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Schools and lawmakers are grappling with how to address a new form of peer-on-peer image-based sexual abuse that disproportionately targets girls.

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[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aren't there already laws against making child porn?

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd rather these laws be against abusing and exploiting child, as well as against ruining their lives. Not only that would be more helpful, it would also work in this case, since actual likeness are involved.

Alas, whether there's a law against that specific use case or not, it is somewhat difficult to police what people do in their home, without a third party whistleblower. Making more, impossible to apply laws for this specific case does not seem that useful.

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[–] danciestlobster@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I don't understand fully how this technology works, but, if people are using it to create sexual content of underage individuals, doesn't that mean the LLM would need to have been trained on sexual content of underage individuals? Seems like going after the company and whatever it's source material is would be the obvious choice here

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

This is mostly about swapping faces. You take a video and a photo of someone's face. Software can replace the face of someone in the video with that face. That's been around for a decade or so. There are other ways of doing it.

When the face belongs to an underage individual, and the video is pornographic...

LLMs only do text.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Deepfakes might end up being the modern version of a bikini. In the olden days, people wore these to the beach. Having less was scandalous and moral decay. Yet, now we wear much less.

Our grandchildren might simply not give a damn about their nudity, because it is assumed that everyone is deepfaking everyone.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Instead of laws keeping up It also might turn out to be a case where culture keeps up.

[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

If kids want to be protected they need to get some better lobbyists. /s

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