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.
Not if it comes with normalising the behaviours these boys are showing.
If nudity wasn’t a big deal, it wouldn’t even occur to them to harass girls with fake nudes, and nobody would care if they tried.
They could still do it for self-gratification. And the problem in that is objectifying other people.
Regardless of whether or not they would still do it when nudity was something humans didn’t have emotions over, it would still be wrongdoing against another person. That’s the problem that has to be tackled.
I don’t think it’s less realistic than removing emotions about nudity in people.
I’m saying it would be like distributing photos of their hands. Just not a big deal to anyone.
And there are certainly examples of cultures where nudity isn’t considered a big deal at all, so it’s not like I’m suggesting something farfetched or contrary to human nature. The ancient Greeks for one example, or Northern Europeans any time they go to a bath house or sauna. In ancient Egypt children under 6 didn’t wear clothes at all in warm weather. I recall seeing a documentary as a kid about an Amazon tribe where nobody wore clothes.