White House calls for legislation to stop Taylor Swift AI fakes

Yes, the human body is gross, sex is unnatural and we should all be ashamed.Especially if it's all fake pixels. The only "ew" here is you.

What?

This isn't revenge porn, it's fakes of celebrities.

Something that was done for decades, and one of the biggest parts of early reddit. So it's not "the second" either.

The only thing that's changed is people are generating it with AI.

The ones made without AI (that have been made for decades) are a lot more realistic and a lot more explicit. It just takes skill and time, which is why people were only doing it for celebrities.

The danger of AI is any random person could take some pictures off social media and make explicit images. The technology isn't there yet, but it won't take much longer

I think it's more about the abject danger that unregulated AI replication of noteworthy figures represents to basically everything

Also, revenge porn is illegal in I think every state but South Carolina and even then it might have been banned since I saw that stat

What a braindead take. Both the US and many other intl countries have enacted AI safety and regulation rules, this is an extension of that effort. The idea is to set a precedent for this kind of behavior. They are also looking into how AI is being used for election interference like having AI Biden tell people not to vote.

Everybody cares, just because it’s not all in place day 0 doesn’t mean nobody does

the second it happens to a major celebrity suddenly there's a rush to do something about it.

Bruh this been happening to celebrities for decades.

Honestly, I kind of don't even care. If that's what it takes to get people to realize that it's a serious problem, cool. I mean, it's aggravating, but at least now something might actually happen that helps protect people who aren't megastars.

It absolutely was a problem before and it’s not because Taylor is white. Revenge porn laws aren’t new and AI legislation has been in the works before this popped off.

You also gonna say nobody cared about election interference until an AI recording of Biden told people not to vote?

Just because you weren’t aware doesn’t mean it wasn’t happening

White House used Panic!

It hurt itself in its confusion!

But actually not

AI legislation has been in the works both in the US and intl long before this Taylor shit, this is just an extension of those efforts.

It’s not about rich white people, it’s about serious potential to harm.

Potential harm like election interference: https://www.wired.com/story/biden-robocall-deepfake-danger/

I think it's not feasible to stop or control it, for several reasons -

1. People are motivated to consume ai porn
2. There is no barrier to creating it
3. There is no cost to create it
4. There are multiple generations of people who have shared the source material needed to create it.

We joke about rule 34 right, if you can think of it there is porn of it. It's now pretty straightforward to fulfil the second part of that, irrespective as to the thing you thought of. Those pics of your granddsd in his 20s in a navy uniform? Your high school yearbook picture? Six shots of your younger sister shared by an aunt on Facebook? Those are just as consumable by ai as tay tay is.

You write legislation that bans all three because there is no difference between generating, photoshopping or drawing lewds of someone without their consent.

Banning this on an individual level would be impossible, so you let the platforms that host it get sued.

We have the technology to detect if an image is NSFW and if it includes a celebrity. Twitter is letting this happen on purpose.

The images spread across X in particular on Wednesday night, with one hitting 45 million views before being taken down. The platform was slow to respond, with the post staying up for around 17 hours.

It's hard to pretend it wasn't reported by Taylors fans many time during this time and the moderators didn't know about this image half an hour after it was posted.

If the image is even slightly convincing, it's essentially just defamation with digital impersonation thrown in. Yeah, that might catch photoshop in its net, but you'd need to be a DAMN good artist to get caught in it as well.

The White House is capable of having a position on more than one issue at a time. There also doesn't seem to be a particular bill they are touting, so this seems to be more of a "This is messed up. Congress should do something about it" situation than "We're dropping everything to deal with this" one.

Nice job reading the article, any one of these articles, to actually get context and not just react to headlines.

People are asking about Swift. The government isn't buddying up to her specifically. Swift is only the most famous face of this issue with very focused growth on this.

It’s called setting a precedent bud.

Click on the link, read the article, answer your own question

I'm open to proposals on how to make people willingly not want to do these kinds of things of their own volition.

What do you propose? Keep in mind, we can't even change society so people don't constantly try to kill each other over nothing.

Nah we just need to punish the offenders. Send these kids to juvie for 12 mos for first offense and give it a sexual assault tag.

Y'all need to read the article and stop rage baiting. It's literally a click away.

"Legislation needs to be passed to protect people from fake sexual images generated by AI, the White House said this afternoon."

Only AI fakes of billionaires. They're just admitting that there's a two tiered legal system, and if you're below a certain "value," you will not be protected.

Quick! Stock up on Katy Perry fakes before those get banned aswell