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BreakDecks , 2 months ago to Technology in Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

The pedos out there are using AI to nudity pictures of real kids. That's just going to drive up the demand for creep shots and child model photosets to exploit.

There may be a small percentage of offending pedophiles that switch to pure GenAI over pictures of real kids, but I don't see GenAI ever playing a role in harm reduction given the harm it ultimately enables.

One of the current sickening trends is for a predator to convince a kid to send underwear or swimsuit pics, and then blackmail them into more hardcore photos with nudified versions of the original pics. They're already seeing an influx of that kind of CSAM online, that involves abusing real kids on social media.

I just wish America was less puritanical and taught kids about sex and boundaries to protect them, and that we had a functioning mental healthcare system that directly helps people who experience inappropriate sexuality attractions like pedophilia before they go down these dark paths.

BreakDecks , 2 months ago to Technology in Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort from them, says charity | Internet safety | The Guardian

I want to be happy that the IWF exists and is collecting data about this kind of thing. This is extremely difficult and important work.

But they are also lobbying to ban encryption, arguing that privacy only helps criminals.

Sorry, but if Facebook is too dangerous for kids, instead of banning encryption so the authorities can more easily catch child abusers, let's just ban children from using Facebook before they fall victim to abuse.

BreakDecks , 2 months ago to Technology in Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

We literally have a global rise in violent fascism and multiple ongoing genocides, and TikTok is the worst thing you can think of?

BreakDecks , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Technology in Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

That's kinda why I brought up specific key players and how I consider them complicit. If you don't want AI to be blamed as a whole, you should want those key players to behave ethically, or they'll poison public perception of AI as a whole.

BreakDecks , 2 months ago to Technology in Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort from them, says charity | Internet safety | The Guardian

We could deal with this easily by banning the distribution of porn entirely.

Easily? This would cause riots.

BreakDecks , 2 months ago to Technology in Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort from them, says charity | Internet safety | The Guardian

I mean, it would be nice if demand for sex was just pushing us towards AI VR waifus or something. Let the neckbeards put on a haptic suit and bang all the Evangelian characters or something. Kinda fucked that we're going straight to fully-automated sexual exploitation of kids...

I wish we lived in a cool cyberpunk dystopia instead of the horror show that is present day reality.

BreakDecks , 2 months ago to Technology in Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

Do you want to make it punishable by jail time?

Yes, sex crimes deserve harsh punishments.

How do you prove some anon on 4chan that posts nudes of someone else actually deepfaked it?

It's either deepfaked, or revenge porn. Whichever charge sticks. If 4chan refuses to unmask anons posting illegal content, throw the book at 4chan. Way overdue anyway.

I don't see how this can otherwise be contained.

See previous two answers.

BreakDecks , 2 months ago to Technology in Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

Yeah, let's just sexually violate everyone. /s

Who the hell is upvoting this awful take? Please understand that it would never be equitable. If this became reality, it would be women and girls that were exploited the most viciously.

I guess if you don't give a shit about people, especially women and girls, feeling safe in public at all, you would say something like this...

BreakDecks , 2 months ago to Technology in Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

Generative AI is being used quite prominently for the purposes of making nonconsensual pornography. Just look at the state of CivitAI, the largest marketplace of Stable Diffusion models online. It pretends to be a community for Machine Learning professionals, but behind the scenes it's laying the groundwork for all of the problems we're seeing right now. There's not an actress or female celebrity that doesn't have a TI or LoRA trained on their likeness - and the galleries don't hold back on showing you what these models can do.

At least Photoshop never gained the specific reputation of being a tool for making fake porn, but the GenAI community is leaving no doubt that this is a major use case for image models.

Even HuggingFace turns a blind eye to pornifying models and lolicon datasets, and they're basically the GitHub of AI models...

BreakDecks , 2 months ago to Technology in Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

I logged into my throwaway account today just to check in on it since people are talking about this shit more. I was immediately greeted with an ad featuring hardcore pornography, among the pics of kids that still populate my feed.

I'll spare you the screenshot, but IG is fucked.

BreakDecks , 2 months ago to Technology in Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

This 100%. I can't even bring myself to buy new content for my Quest now that I'm aware of the issues (no matter how much I want the latest Beat Saber and Synth Riders DLC), especially since Meta's Horizon, in my experience, puts adults into direct contact with children. At first I just dismissed metaverse games like VRChat or Horizon as being too popular with kids for me to enjoy it, but now I realize that it put me, an adult, straight into voice chats with tweens, which people should fucking know better than to do. My first thought was to log off because I wasn't having fun in a kid-dominated space, but I have no doubt that these apps are crawling with creeps who see that as a feature rather than a problem.

We need education for parents that sharing pictures of their kids online comes with real risks, as does giving kids free reign to use the Internet. The laissez faire attitude many people have towards social media needs to be corrected, because real harm is already being done.

Most of the parents that post untoward pics of their kids online are chasing down opportunities for their kids to model, and they're ignoring the fact that a significant volume of engagement these photos receive comes from people objectifying children. There seems to be a pattern that the most revealing outfits get the most engagement, and so future pictures are equally if not more revealing to chase more engagement...

Parents might not understand how disturbing these patterns are until they've already dumped thousands of pictures online, and at that point they're likely to be in denial about what they're exposing their kids to, and/or too invested to want to reverse course.

We also need to have a larger conversation, as a society, about using kids as models at all. Pretty much every major manufacturer of children's clothing is hiring real kids to model the clothes. I don't think it's necessary to be publishing that many pictures of kids online, nor is it acceptable to be doing so for profit. There's no reason not to limit modeling to adults who can consent to putting their bodies on public display, and using mannequins for kids' clothing. The sheer volume of kids' swimsuit and underwear pictures hosted on e-commerce sites is likely a contributor to the capability Generative AI models have to create inappropriate images of children, not to mention the actual CSAM found in the LAION dataset most of these models are trained on.

Sorry for the long rant, this shit pisses me off. I need to consider sending 404 Media everything I know since they're doing investigations into this kind of thing. My small scale investigation has revealed a lot to me, but more people need to be getting as upset as I am about it if we want to make the Internet less of a hellscape.

BreakDecks , 2 months ago to Technology in Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

Send 'em to Zuck.

BreakDecks , 2 months ago to Technology in Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

This was from a test I did with a throwaway account on IG where I followed a handful of weirdo parents who run "model" accounts for their kids to see if Instagram would start pushing problematic content as a result (spoiler: yes they will).

It took about 5 minutes from creating the account to end up with nothing but dressed down kids on my recommendations page paired with inappropriate ads. I guess the people who follow kids on IG also like these recommended photos, and the algorithm also figures they must be perverts, but doesn't care about the sickening juxtaposition of children in swimsuits next to AI nudifying apps.

Don't use Meta products. They don't care about ethics, just profits.

BreakDecks , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Self hosted remote storage for VPS?

No shit the VPN requires an open port, I never said otherwise, but if your router is the one running the server, you aren't forwarding the port. The router itself is listening on its WAN interface.

The VPN prevents you from having to forward any ports, because the router allows you to tunnel in. The only open port will be whatever port the VPN server listens on, and it isn't a forwarded port.

Source: I literally work at a VPN company.

BreakDecks , 2 months ago to Technology in Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

Sharing this screenshot again, to drive the point home.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8ffa78b2-7400-4948-9093-a8d20319eaef.jpeg