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So long as you don't use your consent as an assumption to assume others do/should consent, then sure, great, cool, whatever. Can't help but notice your lack of pictures on your account so seems more like theoretical thing as opposed to something someone could choose to do against you.
But schools are literally being blackmailed with deep faked photos of their students. I'm infinitely more concerned for those boys and girls wellbeing that a handful of famous folk with Lawyers and PR teams.
I'm happy to provide a picture if you think making some deep fakes would make you feel better. Also, as I said, people are allowed to be upset by whatever they choose. If deep fakes of you exist and that upsets you then feel free to rage about it all you like. I don't see the point in feeling anything more than annoyed at having to explain that the pictures are fake but, again, that's just me.
Gonna recommend you look for reports of people who feel differently from you on this, read their stories and emotional accounts of going through this, with some empathy.
I understand the logic of it just fine. Disagreeing with the response is not a sign of a lack of empathy. I've said repeatedly that people can feel how they want. I find it ironic that those of you purporting to be open minded are the ones trying to control how others feel about this topic.
The fact you think this is only about people's feelings and not the material reality of bullying speaks volumes. Then you go onto gaslight people over your lack of awareness of the situation. Please share this encounter with your therapist or find a therapist before I start decoding your projections for the internet to see.
There it is again. "Don't act like you're right and others are wrong" doesn't work as a prescriptive when you're doing exactly that in your replies.
Why is it so important to you that I think about things the same way you do? You're tossing out every derogatory pop-psychology term you can think of in an effort to make me conform to your way of thinking and yet I'm supposed to believe that you're the empathetic one. I don't think so buddy. Get over yourself.
Im not going to bully you to prove the fact that bullying works. You do that well enough on your own.
Now I'm bullying you? You've the lost the plot hard man
Then stop this trolling. No one cares if you personally wouldn't be hurt by something that is actively hurting untold number of women and children. Your personal opinion was never the topic of discussion.
Except there are probably pictures that could be created and made available to your friends and family that you might not feel so comfortable with, and ones that are realistic that others may not be convinced are fake. Maybe pics of you fapping in your restroom at work or pics of you involved in beastiality. Distributed amongst your coworkers, family, social group or church members and then you're fighting for your job or struggling with the fact that some friends or family don't seem100% convinced it's fake and you suffer consequences.
Maybe you don't care, just like you might not care if people take pics of you through you're bedroom window, but that doesn't mean people should be free to do it without your consent first.
I didn't say they should be free to do it. I said the only part of that situation you can control is your own reaction. If people don't believe you when you say they're fake then those people are assholes just like the people who made the fakes. That doesn't mean you should spend your time being upset by it all. That's the goal of the people who did it.
This isn't situationally different than people spreading rumors about you. Those you care about should believe you when you say it isn't true. If they don't then you have a problem that's not related to the situation you find yourself in.
Toss a pic up here then so we can make some deep fakes.
Here you go. Be sure to share any good ones
I want you to imagine that I edited this image so it appeared to show you sexually abusing children. And later this week you get called in to HR to say you're being let go. Would they belive you when you said it was fake?
Would your wife? Would your parents? Do your parents even understand what deep fake is? Would they wonder if this was an elaborate excuse?
Would your kids understand? Would your kids friends? Would their friends parents believe you? What if the way you found out they believed it was real was when your kids friends are no longer allowed to sleep over Would those parents even take your call so you can explain it was fake?
Would your kids teachers?
Would your own friends believe you? Would your friends let you be around their kids? How much would they be willing to risk that you're "probably" telling the truth and that it's "probably" fake? I could even tailor the image to you abusing your friends children. Thosse friends wouldn't check in with you first, they'd have a terrible conversation with their own kids.
Would your wife keep believing you when your family is socially ostracized? Do you think you would only ever have 1 conversation about it? Would you still want me to send you a "good one"? What if I kept making burner accounts and never stopped sending good ones to your friends, family and coworkers?
You can say I personally am an asshole, and I would be, but that doesn't change the harm a deranged person could do with zero expertise, zero access to you IRL and take all of 30 seconds of effort to create the image. Starting a whisper rumor about you would take substantially more effort and access.
People SWAT strangers just because they lost a game.