The creation of sexually explicit “deepfake” images is to be made a criminal offence in England and Wales under a new law, the government says.
Under the legislation, anyone making explicit images of an adult without their consent will face a criminal record and unlimited fine.
It will apply regardless of whether the creator of an image intended to share it, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said.
And if the image is then shared more widely, they could face jail.
A deepfake is an image or video that has been digitally altered with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to replace the face of one person with the face of another.
It just feels like the wrong approach to me.
Who is to say an image depicts whatever person. Sure a court / jury can try to decide, but I suspect that it’s possible to make deepfakes look enough like the victim to do the damage, while dissimilar enough that there’s reasonable doubt that the depiction was intended to represent the victim.
I feel like society needs to adapt to this. To me, in the age of deepfakes, there shouldn’t be any shame in being depicted in a video, rather the people sharing it and watching it.
Like if someone said they saw a naughty video of me, I don’t really see why I should be ashamed, but I world ask them what the hell they’re doing watching it.
It’s not about shame… like wtf? People’s careers can be affected. In a day and age where corporations request access to all your social media and do extensive background/social media checks it’s likely they may stumble upon a deep fake porn video of you and refuse to hire you over it.
Teachers are being fired for having only fans, what do you think is gonna happen when deep fake porn videos of teachers start to pop up and parents start demanding the teacher be fired?
Ok, semantics. “Shame” may not be the best word for it but it’s the best I can think of.
Not as in “I feel ashamed about this video” but rather people thinking you ought to feel ashamed.
In a soon to be day and age where you can tell your VR goggles “show me a video of that person at the library today”, we shouldn’t be judging that person at the library.