ominouslemon

You don't know the Verge, perhaps

This is just a good news and they are reporting it as such

The time / effort here is very similar, both methods have their own quirks that make them better or worse than the other, both methods however are very fast and very easy to do.

You're lying to yourself and you must know that, or you're just making false assumptions. But let's go through this step by step.

Now with a "nudify" app:

• install a free app
• snap a picture
• click a button
• you have a fake nude

Before:

• snap a picture
• go to a PC
• buy Photoshop for $ 30.- / month (sure) or search for a pirated version, dowload a crack, install it and pray that it works
• find a picture that fits with the person you've photographed
• read a guide online
• try to do it
• you have (maybe) a bad fake nude

That's my fist point. Second:

the result should just be ignored as far as personal feelings go

Tell it to the girl who killed herself because everyone thought that her leaked "nudes" were actual nudes. People do not work how you think they do.

You don't need special laws to file for harassment or even possible blackmail. This whole thing is just overblown fake hysteria and media panic because "AI" is such a hot topic at the moment

True, you probably don't need new laws. But the emergence of generative AI warrants a public discussion about its consequences. There IS a lot of hype around AI, but generative AI is here and is having/will have a tangible impact. You can be an AI skeptic but also recognise that some things are actually happening.

In a few years this will all go away again because no one really cares that much and real leaked nudes will possibly even declared a deepfake to confuse people.

For this to happen, things will have to get WAY worse before they get better. And that means people will suffer and possibly kill themselves, like it's already happened. Are we ready to let that happen?

Also we're talking only about fake nudes, but if you think about the fact that GenAI is going to spread throughout every aspect of our world, your point becomes even more absurd

You could do everything before, that's true, but you needed knowledge/time/effort, so the phenomenon was very limited. Now that it's easy, the number of victims (if we can call them that) is huge. And that changes things. It's always been wrong. Now it's also a problem

I can't tell you if you should read William Gibson instead, but I can definitely tell you that you should read William Gibson

Holy crap I did not know that! This is huge

It never went away

BNPL ("buy now, pay later") is definitely amongst the worst problems

She is a damn fine businesswoman. She was able to use social media to have a relationship with her followers and build a large audience. That's one of the main reasons she became famous.

Also, there have been a couple of situations that benefited her fame, such as the Kanye incident

Podcasting uses RSS in general, yes!

I don't know what client you're using, but Inoreader usually finds the RSS feed even if the webpage does not link to it

YES