I’m so glad I’m not growing up in this age of smartphones, social media, and bullshit generators. Life was hell enough in the 90s without all that noise.

  • @BurningnnTree@lemmy.one
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    11411 months ago

    This is a misleading headline. The survey question asked if you know any friends OR CLASSMATES who have generated AI nudes. If just one kid in a large school generates AI nudes and a lot of other kids find out about it, then those kids will answer yes on this survey. So this statistic doesn’t do a good job of indicating exactly how widespread this is.

    • @Artyom@lemm.ee
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      2511 months ago

      The whole premise of the survey is absurd. Almost no one would actually admit to using it, so we’re multiplying a super small ratio of admittance by a super large ratio of acquaintance and assuming the two cancel which is almost certainly not true.

      It’s all speculation, the only way to know how many people are using these things is by website visit analytics which these companies would never give away (for free).

    • Sir Arthur V Quackington
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      611 months ago

      Still, even assuming Rumor mill inflation drives this down by a factor of 10, and we slash it down, there are a handful of kids probably doing this, which isn’t surprising, bit is extremely upsetting.

  • Flying Squid
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    I’m so glad I’m not growing up in this age of smartphones, social media, and bullshit generators. Life was hell enough in the 90s without all that noise.

    Turned 18 in 1995 here. I can’t say with absolute certainty that I wouldn’t have done the same thing as a horny teenager. Although I doubt I would have told anyone about it.

  • @brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    3111 months ago

    TBH kids need a new culture/attititude towards digital media, where they basically assume anything they consume on their phones is likely bogus. Like a whole new layer of critical thinking.

    I think it’s already shifting this direction with the popularity of private chats at the expense of “public” social media.

    • Pennomi
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      2011 months ago

      Yep, at this point your real nudes could leak and you can just plausibly claim they’re faked.

      Something will change, but I’m not sure where society will decide to land on this topic.

    • ObjectivityIncarnate
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      That’s definitely going to happen organically, especially since this is a genie that is definitely never going back in the bottle. It’s only going to become more convincing, more accessible, and more widespread, even for simply ‘self-contained’ use, especially by hormone-flooded teenagers.

      • @brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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        110 months ago

        Even if all AI developement is outlawed, this minute, everywhere, the genie is already out of the bottle. Flux 1.dev is bascially photorealsitic for many situations, and there will always be someone hosting it in some sketchy jurisdiction.

    • @kibiz0r@midwest.social
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      111 months ago

      I kinda doubt anyone is getting “fooled” by these at this point, though that is a whole nother layer of horrible hell in store for us…

      Right now, we’re dealing with the most basic questions:

      • Is it immoral (and/or should it be illegal) for people to be trading pornographic approximations of you?
      • Is it immoral (and/or should it be illegal) for people to privately make pornographic approximations of you?
      • Is it immoral (and/or should it be illegal) to distribute software which allows people to make pornographic approximations of others?
      • Yeather
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        111 months ago
        1. Illegal
        2. Immoral
        3. If built specifially for? Illegal. If it’s a tool with proper blockages that ends up having a way to break away and make them anyway? No.
  • @Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    1611 months ago

    Who here has kids?

    Because the statement: “1 in 10 minors say their friends X” is true for any value of X.

    Besides, I had this friend at school who’s stepsister is a model, she lives in Canada. Anyway, you’ll never believe what she did with my friend!

    • @Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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      511 months ago

      Right, so some kids are generating fakes, but the real things are already floating around.

      It seems to me that the discussion should really be with the kids about what kind of material or messages are appropriate.

      And no, I don’t expect that to be 100% successful, but I think it’s still the right approach.

  • Hello_there
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    1011 months ago

    If this leads to desensitization of the naked body, that’s a good thing.

    • @MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
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      411 months ago

      Pornography was doing a fine job of that. Naked deep fakes of actual people who are actual minors should not be desensitized.

  • @HarriPotero@lemmy.world
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    611 months ago

    When I was little we’d play this game called auts.

    The levels were basically just bitmaps with one colour signed as alpha.

    I scanned a picture of my math teacher just so we could fly around it and blow it up. Good times.

  • @11111one11111@lemmy.world
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    611 months ago

    “I’m so glad I’m not growing up in this age of smartphones, social media, and bullshit generators.”

    Lol I’m so glad I’m not the journalist or or journalist’s intern who had to poll this question to kids lol. I know I’m being stupid but all I cam picture is that Steve Buscemi meme with the skate board being like, “Hey duuuudes, any of us kids making your Commodore 64’s draw boobies for you?!”

    Back in 2005 when I was in school if we saw any teacher talking to students about anything not school related there were rumors that teacher was fucking every student down that hall. In our defense tho 3 out of the 9 science department teachers were relocated or fired for fucking girls from our class. Not in our defense tho, noone knew while we were still in school. We were just assholes.