|
|
Post by Stammerhead on Apr 16, 2024 7:32:36 GMT
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. Recent years have seen the growing use of the technology to add the faces of celebrities or public figures - most often women - into pornographic films. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68823042 |
|
|
|
Post by tickingmask on Apr 16, 2024 9:13:12 GMT
Under the legislation, anyone making explicit images of an adult without their consent will face a criminal record and unlimited fine. I'm as libertarian as the next guy, but it astounds me that this isn't already covered by existing legislation. Don't we already have laws against defamation/libel/slander/indecency/etc. that would cover this already? I'd have thought a more urgent problem is identifying and bringing to justice the creeps who produce this stuff, probably buried deep in some disinformation factory somewhere in Russia or China, and no amount of new legislation is going to help with that.
On a wider issue, I do worry that successive governments have been heaping vast amounts of new 'sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut' legislation that increasingly ends up being used for entirely different purposes from that for which it was originally intended (e.g. the guy reading a list of Iraqi war dead at a Labour party conference being detained under the prevention of terrorism act). When and why did our existing laws become so ineffective at dealing with terrorist intent, inflammatory speech, public nuisance, breach of the peace, fake defamatory porn videos and all the rest of it? "There ought to be a law against that" is one of those clichés that used to get said a lot in the past, but perhaps it's now long past time people stopped saying it!
|
|
|
|
Post by Stammerhead on Apr 16, 2024 9:21:28 GMT
Under the legislation, anyone making explicit images of an adult without their consent will face a criminal record and unlimited fine. I'm as libertarian as the next guy, but it astounds me that this isn't already covered by existing legislation. Don't we already have laws against defamation/libel/slander/indecency/etc. that would cover this already? I'd have thought a more urgent problem is identifying and bringing to justice the creeps who produce this stuff, probably buried deep in some disinformation factory somewhere in Russia or China, and no amount of new legislation is going to help with that.
On a wider issue, I do worry that successive governments have been heaping vast amounts of new 'sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut' legislation that increasingly ends up being used for entirely different purposes from that for which it was originally intended (e.g. the guy reading a list of Iraqi war dead at a Labour party conference being detained under the prevention of terrorism act). When and why did our existing laws become so ineffective at dealing with terrorist intent, inflammatory speech, public nuisance, breach of the peace, fake defamatory porn videos and all the rest of it? "There ought to be a law against that" is one of those clichés that used to get said a lot in the past, but perhaps it's now long past time people stopped saying it!
It definitely falls under slander but I’m wondering if it’s easier to crack down on perverted nerds than it is to deal with the larger issues. I might have to stop drawing erotic cartoons of Liz Truss though. |
|
|
|
Post by Flying Monkeys on Apr 16, 2024 9:21:37 GMT
Damn, there goes my afternoon.
|
|
|
|
Post by notoriousnobbi on Apr 17, 2024 13:22:36 GMT
Someone typing a prompt to Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion
Someone typing
Stable Diffusion
Colin typing
Stable Diffusion
Colin typing
Stable Diffusion
Colin typing
Stable Diffusion interrupts the connection
|
|
|
|
Post by bomtombadil on Apr 17, 2024 17:24:39 GMT
|
|
