Florida middle-schoolers charged with making deepfake nudes of classmates
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The mention at the end that this carries a heftier punishment than revenge porn is pretty interesting. It really does make you think. And the fact that it was Taylor Swift AI images that got lawmakers moving on this is kinda insane. But maybe that's not actually the case, and just a connection being drawn by media outlets who wants Taylor Swift mentioned somewhere in their article for SEO.
Wild as in too extreme or too lenient?
No one was actually harmed by someone creating art.
If someone writes a fictional story where a classmate is a character, or they draw a cartoon, or they paint an oil painting or they use a computer to make digital art, that all has to fall under freedom of expression or we're not really a free country anymore.
Now, if they were trying to fraudulently pass the creations off as real- if they made an image that looked like it was taken by a security camera and said "This is real, I caught person X doing <whatever> and here's the security camera proof" then sure, that's fraud. Or plausibly, the images could have been used in a way which was harassment- if someone glued the picture to a student's locker to try to embarrass or annoy them or whatever, sure then that act is harassment.
But all this panic and pearl-clutching over AI generated images is silly. In 5 years there will be AI-nudes of everyone and we'll all collectively shrug it off and go about our days and laugh at the luddite prudes of yesteryear.
Why is it an act of harassment to put them up if it's not am act of harassment to produce and distribute them?
I also don't agree with your final assertion at all, I think we're in for a world of hurt here.
I'm curious if 10 days is too lenient too.
Just to point out, that's a deadly weapon.
And "a kid at school with a deadly weapon" has led to tragedy many times over the past decade(s).
Sexual harassment is never a prank.
Suspension isn't a punishment for the kid, it's to remove them from disturbing other children.
Though, personally, it'll be interesting to see what crime was committed in the making of the content. To me this sort of behavior isn't unexpected. It's yet another example of technology outpacing geriatric capacity.
If there was something bad commited here then the legal system should be able to hand out punishment for "revenge porn" or sexual harassment, or whatever they feel fits the crime.
But suspension is not punishment. Shitty kids will still see this as extra holiday to cause trouble elsewhere.
Suspension is a punishment only in that it removes them from the environment so they cannot harm others. The legal system will need to be involved. All of that said, these kids seem to be quite young. I doubt much will actually happen to them legally - and that's probably fine. As long as the kids learn their lesson and never do it again. I hope this also is used as a teaching moment for everyone that we now need to contend with images that are created not only of adults but of children.
How would they learn that, if they just got a few days off school?
Does Florida have teaching centres for kids excluded from their normal schooling?
In the UK we have CPNs and ASBOs for 10+ who do things wrong, such as graffiti or potentially this, which would involve court mandated support groups or community service. Knowing that as a society, we don't accept this behaviour would be much better than a suspension which would imply that society doesn't care, just school.
Finally the best use case for AI. Who needs the real world when you can fake it ? /s
Next we need the Matrix.