Sexual deepfake images and videos created by generative artificial intelligence that target women are rapidly spreading across Japan. What can be done to stop this?

Nothing. We were told AI was going to be great! That wasn't a lie was it?

To stop it? Absolutely nothing unless you can turn off the switch to every AI image generator. And even the, people will just use Photoshop and other editing software.

They could make it possible for the affected people affected to sue those using their images.

Such images have been around for years, but they have recently been improved. Its something that we just have to live with because the technology has become ubiquitous. I think as a society we have to just become accustomed to how sex is considered in the 21st century, and not hold on to antiquated values of it being something shameful or vulgar.

Don’t watch. Don’t click.

Nothing. But that won't stop them from passing laws and arresting a few early adopters. In a couple years, every schoolboy will be able to make deep fakes. It will be to the point that we will assume such videos are fake until proven otherwise.

Twisted people and AI can produce content faster than anyone can stop it. If the content is shared on overseas servers, the most that Japan could do would be to go the China route—block access to big swaths of the internet. Domestically, they can aim for a couple high-profile cases to scare people away from deep fakes, but authorities are not able to stay ahead of the technology short of very draconian measures.

Not much, unfortunately. Any positive invention that humans come up with will, with 100 per cent certainty, end up being used for nefarious purposes. It's just who we are.

Do you remember Anna Kournikova, the tennis player? In her prime, which was well over 25 years ago, I saw some explicitly doctored images that had originally been taken of her eating a banana between sets. At the time, the technology was pretty primitive by today's standards, but the image was fairly widespread. The point is, this is not a new thing, its been around forever. This is just part of the hysteria about the AI boom.

Make the people that produce, and specially that profit, from the images legally responsible. Nothing will solve the problem completely, but that is a terribly bad reason to give up trying to do anything about it.

Make the people that produce, and specially that profit, from the images legally responsible.

13-year-old boys will be doing this in their bedrooms. You going after them? Sometimes you just have to live with changes.

13-year-old boys will be doing this in their bedrooms. You going after them? Sometimes you just have to live with changes.

Why not? what do you think happens if they break the law in other easy to do things like child pornography?

Exactly what the authorities already do over drawings, paintings and photoshopped images. Prosecute the the individual responsible if it is deemed a crime. After the fact.

You cannot have a bit of censorship. You prosecute after an offence, or you switch to fascism and implement state oversight.

And you should be prosecuting just the creators of the image, not the social media company, the people who sell graphic design software or the people who sell the computer it was done on. That is a cheap way of censoring everybody because a small minority misbehaves. Only fascists censor.

Any software clever enough to do make a deepfake video will be clever enough to be programmed to not do it. Ideas like freedom and human rights do not include the right to do nefarious things that affect others.

The issue here with AI is that it drastically reduces the amount of effort required. It doesn't matter if you could have made a Cameron Diaz deepfake twenty years ago. No one was making them with voice prompts. The effort and knowledge required limited the number of people doing it.

The same applies to using AI to telephone elderly people en masse to scam them. People making and using AI do not deserve the "freedom" to do this.

kohakuebisuToday 08:59 am JST

Any software clever enough to do make a deepfake video will be clever enough to be programmed to not do it.

Boy it would be a shame if there were software developers around the world with access to source code.

You can criminalize it, but you can't stop it.

Maybe the Muslims are right, cover your women head to toe, to avoid their pictures taken and use as data for generative AI.

You can criminalize it, but you can't stop it.

You could say the same about every crime, yet it is obvious there is value in making things illegal and the people that benefit from them responsible for that activity.

The issue is not AI but those who created it: the programmers.

That cat is so far out of the bag that it had kittens a million times