Posted on 01/25/2024 5:14:11 PM PST by Gena Bukin
New York CNN — Pornographic, AI-generated images of the world’s most famous star spread across social media this week, underscoring the damaging potential posed by mainstream artificial intelligence technology: its ability to create convincingly real and damaging images.
The fake images of Taylor Swift were predominantly circulating on social media site X, previously known as Twitter. The photos – which show the singer in sexually suggestive and explicit positions – were viewed tens of millions of times before being removed from social platforms. But nothing on the internet is truly gone forever, and they will undoubtedly continue to be shared on other, less regulated channels.
Swift’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
Like most major social media platforms, X’s policies ban the sharing of “synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm.”
The company did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.
The incident comes as the United States heads into a presidential election year, and concerns are growing about how misleading AI-generated images and videos could be used to head up disinformation efforts and ultimately disrupt the vote.
“This is a prime example of the ways in which AI is being unleashed for a lot of nefarious reasons without enough guardrails in place to protect the public square,” Ben Decker, who runs Memetica, a digital investigations agency, told CNN.
Decker said the exploitation of generative AI tools to create potentially harmful content targeting all types of public figures is increasing quickly and spreading faster than ever across social media.
“The social media companies don’t really have effective plans in place to necessarily monitor the content,” he said.
X, for example, has largely gutted its content moderation team and relies on automated systems and user reporting.
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Fake photoshops have been around for ages but these new AI-generated deepfakes take it to a whole different level and aren't even comparable. And, of course, like all emerging internet tools, porn is the first place it gets used.
Next, they’ll be showing other shapers of our young female children’s minds and morals like Madonna, desecrating a cross and dressing like a hooker servicing a client, and in satanic promoting skits.
AI-generated images are going to get much worse. I mean, it’s already out there, and since they can so realistic it’ll open a whole realm to pornographers. Pandora’s box has been opened.
The porn industry drives technology.
I have read more than a few articles.
It will be interesting to see who gets sued, and whether successful or not.
The website for hosting likely doesn’t control the AI coding.
What actual person is responsible?
It’s not real, so?...
Gaming and porn.
There’s actually a couple lines of it in Tropic Thunder where the one guy talks about it.
The human race is about at its end. And the speed at which the fall is happening is hyperbolic.
It’s pretty obvious, frankly.
The human race is about at its end. And the speed at which the fall is happening is hyperbolic.
It’s pretty obvious, frankly.
It’s one of the reasons for my tag line.
I didn’t see any links to these pictures/videos to see how realistic they are. Not that I would peek but I’d let my cat look at them and she’d tell me if it was porn or not.
It should be enlightening that this is how humans use a revolution in technology.
They called it “The Information Age” earlier. It is the Age of Imaging. Image generation and, most importantly, recognition.
We will all be wearing Guy Fawkes masks.
She does that normally..............
Yep. And a lot of people have no idea how bad it is. They just assume these are those "celeb fakes" photoshop hackjobs that have been around for ages that are so obviously, laughably fake.
AI is going to be a total order of magnitude difference. Already exists is AI software that can "declothe" any photograph, rendering a very realistic looking nude image. This recently happened at a Middle school in New Jersey where several very underage girls reported that AI deepfake nude pics of them had been in circulation.
And soon we're going to get actual deepfake porn movies that will feature celebrities having sex and they'll look at real as anything filmed.
And it won't be just porn either. We'll get live video of politicians making horribly offensive comments and they'll look and sound real.
We're not going to know what's real and what's fake. On the flip side, somebody doing something really dumb on camera can turn around and say, "That's a deepfake." Nobody will know the difference.
Can’t post them here...
Who wants to see some flat chested snotty blonde? I don’t.
“so realistic it’ll open a whole realm to pornographers”
And to law enforcement who may then arrest innocent people for crimes they didn’t commit.
I didn't want to post any here but there's several on this Twitter thread:
At the time of this post, I didn't see any X-rated deepfakes on that thread but there are examples of where it's going.
Several decades ago I worked with a techie who made several times his corporate salary by working on the side with porn companies (running servers, etc.)
Even further back, I worked with an animation studio, and after hours we’d make extra bucks making the credits for the pornos on 42nd St. We’d have a blast making up fake names.
https://www.businessinsider.com/researchers-at-anthropic-taught-these-ai-chatbots-how-to-lie-2024-1
Researchers at Anthropic taught AI chat bots how to lie, and they were way too good at it.
“We’re not going to know what’s real and what’s fake.”
It is hard enough now to determine the truth, this adds another dimension to the problem.
I am more worried about government using this to take out anyone who challenges them, be it religious or political.
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