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Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort from them, says charity | Internet safety | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Internet Watch Foundation has found a manual on dark web encouraging criminals to use software tools that remove clothing. The manipulated image could then be used against the child to blackmail them into sending more graphic content, the IWF said.

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[–] WallEx@feddit.de 72 points 7 months ago (10 children)

I am disgusted but not surprised.

[+] norbert@kbin.social 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We really don't have any solution to this yet.

We do, and always have, but good luck with implementation. Humanity hates acting like an adult.

Critical thinking: society knows to a certainty deepfakes exist and hence should be intrinsically skeptical of any image they see, demanding the image's source establish some reason to trust the image. We could be less blindly trusting.
Body acceptance: for 0 seconds of humanity's history has it made credible sense to shame someone over having seen them naked. We could choose not to.
Competence: Appeasing these people only encourages them. If people would just understand that giving your blackmailer what they want is always strictly worse than not doing so, it would remove the incentive to blackmail. Why would you trust your blackmailer to keep your secret? Makes no sense.

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