In pursuit of technological innovation, generative AI’s advocates have thrust the tools for highly-realistic, nonconsensual, synthetic forgeries, more commonly known as deepfake porn, into the hands of the Average Joe.
Ads for “nudify” undressing apps may appear on the sidebars of popular websites and in between Facebook posts, while manipulated sexual images of public figures spread as trending fodder for the masses. The problem has trickled down through the online sphere into the real lives of users, including young people. Implicated in it all are AI’s creators and distributors.
Government leaders are attacking the problem through piecemeal legislative efforts. The tech and social sectors are balancing their responsibility to users with the need for innovation. But deepfakes are a hard concept to fight with the weapon of corporate policy.
Explicit deepfakes are traumatic. How to deal with the pain.
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