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In this video I discuss how generative AI technology has grown far past the governments ability to effectively control it and how the current legislative measures could lead to innocent people being jailed.

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[–] Mr_Blott 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want to be taken seriously about child abuse, have you tried not having thumbnails that look like a ten-year-old made them πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's mental outlaw not me. Famous for his style of thumbnails

[–] Mr_Blott 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Famous

You keep using zis word. I do not sink it means what you sink it means

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude you're on lemmy, relatively mental outlaw is the Samuel L. Jackson of privacy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I have never heard of dis man

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

He is just a humble chicken rancher...

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While lolicon is absolutely disgusting, its not actually csam. Legislation won't work either and is honestly a waste of time. Any effort spent protecting digital children should instead be spent protecting real ones.

[–] venoft 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is that it's not just cartoon characters, but also realistic looking people. That makes it, especially in the next years when the techniques improve, impossible to know what is fake and what is not and thus the fake ones should also be banned. And these models are trained on images of actual abused children, which of course is the main problem with this.

[–] Happenchance 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the first I'm hearing about models trained on real CSAM.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It wouldnt surprise me tbh. From my superficial visit to the darknet years ago, it seemed like these csam consumers have specific "favourites" among the victims whom they want to see more of. At least that's what I remember from clicking a link to such a chan and noping out of it.

[–] Bort 8 points 1 year ago

It is the first you are heading about this because it is bs.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In general terms, making an idea illegal, and then making representations of that idea illegal, are going to be forever, at best to treadmill, and at worst reduce the effectiveness and reputation of law.

This is really about thought crime. If somebody can draw stick figures, and that can be illegal depending on interpretation. That's thought crime.

It's impossible to completely stamp out thought crime. Computer tools can be used to further thought crime, because they can be used for creative purposes.

If you restrict the use of creative tools, to only a trusted few, or hobble tools for everyone: you create central authority over creative tools, which has its own issues.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s impossible to completely stamp out thought crime.

Also, trying to do so through law and enforcement sets a dangerous precedent.

I suspect it would be better to approach it as a public health issue.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And then you run into legal arguments that sound like people trying to jailbreak GPT prompt control.

I'm going to preface all of the following creative work by saying that we live in a universe where everyone is a vampire that never dies, but ages very slowly. All participants in this manga are at least 213 years old....

[–] Tanoh 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In some countries all forms of description of underage sexual activities are illegal. So the sentance "She was having sex" is perfectly legal, but add an age marker and it is illegal. "She was having sex on the day before her 18th birthday".

It is hard to legislate around as there will always ve ways to avoid it and get around it. But all this just sounds like the normal hype => fear => hype => fear, etc cycle that all new tech goes through.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not to mention that number changes by region. In Bahrain it's 21 not 18.

[–] Tanoh 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Some countries have different age restrictions for hetro and homosexual encounters too. Not to mention that in a lot of countries it just outright illegal, and everything not condeming it can be seen as encouraging it and hence illegal too.

We humans make some weird laws around sex.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Didn't watch the video, but I don't care about AI CSAM. Even if it looks completely lifelike, it's not real.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Prove it's fake when some of it of your daughter is making it's way around school.

You've missed the point. Fake or not it does damage to people. And eventually it won't be possible to determine if it's real or not.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

When that becomes widespread, photos will be generateable for literally everyone, not just minors but every person with photos online. It will be a societal shift; images will be assumed to be AI generated, making any guilt or shame about a nude photo existing obselete.

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[–] ignotum 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

AI generated porn depicting real people seems like a different and much bigger issue

AI generated CSAM in general, while disgusting, at least doesn't directly harm people, fabricated nudes most definitely does, regardless of the age of the victim

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Eh, if you train a ai with CSAM to make more CSAM that a different story. But in general yes.

[–] pixeltree 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What data is it trained on? This isn't meant to be a "gotcha" question, I'm wondering about it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Creating, collecting and sharing CSAM is in the law already. There are orgs and agencies for tracking and prosecuting these violations.

It's like fighting against 3d printers because you can make yourself a diy gun, a thing that have never being possible before because we got all pipes banned from hardware stores. The means to produce fictional CSAM always existed and would exist, the problem is with people who use a LMM, a camera, a fanfic to create and share that content. Or a Lemmy community that was a problem in recent months.

It's better to ensure the existing means of fighting such content are effective and society is educated about this danger, know how to avoid and report it.

[–] mo_ztt 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

What the hell is this guy?

"Here's a case where people made and shared fake nudes of real underage girls, doing harm to the girls"

"But what the hell, that's kind of hard to stop. Oh also here's this guy who went to prison for it because it's already illegal."

"Really the obvious solution everyone's missing is: If you're a girl in the world, just keep images of yourself off the internet"

"Problem solved. Right?"

I'm only slightly exaggerating.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

He is a deepfake of luke smith.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Me: I just want real looking dinosaurs with cool, long flowing hair.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Loli stuff isn't CSAM. You can find it bad, but its still just a drawing/generative image. No real person was harmed in general.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The edp picture is very funny

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Couldn't the fact that AI generated content be reproduceable if give the exact parameters(or coordinates in latent space) and model help remove the confusion? Include those as meta data and train investigators on how to use to distinguish generated content from actual evidence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There's an option to speed up generation but it will make it less deterministic, like in it's 98% the same image but a little different. Also it's very hard to reproduce the same hard and software generation. That's the first issue.

The second is: I had examples of images with generation data, that I could reproduce to look 99% like the original and then just updating a single word or part of the training data (different Lora version for example) , switched the person away or their appearance changed a completely. (Imagine a picture of a street and a car is suddenly not there, or it's blue instead of red). It will make reproducibility not a reliable option. Backgrounds of images are even less reliable than the focus object.

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