Revealed: The names linked to ClothOff, the deepfake pornography app
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However, I feel really bad for those who has to be the ones to go through the pain of this phase though.
Except, of course, it's of huge interest to the target. No different than before.
It kinda seems like we're just hurtling towards a banal dystopia, where everything is hyper-real and everyone is just desensitized anyway. People on the subway just sit there, wearing their AR goggles and undressing everyone else, with their apps' horniness sliders turned up to max and porn sounds leaking out of shitty headphones. That guy across from you is whacking off again, just like last week, and you just groan, walk to the next train, and catch up on that show.
Your kid is called into the principal's office again. The bully posted nudes, so your kid posted even more nudes, with the bully and the principal doing things that someone with your lower-body flexibility never thought possible. You didn't even know that was a fetish. But ugh, not this talk again. Between the faux outrage and the condescending morality talk, they've heard it all a thousand times. It's not like the adults can do anything about it anyway. Can we go home now? This is more embarrassing than the pictures themselves.
Ie, it is for the individual to reject that which is incoherent with the reality that they themselves are. One doesn't have to watch porn, one doesn't have to immerse oneself in the nonsense. Each of us has free will - one doesn't need to choose immoral nonsense, regardless of what the screens say.
Distributing porn of people is quite emotional and a different story. But changing people’s clothes and adding babies seems like something that should bother no one.
But I think some people have their image linked to their identity and it’s a big deal for them.
When I first got a scanner and laser printer in the late 80s, my brother and I scanned a photo of my mom and edited her face onto a Griffin battlemech from the FASA miniature game Battletech (a 55-ton giant robot with guns and missles and stuff basically copied from Robotech).
I printed it out and gave it to her and was pretty proud of how cool it looked. But she burst into tears and was so upset the we would “do that to her.”
Totally different from my intent and expectation and how I would react. This is the first time I realized that people have very different associations of images of them and self identity.
"You're showing too much skin, harlot!"
If it’s done to insult people, and dismiss their bodily autonomy, then yeah, it’s counterculture. There’s nothing wholesome about it. Like “well bless your heart” and “I’ll pray for you”, they’re intended to be insults in sheep’s clothing.
Makes it hard to appreciate any other aspect of it, when the ideology behind it is to degrade other people, unfortunately.
Well, that bug is going to be fixed pretty soon, as AI learns about different body types and how to identify them from clothed images. The bar is pretty low, because the AI-generated image only needs to convince people who haven't actually seen you nude.
Sooner or later, the only way to tell whether a nude image is real or not will be to check if if it accurately reproduces hard-to-guess imperfections in locations that nobody other than your most intimate partner will ever see. Brb, gotta give the kids a cryptographically unique tattoo or something.
Yes, our society is so sick that making a pic more wholesome and removing the graphic semi-nudity is now banned, just like editing Hollywood movies to remove gratuitous profanity, nudity, and violence is illegal under US Copyright Law.
The law should forbid/punish harassment, and children need to learn not to harass.
But the cost of generic-task photo manipulation, like this, is going to zero. We are only one browser “no cloth” plugin away from being able to surf a world of nude people.
Most people are going to take this stuff as seriously as someone drawing horns or a mustache on a picture of them.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/artificial-intellige...
I don’t want the internet to be an over regulated, bureaucratic mess, but the way AI is going, it might just have to be.
Deepfakes, voice clones, extremely sophisticated hacks and phishing…it looks scarier than ever.
(I am using this definition: https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-topics/image-based-abuse/deal....)
But also consider how much changed in the last 18 years. Then think about how much may change before your baby girl is all grown up. You will have plenty of new and different things to worry about.
Ever noticed how difficult it is to take a snapshot where all the people involved don’t have some weird expression on their faces? Well, news media have been abusing snapshots of such “weird faces“ all the time. Tesla stock down? Frowning Elon pic it is!
Let’s not even talk about fashion models or McDonald’s product photography.
AI is now just driving that hole notion ad absurdum to a point where no one can stay naive about it any longer.
It was a good idea, and now it's becoming an even better idea.
And it's not really avoidable I think; your face has been leaked to many places already; you'd have to be quite optimistic to think otherwise.
We know that media outlets want some sort of legislative process that will designate their content as truth (tm), to create a sort of moat from unsanctioned information. To get support for that, you need the stories.
This story reads like investigative journalism, but is it really? The journalism seems self-serving. Real, free investigators would research even the 'good guys' (tm) - eg they would have connected zelensky to the Panama papers or whatever other scandals there are.
It seems the media only research when it is in their favour, and yet we are meant to think they are appropriate handlers of truth. The chutzpah is quite funny.