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Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Well, this just got darker.

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[+] [email protected] -45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (35 children)

This is a weird one, because while fantasy is fantasy, and doesn't necessarily indicate an intention to act on anything, these people were dumb enough to share these specific fantasies with some random AI porn site. That's got to be an indicator of poor impulse control, right?

That alone should probably warrant immediate FBI background checks, or whatever relevant agencies have jurisdiction for these types of criminal investigations in each user's locality.

Of course, I am saying it's without actually having read any of the chats. So it's possible my opinion would change from "this should be investigated", to summary executions and burn the bodies for good measure... but no way I'm reading those fucking chats.

[–] fubo 81 points 2 months ago (33 children)

Just to be clear, are you saying that people should be investigated by the police for fictional stories that they read?

[+] [email protected] -13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I mean, if those stories were made by their prompts and about having sex with children then maybe 🤷‍♂️

I know we need to draw a line about what police can do with that sort of info so it’s not abused, but these people are still sick fucks.

[–] Iceblade02 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now that devices are starting to have built in features with AI automatically combing through all information on them, the idea of this sort of stuff being logged in the first place is concerning.

For instance, should someone prompting an AI to describe them beating up and torturing their boss be flagged for "potentially violent tendencies"? Who decides the "limit" where "privacy" no longer applies and stuff should be flagged, logged and sent off to authorities?

As I see it, the real issue is people being hurt, not text or fictive materials, however sickening they might be.

If the resources invested in spying on people and making databases were instead directed towards funding robust and publicly available psychiatric care I expect that'd be more efficient.