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“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens (arstechnica.com)
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[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 52 points 2 days ago (2 children)

At least 56,575 children are sexually abused every year.

That’s according to U.S. child protective services records.

The number is staggering—yet it only reflects child sexual abuse that is recognized, reported, and found likely to have occurred against children ages 0-17.

FBI crime data shows that 51% of reported rape is perpetrated against people ages 0-19.

That’s approximately 61,754 young rape victims every year, including our most vulnerable children, adolescents navigating middle and high school, and young adults just beginning to move through the world with more independence.

It's really not a small cabal of the ultrawealthy though.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Out of 73 million.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

The point I was making was that it isn't just a small cabal of the ultrawealthy that commit these crimes. A point that went right over your head in your attempt to downplay the severity of child rape.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That are trying to normalize AI nudifying apps usable on kids?

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That are trying to normalize pedophilia.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When what passes for the leader of the "free world" is a spearhead for pedophilia it's kind of a bit late to be safe talking about "normalizing" stuff.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well yeah, that's why it's so silly to see comments about how these people at the top are trying to normalize it. It already is, they're already in power, they're not going anywhere.

[–] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trump lost, but when he racked up a bunch of felonies, found guilty of rape, and deep connections with Jeffery Epstein’s sex-trafficking operations… well America decided to give him another shot. I’m super curious what the textbooks aren’t going to say.

[–] madmantis24@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 day ago

I need all the optimism left in me just to believe we'll have textbooks worth thinking about in the future

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I doubt that group would be very significant if it weren't for the outsized influence of a handful of very wealthy, decadent men. At the very least there would be fewer roadblocks to doing something about the rest of the pervs.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

fewer roadblocks to doing something about the rest of the pervs.

There are very few roadblocks for rapists as it is.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago

That's what I said