The modern web has not been without its warts. It's led society to some very unhealthy behaviors. It's telling that a lot of people think the internet is society, rather than a slice of it. Perhaps its decline is the correction society needed.
It's easy to feel like a doomer if you're thinking "it's sad that the web is being torn apart" and your framing of the web is "the magical place of promise it used to be 25 years ago."
Funny that cd's are comparatively analog. (I get your meaning though).
It’s already been tried, when deepfakes weren’t even that good.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/27/elon-musk...
But then again, perhaps we won't and things will just get worse.
The older generation (gen-x) and before has been trained to believe traditional media (and by extension, anything that is published on a "website" and/or forwarded on Whatsapp). Images, pictures etc. add to the authenticity. Of course, it's easier to forward than to investigate and refute.
The younger generation is less influenced by this but also care less about generating and forwarding these. Most of these things are "just a joke". In a weird way, pushing out non-consensual nude of someone is the same as editing someone's face in a group photo with dog ears and sending it to a circle of friends.
I don't know what the solution is but this kind of thing erodes trust. Photographs used to be evidence that can be used to establish trust and we've been culturally conditioned to accept them that way. This takes a sledgehammer to that and it's not easy to untrain a whole society away from a deeply conditioned feeling so easily.
I'm just waiting (with some dread) for the day that you can sync up multiple cameras with AI to fake from different angles.
You will have no compute and you will like it. The top comment here is about arresting the children for distributing child porn.
We really should have kept the normies out.
Cameras cryptographically signing all photos and videos should become the standard. Media that cannot be traced back to real camera hardware should a priori be considered fake or tampered with.
Still, deepfakes are partly a social problem and, as should be well known, social problems can rarely be solved by technological solutions.
I think you meant to say: a single eastern European teenager who gets bored one weekend. These systems have been around for decades, and they've continually been hacked for decades too.
How about we undo the radical individualism that has rotted out any compassion and empathy from society in the pursuit of greed? Not as easy to do granted, but it's a social technical debt that can't be quick fixed.
You sound like you've given up on nurturing humanity and instead want to enforce good behaviour as if the base human condition is to hurt others by default.
These are often young boys behaving in ways that are misogynistic and heartless. Usually following the examples of heartless parents and peers. We can do better. They're kids learning the wrongs lessons about the world.
"make the person in this photo naked. No mistakes"
Prompts lowered the bar. Even if you do have to install a local text to image model.
there are, for example, websites that host (among a myriad other such things) style-accurate pictures of every Disney princess being fucked in every way imaginable. 70 years ago something like this might have caused a similar moral panic, but now no one (rightfully) gives a shit. you see a picture of Cinderella with a dick up her ass, you know it wasn't drawn by Disney.
Theyre not the same thing and you can't just hand wave away people's pain. You're part of the problem.
Since perfect or not people aren't going to stop doing what they do, the fact that the fakes have gotten better is only beneficial since it allows for plausible deniability. At this point nobody should trust some random video the same way nobody has been able to trust a random JPG since photoshop became a thing.
Yes, from a victim impact perspective.
> Before computers people would cut out peoples faces and paste them onto playboy centerfolds. That sure wasn't perfect, but it didn't stop them
The effort did stop them. The problem wasn't even half as widespread. And those who were doing it were keeping it to themselves, the images weren't being auto-shared to Twitter and the targets tagged.
> the fact that the fakes have gotten better is only beneficial
[Victim testimony needed]
> At this point nobody should trust some random video
While there's a qualitative difference in harassment when using media that is either real or fake (clearly or not) the capacity for that media to be used for harassment purposes remains the same.
I hope we don't start getting xkcd fakes.