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Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up (19thnews.org)
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Schools and lawmakers are grappling with how to address a new form of peer-on-peer image-based sexual abuse that disproportionately targets girls.

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 49 points 1 day ago (62 children)

Honestly I think we need to understand that this is no different to sticking a photo of someone's head on a porn magazine photo. It's not real. It's just less janky.

I would categorise it as sexual harassment, not abuse. Still serious, but a different level

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I hope it might lead to a situation of dirty pics/vids not being a problem for the people in it any more, as it could be a deepfake. Like there were cases where a surfacing dirty pic was used for blackmail, ruined someones career or got them kicked out of some comittee, but since it could be fabrication now, I hope this will beva thing of the past, soon.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That could be a socially healthy place to end up at. I don't see it anytime soon though. Just look at the other response I got.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Sure. That might end up being a socially healthy place for adults to end up.

But it will never work that way for young teens. Their brains aren't done baking yet. They don't have the emotional maturity to understand that enough to be "okay with it because it's just a fake".

That's why we protect kids rather than just telling them "hey it's okay...it's only a fake."

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Anyone with half a brain will certainly claim as much. Even if people don't fully believe it, it will blunt the most serious of social consequences.

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