the misfortune of being born a pedophile can enjoy something he or she might consider sexually gratifying. Something that will keep him or her content instead of seeking non-consenting children IRL. We should all be feeding people like this synthesized (or donated) sexual material. The idea of withholding it for some messed up reason only serves to put innocent children at risk.
I mean the article itself says people are willing to pay extortion money than risk even fictional depictions of their naked bodies.
Maybe its time we reassess our culture...
Seems odd that a picture of someone naked can lead to a loss of their job or social circle. I don't think that's a good thing.
Just a matter of time before the prudes all die off. Progress of this sort tends to be generational... just look at tattoos and weed.
And I wondered if places that require women to wear coverings had the same logic (ie,”if people see too much ankle they can imagine a bare leg”).
My school once got penalized in a cheerleading competition because the uniforms only went over the knees instead of the other teams where it went to their ankles. What was the point as both wore bloomers underneath.
However, I think it’s the idea of stopping people from thinking lascivious thoughts. I think it’s a losing battle as people have great imagination.
I would have a problem if these deepnude sites had X-ray vision or something, but just predicting what someone looks like nude is hard to stop. Can you even make it illegal to imagine someone nude? I think we’ll find out soon in the next 20 years as people start adding “nude mode” to Apple Vision and Teams where all the attractive people appear nude.