No one needs to be a Photoshop genius to manipulate an image anymore. An eleven-year-old can pull it off while licking an ice cream. Or my wife, who turned me into the Joker with a few keystrokes while watching TV.
The disinformer has acquired superpowers.
It can be done in a cute way, or like the joke above. But also with the aim of humiliating people and blackmail them.
The students copied photos of girls from the school newspaper, used AI to superimpose their heads onto bodies from porn sites, and distributed the images across the network. deepfake.
The students copied photos of girls from the school newspaper, used AI to superimpose their heads onto bodies from porn sites, and distributed the images across the network.
Journalist Ko Narin suspected that the scandal was not limited to the two universities. She soon uncovered numerous similar chat groups at schools across the country.
"The Humiliation Room" was the name of one of the groups.
"I was shocked by how systematic and organized the process was," Ko Narin tells the BBC. "The most horrifying thing I discovered was a group for underage students at a school that had more than two thousand members."1 ”Det mest fruktansvärda jag upptäckte var en grupp för minderåriga elever på en skola som hade mer än tvåtusen medlemmar.”
In this case, it was a matter of still images, I believe. But with today's tools, it is of course possible to create deepfakes in video.
The nightmare is suddenly encountering a perfect copy of yourself. A video clip where you say terrible things, hit children, take part in a store robbery, or appear in a porn film.
Then perhaps a message in the chat: Shall we talk a bit about the clip? prata lite om klippet?
Since the technology is easily accessible and inexpensive, the perpetrator does not have to be an organized criminal. Anyone with psychopathic traits can easily harm another person—perhaps for life.
It ought to be possible to stop it—to fundamentally criminalize the entire practice. Quite simply, a ban on disseminating fakes of people. Zero tolerance.
Everyone deserves legal protection against such humiliations, whether it be Donald Trump or some other controversial figure in power. (Obvious caricatures are, of course, a different matter.)
That ought to be possible. The Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari touches on this in his book *Nexus*. He compares it to counterfeiting money, which has existed for thousands of years. Some people succeed, but on the whole, currencies remain stable. We can be fairly certain that the money we hold in our hands is genuine.
Shouldn't it be possible, then, to have a law against the faking of human beings? To be able to trust that the person you encounter online is real.
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1https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpdlpj9zn9g
2Yuval Noah Harari 2024: Nexus
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