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Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort from them, says charity | Internet safety | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Internet Watch Foundation has found a manual on dark web encouraging criminals to use software tools that remove clothing. The manipulated image could then be used against the child to blackmail them into sending more graphic content, the IWF said.

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[+] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We really don't have any solution to this yet.

We do, and always have, but good luck with implementation. Humanity hates acting like an adult.

Critical thinking: society knows to a certainty deepfakes exist and hence should be intrinsically skeptical of any image they see, demanding the image's source establish some reason to trust the image. We could be less blindly trusting.
Body acceptance: for 0 seconds of humanity's history has it made credible sense to shame someone over having seen them naked. We could choose not to.
Competence: Appeasing these people only encourages them. If people would just understand that giving your blackmailer what they want is always strictly worse than not doing so, it would remove the incentive to blackmail. Why would you trust your blackmailer to keep your secret? Makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I agree with everything you said but I don't actually see a solution you've posted. Yes we could grow up and have a more mature view of sex and the human body but that doesn't change the ease of access or manufacturing potentially illegal material right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If we could implement maturity and so on, ease of access to the tools would be a non-issue. And the tools would be as legal as crayons or pencils, and the "material" as legal as any cartoon. But I agree with you that this is a super real practical problem, because we can't.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Bro are you actually advocating for CP right now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I must have misunderstood your post. Can you explain it to me in simpler terms?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Uh.... I'll try.

Society can't be trusted to handle things like adults should. If it could, very well-done drawings of minors depicting them as nude would be a non-issue as blackmail material both because society would just shrug off any such images being published as inconsequential and because minors would be raised to know that cooperating with blackmailers accomplishes nothing productive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Thank you, I understand you now. I still disagree, but I can see where you're coming from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I suggest we send all sex taboo enforcers, to die in prison. At least for as long as it takes for violence to become less acceptable than sex.