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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) by darnkitten on Wednesday January 31 2018, @08:33PM (2 children)
Nah. It's more fun (or scores you more points with the bullies/in-group) to believe or to pretend to believe anything facetious, salacious or malicious about the target(s)--gossip is social currency in schools (also small towns or organizations), and the worse the better.
It's often worse in schools, because teens tend to be hyper-focused on peer attention and opinion, and don't yet have the working filters which would allow them to disregard unrealistic rumors coming from peers which affect them personally.
(Score: 2) by pdfernhout on Thursday February 01 2018, @02:06AM (1 child)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/resilience-bullying/200907/free-website-manual-saves-life-bullying-victim [psychologytoday.com]
Free Manuals: https://bullies2buddies.com/resources/free-manuals/ [bullies2buddies.com]
The biggest challenge of the 21st century: the irony of technologies of abundance used by scarcity-minded people.
(Score: 2) by darnkitten on Thursday February 01 2018, @11:40PM
Thanks for the info and links--I am interested in various strategies for anti-bullying.
Have you used these techniques yourself? How do they stack up against some of the other anti-bullying programs out there? Have you used any of those as well?
Thanks!