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

While I agree with the sentiment that rich people's issues have more influence.

How Many States Have Revenge Porn Laws?

All states, excluding Massachusetts and South Carolina, have separate statutes specifically related to revenge porn. It's important to note, however, that a person may still be prosecuted for revenge porn under other statutes in those two states.

https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/revenge-porn-laws-by-state.html

You think it wasn't celebrities first? The issue here is specifically Taylor Swift.

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.

White House used Panic!

It hurt itself in its confusion!

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.

Well, it's not really just about Swift. There are probably many other people that are going through this. Not every person who generates nudes of someone else is going to make it to the news, after all.

I could see this being a problem in highschools as really mean pranks. That is not good. There are a million other ways I could see fake nudes being used against someone.

If someone spread pictures of me naked: 1. I would be flattered and 2. Really ask why someone wants to see me naked in the first place.

If anything, just an extension of any slander(?) laws would work. It's going to be extremely hard to enforce any law though, so there is that.

However, how long have revenge porn laws been a thing? Were they ever really a thing?

Ya, it fucking should be

https://www.wired.com/story/biden-robocall-deepfake-danger/

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.

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."

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

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.