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Offline Kamaji

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Deepfake Pornography Reveals Yet Another Risk Posed By Artificial Intelligence

If artificial intelligence is to be integrated into our society, we have to prevent things like deepfake pornography.

BY: SAMUEL MANGOLD-LENETT
FEBRUARY 08, 2023

At the end of January, popular Twitch live-streamer Brandon Ewing — better known as Atrioc — was exposed in a now-deleted post online for allegedly patronizing a pornographic website that specialized in the production of “deepfakes” of online personalities, many of whom were his colleagues on Twitch and his personal friends.

Atrioc was accused of consuming pornography of his colleagues and friends that was generated through artificial intelligence (AI) technology without these individuals’ consent. In an apology stream, Atrioc admitted to the accusations and said he found the source of the deepfakes through advertisements on another porn website. He also admitted he was paying for videos in which AI was used to superimpose the likenesses of his friends and colleagues onto the bodies of pornographic actresses.

The resounding uproar online, originating with a video of Atrioc’s apology that has amassed millions of views, does appear to be justified. After all, he willfully solicited and consumed pornographic content in which the essence of his personal friends and his business partners was stolen and exploited.

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The recent development of using AI technology to create pornography of individuals without their awareness or consent is an incredibly pernicious phenomenon. Some online refer to it as a form of “free speech” and suggest its existence isn’t doing harm since the people pictured in the videos are often public figures who are only having their likenesses nonconsensually grafted onto sexual content and are not forced to actually participate in nonconsensual activity.

In some ways, the advent of deepfake pornography is akin to “revenge porn.” But revenge porn, the nonconsensual leaking of sexual materials in order to humiliate and exact revenge upon someone while using prior consent and intimacy as the genesis of this content, largely involves humans exploiting their past interactions with other humans.

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/08/deepfake-pornography-reveals-yet-another-risk-posed-by-artificial-intelligence/

Offline Kamaji

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Deepfake pornography is one of the more obvious - and salacious - risks, but the risks of deepfake videos generated by AI go much deeper than that.  Imagine if a grainy video purporting to show Donald Trump taking money from a known Russian official had started circulating online in 2016, or at any time during his presidency.

Video could become entirely worthless as a record of controversial events.

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Deepfake pornography is one of the more obvious - and salacious - risks, but the risks of deepfake videos generated by AI go much deeper than that.  Imagine if a grainy video purporting to show Donald Trump taking money from a known Russian official had started circulating online in 2016, or at any time during his presidency.

Video could become entirely worthless as a record of controversial events.

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And it probably should be banned as "proof" of anything.
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