Now that it happened to a billionaire "something needs doing". This society we live in is shit.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2024
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and you bet its going to be done in a way that fucks us over somehow
So many women have been calling for action to this, and they only listen when it's Taylor Swift who gets harmed
Nah plenty of rich people have been deepfaked, this is probably getting addressed because of her massive and obsessive fanbase.
Ahh, so things only get done when you can convince twitter idiots to get up in arms.
Yeah, like people haven't been making fake sexual images of celebrities for decades...
to be fair the tools recently got orders of magnitude better
Not better, just easier for the plebes to use.
There's a world of difference in effort and intelligence needed between photoshopping a particular person's head onto a body doing what you fantasize and just typing in "Taylor Swift sucking on a huge black cock while being fucked from behind" and having an AI art program just spit out the wanted result.
No, actually better. Sure, there's been photoshopped images since forever, but Marilyn Monroe stripping for you while saying your name? Never been a thing...
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The shit this woman has to take is repulsive.
About twelve years ago I met her in Park City, where I lived at the time. I had no fucking clue who she was while we chatted on the lift line but she was very nice and was very excited to ski. I let her take the chair ahead of me and I got the next chair with a middle aged man (late forties+, so about ten years older than me at the time). He excitedly told me that she was Taylor Swift to which I replied something like "Oh, that's cool. I'm not a country fan". He kept yapping all the way up, taking pictures with his phone, etc. At the top he almost made me fall as he bolted from the chair. The poor woman got mobbed by a crowd that seem to.manifest out of thin air. I sat, strapped my foot in (snowboard), took my time, and the poor woman was still surrounded by crazies. She was so excited to ski. I know now she was about twenty but I thought she was ~15 because she was so giddy. I doubt she got to ride. I'm still grossed out by that scene all these years later and things have only gotten worse for her since.
I wish her the best.
Snowboarders like you are such chill dudes. I never was much of a skater as a kid tho I did pick up snowboarding. Last week I strapped my board again, it’s been at least 9 years, was nervous about it as I am not as flexible as I used to (am 38 now) and this kid comes up and says: “Huck Knife! Nice board dude!” Made my day. Made me loose my anxiety and learned that I still knew how to ride.
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Kinda annoying that this has been warned about repeatedly before, and yet only when someone famous has it happen to them that they go “oh ok maybe this is a problem.”
The potential for massive amounts of election fuckery should have been what moved the government to action.
But at least something gave them a kick in the ass, so I suppose yay?
Still, I hope they consult actual subject matter experts, and don't just do a bunch of "common sense" sounding things that don't actually accomplish anything (or worse, cause a ton of collateral damage across all tech industries.)
Nations are fiefdoms.
It's not because she's famous, it's because she's rich.
This is what bothers me so much about this, how many people have been affected by this and the only reason this is finally being treated with the seriousness it deserves is because a famous person is affected?
She's not just famous, she's a billionaire. The government will move mountains for her now.
So many women have been calling out for this and it takes frickin Taylor Shift for them to call for a legislation...
did you expect anything else?
Precedence set by Ticketmaster too....
If I had a list of 1,000 things the White House ought to be doing right now, legislating Taylor Swift deepfakes would be 1,001.
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So for the past year there have been of deep fakes of thousands of minors floating around but it really becomes a problem when a mega famous billionaire is affected where it doesn’t really make much of a difference. Not to say it isn‘t about time. It absolutely is. Interesting priorities though.
I think her fans are the one who made this a big issue for media attention.
It's not a problem at all. It's an opportunity.
Just think! An entirely new class of merchandise: Make Taylor Swift the avatar of your AI assistant. Cam chat with the genuine Taylor Swift AI.
Or Taylor Swift Movies and cameos. Any nobody actor plays her part and Taylor's likeness is deep-faked onto her. Any show where they pretend that some fictional character is a famous singer. That can be the real Taylor. They can churn that out while the biological Taylor is out there, making money.
But for all the licensing money to roll in, you need to turn a human likeness into a property that can be bought and sold. Best if piracy can be turned into a federal crime in the process. That gives you way more power to snoop out file-sharers and the taxpayer has to foot the bill.
I mean cha-cha-cha-ching. You with me?
Exactly. It's mind blowing the obsession a lot of them have with making pictures of an underage Greta Thunberg.
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I think the funniest part about all of this is that fake nudes have been around for years yet now that it's "AI" it needs dealt with.
I feel like there are a lot more problems that have been going on a lot longer that should be dealt with.
That’s disgusting. There’s so many of them, though. Which ones are they talking about?
Love the sunny reference. Wish it didn't go over so many people's heads
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This has been a thing for three years now. Are there still no laws?
The fuck? Why is it a problem just because of taytay?
Only caring about this topic now when it happens to some filthy rich white woman huh
Plenty of regular folks calling for this for decades and only once someone far enough up the money tree gets hurt do they do something. Frankly disgusting.
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Hasnt this been going on since Britney Spears edits in the 90s? Better late than never I suppose. Great governing.
Things the world needs:
- ~~governments regulating the Internet more~~
- some others
I wonder how Public Figure law factors in to this.
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