Italy prime minister Giorgia Meloni seeks €100,000 damages over deepfake porn videos
Italy prime minister Giorgia Meloni seeks €100,000 damages over deepfake porn videos
Giorgia Meloni will testify at a court in the Sardinian city of Sassari in a bid to send a message about the problem
Giorgia Meloni will testify at a court in the Sardinian city of Sassari in a bid to send a message about the problem
Italy’s prime minister is seeking €100,000 (£85,374) in damages after deepfake pornographic videos of her were shared on the internet.
‘Deepfakes’ are images or videos where the face of one person, in this case Giorgia Meloni, is digitally put onto the body of another.
Two men accused of making the videos, a father and son aged 74 and 40, are being investigated.
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The risk of a Streisand effect here is pretty high. Hope she's thought it through.
Regrettably, were going to see more and more apps and websites that just automate this kind of abuse.
It'll be sold as a new way to watch porn. Just upload a few pics of your crush and check the boxes for which acts you want to see, and boom, you're downloading it.
It's gonna be a wild ride for a while, no pun intended.
Yeah it's pretty messed up, not fair for anyone to experience this whether it's Taylor Swift or this conservative PM.
conservativefascist PMFixed that for you. It's important not to normalize fascism by pretending that it's just your usual possibly somewhat benign conservatism.
Alright. Where do you want to draw the line? At the automation? How do you put that into legislation that wouldn't also ban manual editing methods? What if someone just face swapped & edited every single frame manually? Would even provide a much better result than those "AI" algorithms.
This is just media hysteria.
The historical difficulty is enforceability. That made the usual line "no making money on your creepy idiocy", because once money is involved there are levers of enforcement. Advertising support is one form of making money
Where do you want to draw the line? At the automation? How do you put that into legislation that wouldn't also ban manual editing methods?
One difference is that manual editing methods take some amount of skill and time.
Automated removes that barrier and makes it possible for people to make hundreds/millions of images in little time, in bulk and with no effort or skill.
Manual will be more limited in its abundance (and presumably spread) due to those limits.
The difference is kinda the same. You could've paid someone to photoshop shit too, now you pay for some dubious "AI" services instead of setting them up yourself, which is a major difference in difficulty and would quickly take away the illusion of the whole "AI" magic.
Either way, I don't really care. Let them do it. As long as they don't use it to make money or for things like blackmail or harassment it should be up to them what they jerk off to. I doubt the fascist melon experienced much if any actual damage from that. She literally did not give a shit about the depictions of her as a fascist but somehow some bad deepfake porn videos are crossing the line. Yeah... Right...