A mother and daughter are advocating for better protections for victims after AI-generated nude images of the teen and others were circulating.

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.

  • @[email protected]
    14•1 year ago

    DARE is known as a bad program, because it goes for fear mongering rather actual education. Everyone knows someone who uses marijuana, and they’re teeth haven’t all fallen out and they’re haven’t turned into a psychotic murderer. [VOX - Why anti-drug campaigns like DARE fail

    ](https://www.vox.com/2014/9/1/5998571/why-anti-drug-campaigns-like-dare-fail)

    There are good and bad ways to go about education. Like comprehensive sex education vs abstinence only, even though they’re covering the same topic, actual education is much more effective than just say no. [NLM Abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education study

    ](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18346659/)

    • @TheOneWithTheHairEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      That was my point. DARE didn’t stop drug use. Any education will persuade some. However, unless the students and their families buy in at 100%, this problem isn’t going away.

      About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills according to a Gallup analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education. This means more than half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 (54%) read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.

      https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy

      The starkest differences were seen by education group. Returning to the first question given above, in many countries adults with a “low” level of education (the equivalent of completing secondary school) had less than a 50% chance of getting the question correct. In places like Canada and United States, this fell to as low as 25%.

      https://phys.org/news/2018-03-high-adults-unable-basic-mathematical.html

      Education alone is not going to make this go away.

      • @[email protected]
        4•1 year ago

        I 100% agree that education alone will not resolve the issue, but I believe education can help the efficacy of other approaches.

      • @[email protected]
        1•1 year ago

        I did a report on the dangers of LSD when I was young.

        I learned it’s impossible to overdose on and nobody has died directly as a result of it.

        I had never been so interested in trying something out. “Okay so the world becomes crazy for 4-8 hours and you see crazy stuff and everything is hilarious and you can’t die at all and all you gotta do it be in a comfy set and setting”

        God damn, Imma clean out a vial and watch Enter the Void

        Quick edit: staring at my MacBook Pro turned into fractals and it’s just fucking anodized aliminium wtf that’s cool