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A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her

The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor and then from a sheriff’s deputy assigned to their school. But the images were shared on Snapchat, an app that deletes messages seconds after they’re viewed, and the adults couldn’t find them. The principal had doubts they even existed.

Among the kids, the pictures were still spreading. When the 13-year-old girl stepped onto the Lafourche Parish school bus at the end of the day, a classmate was showing one of them to a friend.

“That’s when I got angry,” the eighth grader recalled at her discipline hearing.

Fed up, she attacked a boy on the bus, inviting others to join her. She was kicked out of Sixth Ward Middle School for more than 10 weeks and sent to an alternative school. She said the boy whom she and her friends suspected of creating the images wasn’t sent to that alternative school with her. The 13-year-old girl’s attorneys allege he avoided school discipline altogether.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Why is the government allowing CP generating AI's to exist?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because of who the president is?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago

Because our country is literally being run by an actual pedophile ring.

They'd be more likely to want to know how to do it themselves, than to stop it.

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because money is the only thing we, as a country, truly care about. We're only against things like CP and pedos as long as it doesn't get in the way of making money. Same reason Trump sharing Larry Nassar and Jeffrey Epstein's love of "young and nubile" women, as Epstein put it, didn't kill his political career -- he's the pro-business candidate who makes the wealthy even wealthier

The orange Nazi could be raping a 12 yr old girl on national tv, but say it's the libs and drag queens who are the rapists, and his cult with put their domestic terrorist hats back on

[–] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

The problem is that it's impossible to take out this one application. There doesn't need to be any actual nude pictures of children in the training set for the model to figure out that a naked child is basically just a naked adult but smaller. (Ofc I'm simplifying a bit).

Even going further and saying let's remove all nakedness from our dataset, it's been tried... And what they found is that removing such a significant source of detailed pictures containing a lot of skin decreased the quality of any generated image that has to do with anatomy.

The solution is not a simple 'remove this from the training data'. (Not to mention existing models that are able to generate these kinds of pictures are impossible to globally disable even if you were to be able to affect future ones)

As to what could actually be done, applying and evolving scanning for such pictures (not on people's phones though [looking at you here EU].) That's the big problem here, it got shared on a very big social app, not some fringe privacy protecting app (there is little to do except eliminate all privacy if you'd want to eliminate it on this end)

Regulating this at the image generation level could also be rather effective. There aren't that many 13 year old savvy enough to set up a local model to generate there. So further checks at places where the images are generated would also help to some degree. Local generation is getting easier by the day to set up though, so while this should be implemented it won't do everything.

In conclusion: it's very hard to eliminate this, but ways exist to make it harder.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You say this as if the US is the only place generative AI models exist.

That said, the US (and basically every other) government is helpless against the tsunami of technology in general, much less global tech from companies in other countries.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm saying why is it so easy for like 12 year olds to find these sites? Its not exactly a pirate bay situation - you can't generate these kind of AI videos with just a website copied off a USB and an IP address.

These kind of resources should be far easier to shutdown access to than pirate bay.

[–] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exactly. Snapchat could 100% filter and flag this using AI if anyone cared to make them.

[–] papertowels@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Snapchat allowing this on their platform is the insane part to me. How are they still operating if they're letting CSAM on the platform??