Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school
Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school
arstechnica.com
Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school
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Title is misleading?
An AI-generated nude photo scandal has shut down a Pennsylvania private school. On Monday, classes were canceled after parents forced leaders to either resign or face a lawsuit potentially seeking criminal penalties and accusing the school of skipping mandatory reporting of the harmful images.
Classes are planned to resume on Tuesday, Lancaster Online reported.
So the school is still in operation.
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Shut down for one day at least.
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Arstechnica doesn't cite its sources? All it has are links to more Arstechnica articles.
The above article says,
In the US, the feds are currently testing whether existing laws protecting kids against abuse are enough to shield kids from AI harms.
..but doesn't cite any sources. There's an embedded link, back to Arstechnica. What the fuck?
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In the article refers to "cops" and "feds". The overall tone of the writing sounds like a high school student wrote it.
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Nobody was “abused” this is out of hand. suspend the kid or whatever that did it, some kind of school punishment, but jail? And lawsuits over some ai images? Crazy.
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The lawsuit was about the fact the school knew for months about the problem and did nothing to address it. If they plausibly couldn't know, it wouldn't have been their fault but this was reported to the admin repeatedly and they did nothing.
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Exactly this, and rightly so. The school's administration has a moral and legal obligation to do what it can for the safety of its students, and allowing this to continue unchecked violates both of those obligations.
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Is in-person harassment not abuse anymore?
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researchers concluded that "outlawing all deepfakes is unrealistic and unfeasible"—especially since all the harmful AI-generated images that are already out there are likely to "remain online indefinitely."
Just think a little bigger:
It must be a crime to have the harmful material.
Have it on your PC or phone —> goto jail.
Have it in your online account —> goto jail.
Be a service provider and have it on your server —> goto jail.This will reduce the stuff.
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yuppp, exactly like in North Korea.
nice !
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This will also make it trivial to target someone and have them sent to jail. I could literally post an image, right now, and it would be on your current device. Using your logic, you’d be liable and on your way to jail.
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You really haven't thought this through. What happens if I email you a bunch of illegal pictures? Guess we're both going to jail.
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Oh but I don't need to think too much through it. It is pretty much the legal situation in Germany (and probably several other European countries). There may be some edge cases that I don't know.
Of course, if you send stuff to me, then you are the first of the evil ones :) and if I can convince the judge that I did not know and did not want (!) the stuff (and by the way, how did they even know about it? Even before I had the chance to delete it?), there will be room for a reasonable decision.
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I have mixed feelings about this prosecution of ai deepfakes.
Like obviously people should have protection against becoming a victim of such and perpetrators should be held accountable.
But the line “feds are currently testing whether existing laws protecting kids against abuse are enough to shield kids from AI harms” would be a incredibly dangerous precedent because those are mostly designed for actual physical sex crimes.
As wrong as it is to create and distribute ai generated sex imagery involving non consenting people it is not even remotely as bad as actual rape and distributing real photos.
I don't think you're on the right track here. There are definitely existing laws in most states regarding 'revenge porn', creating sexual media of minors, Photoshop porn, all kinds of things that are very similar to ai generated deep fakes. In some cases ai deepfakes fall under existing laws, but often they don't. Or, because of how the law is written, they exist in a legal grey area that will be argued in the courts for years.
Nowhere is anyone suggesting that making deepfakes should be prosecuted as rape, that's just complete nonsense. The question is, where do new laws need to be written, or laws need to be updated to make sure ai porn is treated the same as other forms of illegal use of someone's likeness to make porn.
I'm some jurisdictions, public urination can put you on a sex offender registry.
It wouldn't even matter if you're trying to be discreet and just have to go but there's no public washrooms around.
Creating and distributing anything should be legal if no real person suffers during its creation and if it's not intended at defamation, forgery, such things.
Bruh how is creating and distributing a non-consensual nude-ified picture of a young girl not a cause for suffering for the victim? Please, explain that to the class.
Did you just not go to school as a kid? If so, that would explain your absolute ineptitude on this topic. Your opinion is some real "your body, my choice" kind of energy.
Can you share a full-body shot of yourself please? Don't worry, you won't suffer while it gets used to create other content that we'll distribute to your friends, family, classmates, coworkers, etc.
How do you litigate 'intention' in this way?
You would be fine with AI-gen porn images of your teenage daughter being distributed around the internet?