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The messaging platform Discord has taken down a channel that was being used to share and spread AI-edited pornographic videos:
Last year, a Reddit user known as "deepfakes" used machine learning to digitally edit the faces of celebrities into pornographic videos, and a new app has made the process much easier to create and spread the videos online. on Friday, chat service Discord shut down a user-created group that was spreading the videos, citing their policy against revenge porn.
Discord is a free chat platform that caters to gamers, and has a poor track record when it comes to dealing with abuse and toxic communities. After it was contacted by Business Insider, the company took down the chat group, named "deepfakes."
Discord is a Skype/TeamSpeak/Slack alternative. Here are some /r/deepfakes discussions about the Discord problem.
One take is that there is no recourse for "victims" of AI-generated porn, at least in the U.S.:
People Can Put Your Face on Porn—and the Law Can't Help You
To many vulnerable people on the internet, especially women, this looks a whole lot like the end times. "I share your sense of doom," Mary Anne Franks, who teaches First Amendment and technology law at the University of Miami Law School, and also serves as the tech and legislative policy advisor for the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. "I think it is going to be that bad."
Previously: AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2018, @08:21AM (1 child)
As soon as it leaves you body in a Hospital it is considered 'medical waste' and can be sold to anyone. Read up on Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cell line.
There is a lot of shitty janky shit that is legal in the US. Greatest country we are not, if you take a really impartial view and consider the 9th amendment as important as 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th, as well as the right of people to claim ownership over their likeness and DNA insofar as they haven't legally sublicensed it to a third party via the act of procreation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2018, @11:01AM
You can't copyright your DNA but Monsanto can patent DNA.
Keep going down that path and you might not be able to legally have kids after you sign up for gene treatment.
Unauthorized reproduction and all that ;).
And if you donate organs or similar your modified stem cells might pass the patented DNA to someone else.