A mother and her 14-year-old daughter are advocating for better protections for victims after AI-generated nude images of the teen and other female classmates were circulated at a high school in New Jersey.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, officials are investigating an incident involving a teenage boy who allegedly used artificial intelligence to create and distribute similar images of other students – also teen girls - that attend a high school in suburban Seattle, Washington.
The disturbing cases have put a spotlight yet again on explicit AI-generated material that overwhelmingly harms women and children and is booming online at an unprecedented rate. According to an analysis by independent researcher Genevieve Oh that was shared with The Associated Press, more than 143,000 new deepfake videos were posted online this year, which surpasses every other year combined.
Boys and men are pretty similar the world over. Some are always going to be creeps who do shit like this, it doesn’t matter what culture they’re in.
So you’re saying they’re criminalizing natural and predictable human behavior
I mean, murder and theft is natural and predictable human behavior under the right circumstances.
Good point.
Nobody said it was natural. Learned behavior reverberates through generations. Especially when it is more than one family that doesn’t frown on such behavior. Cultural norms re-enforce bad behavior as “normal.”
It’s implied when one says that behaviors are the same the world over, spanning cultures and ethnicities.
“They’re just boys being boys, Your Honor!”