Spain sentences 15 schoolchildren over AI-generated naked images
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Several reasons:
1) time – a fraction of the time per victim means exponentially many more
2) skill – no photorealistic drawing skill required
3) a live referent – a genuine (here, shockingly genuine seeming) nude photograph implies that someone undressed and let themselves be photographed
4) even in the presence of a referent, a drawing is not a carbon copy ("freeze frame") of a moment in real life, and is proof of nothing
I think there are deeper questions here that can have many adverse consequences. There is no perfect solution here. If you ban the software I'm pretty sure that'll just end up creating a large market for generating this kind of material (there's already a decent market for photo nudifiers and these seem to be advertised in quite a number of places where I'm pretty certain this is already illegal). Spying on people and their outputs is not a great solution either, it is easy to bypass, and generates new security holes that can and will put children at risk too. But also we don't want these types of images to be floating around and it definitely does real harm to the people being nudified.
But what is the solution here? Regulation seems very difficult and I think we should take the question seriously. No matter what we do, there is some compromise. Even inaction compromises. So what are we willing to give up and to reduce the problem by how much?
Sounds like it has absolutely nothing to do with gender inequality and everything to do with a teenager's spiking hormones.
I could see putting it on the kids' permanent record - both police & school - but that's probably of minimal deterrent value for a large fraction of young kidiots*. Not that catching the perp's is any sort of sure thing, either.
It'd be lovely if one could "re-train" youth culture, to greatly reduce the impact/thrill of the crime. I'd guess that that's the only payoff for 98% of perps. But in a world where (by many accounts) kids are often routinely browsing "extreme" porn years before many of their parents are comfortable with them being taught anything more adult than "when a man and a woman love each over very much..." - it's hard to imagine that the school or authorities could actually do that.
(Any thoughts?)
*Yes, like most old men, I was once a young idiot. No offenses remotely resembling this...but that was back in the days when a line-printer-on-green-bar-paper dirty image was still cutting-edge smut.
But giving your kid a magic device so criminals from each coin of the planet have a door that leads directly to your children, is not part of being a parent.
I've no idea - but I figure that adult perps should be treated quite differently from young teens.
That just makes me think of "A Clockwork Orange."
> kids are often routinely browsing "extreme" porn
How do we determine this?
What I've noticed is articles about research into childhood sexual activities - where the kids supposedly self-reported that in response to a survey.
Just read after the headline...