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Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort from them, says charity | Internet safety | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Bebo@literature.cafe to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Internet Watch Foundation has found a manual on dark web encouraging criminals to use software tools that remove clothing. The manipulated image could then be used against the child to blackmail them into sending more graphic content, the IWF said.

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[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Pedophile apologists*

Nobody interested in the development of AI would be interested in defending pedos, unless they’re pedos. That’s reality.

Why lump the two groups together?

In fact, AI is used by these orgs to prevent workers from having to look at these images themselves which is partially why mod/admin/content filter people’s burnout is so high.

Everytime some nasty shit (pedo shit, gore, etc) is posted on tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, etc, those reports go through real people (or did prior to these AI models). Now imagine smaller, upcoming websites like lemmy instances that might not have the funds or don’t know of this AI solution.

AI fixes problems too - the root of the problem is cyber extortion. Whether that means the criminals are photoshopping or using AI. They’re targeting children for Christ sake, besides that being fucked up all by itself, it’s not hard to fool a child. AI or not. How criminals are contacting and blackmailing YOUR CHILDREN is the problem imo

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why lump the two groups together?

Because it's very hard to make a "think of the children" argument out of this without doing so.

[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 4 points 6 months ago

Hadn’t thought about it that way!