• Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    Middle schoolers passing around deepfakes nudes

    I have no data to confirm this but I’d wager it’s disproportionately kids using that kind of stuff. I think the vast majority of adults who want to look at some titties or whatever are perfectly happy cranking it to one of the millions of freely available pictures and videos out there.

    Hell, last month I had to factory reset some kid’s phone because they downloaded some “undressing app” that obviously turned out to be malware. I’ve helped adults and seniors with their tech before and they do dumb shit too but I’ve never seen one do that.

    These kids need sex ed and tech aid. It’s one thing for a teenager to undress Jessica from history class in their mind, but it’s an entirely different one to download some dubious app and provide it with pictures of Jessica for it to effectively produce CSAM

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      20 hours ago

      You know, I’d argue it’s hard to stop kids from doing that privately. If they want to use some local model to undress Jessica from history class, for only their eyeballs… well, that genie is out of the bottle unless we take everyone’s computers away.

      Morally, I’d argue it’s similar to using their imagination.


      Now, where it crosses another line is spreading those nudes.

      Or even worse, selling them.

      No one should be allowed to make money off that. Not the financial processors that facilitate it if they “buy” an undressing service, not the social media platforms that advertise it to them in the first place; they should all be crushed to dust with liability. And kids should get in deep trouble if they pass it around, just like they would if they ripped Jessica’s clothes off in broad daylight.

      This is what I’m getting at. It’s the platforms that are negligent, here. If some real-world platform was facilitating it in this way, the owners would be in prison.