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At some point, the Maria account also posted the exact same videos as the Maria Dopari account but with a different face. It appears that for three videos posted between March 6 and 8, the Maria account accidentally used a face from one of its other fake personas, called Lana, which posts under several usernames under some variation of lana.down, the biggest of which has of 43,800 followers. The Maria account then continued posting with the face it used regularly. In some cases 404 Media was able to identify the original videos that were being stolen by these accounts.

Wtf.

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[–] thakritik@lemmy.world 145 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What a horrible day to read and comprehend the English language

[–] Botunda@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

This made me laugh and laugh. Thank you

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 78 points 1 day ago

That... Is certainly a way to combine words together.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago

what a brave new world we live in

That's not a combination of words I expected to see today.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Difficult to know what even to say about this. It might be legal? But it is a deep violation of the social contract.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

It's promoting the fetishization of already deeply marginalized and possibly easily exploited people due to their genetics.

This is going to create a subclass of gooners who want to groom and exploit the mentally handicapped in real life which is definitely illegal.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (5 children)

You're probably right, but this feels an awful lot like a 'violence in video games will lead to violence in real life' argument.

[–] alaphic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

While I don't disagree with you, what if the violence in the game in question was specifically against people with Down's Syndrome? I think that may bring it a little closer to being equal - in terms of the analogy, anyway. I don't think the big problem here is the AI porn necessarily, so much as the fetishization of not just a minority, but one with an impairment. (Which I think is only further compounded by said impairment being largely cognitive/developmental in nature, as well.)

[–] shani66@ani.social 5 points 1 day ago

It's the same argument. Even if this is a wild new kinda distasteful it's not going to have any real affects in the real world.

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[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

While I do wholeheartedly agree that promoting fetishization of marginalized people who are vulnerable is despicable, evil, and just about any other pejorative you can think of--but it's a thought crime.

It's not illegal to create digital art (even the disgusting kind) which depicts fictitious grown adults doing grown adult things.

I would argue that if any such subclass of degenerate could exist, then they already do exist. You're not creating this subclass and any claim of expansion of such a subclass would be anecdotal at best and bullshit at worst. If they're out there they're out there. It's a chicken and egg problem. Which came first, the pornography or the degenerate?

We have a constitutionally protected right in this country to freedom of expression and that right cannot be infringed simply because you believe that it could lead to more people being taken advantage of. The right to that expression must be protected regardless of how repugnant you believe the resultant actions are. As history is shown any number of times the restriction of any right is a slippery slope in any capacity. There's a quote by Noam Chomsky which is particularly relevant here;

If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise.

As a society we need to strongly condemn these actions, and we need to ensure that the most vulnerable among us are absolutely protected. But as soon as you start making thought crimes illegal you open the door to any number of machinations. How long before the extreme right use that precedent to start prosecuting individuals for other thought crimes? I would bet my last dollar it wouldn't take very long...

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[–] PeteZa@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

What a fucked up day to be literate.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it's illegal as fuck I'm going to be so relieved. It's so distractingly horrible that I can't even think clearly

It's not illegal to take advantage of amputees, but it's definitely illegal to groom and have sex with the mentally disabled, who are classified similarly to children.

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[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 1 day ago

I feel complicated about AI porn in general, but I'm not even all that offended about somebody with down syndrome having an onlyfans, provided they have the cognitive function to understand those actions, and I certainly have met individuals with down syndrome who do.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago

I love how there's that one weirdo downvoting all these replies against the multitude of people who find this distasteful. You know who you are, you twisted little wretch.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

Capitalism breeds innovation

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago
[–] CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

AI? Oh good. I’ve been seeing this “down syndrome baddie” content in thumbnail form and just sort of threw my arms up like “2025 things I guess?” There was that video going around last year about a woman with Down syndrome talking about how she wants to go out and drink and be a club rat that everybody was applauding, so I figured this was the natural next step.

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Give a person with down syndrome alcohol? I'd rather feed a Gremlin after midnight

[–] CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Here it is…

“Hey bartender… you don’t serve me a margarita, so I don’t drink a margarita…”

I’m a bartender. You’re damn right I won’t, and good. I’ll grab my boss if the issue ever comes up and they can handle that one. Haha.

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[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

collapsed inline mediaShrimp Jesus, as seen on Facebook!

And I thought that Shrimp Jesus was bad already.

[–] pipe01@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago

Not even shrimp Jesus can save us from this one

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago
[–] scytale@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago

That headline is a brand new sentence for sure.

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Man I'm getting a lot of use out of this llama

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm so tired of this fucking timeline, man.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago
[–] SaladKing@lemm.ee 14 points 22 hours ago

Brother…what.the.fuck…? What kind of degenerate BS is this?

Exploitation machines go BBBRRRRRRRRRRRR

[–] VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago

I don't like this sentence

[–] nectar45@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

Eeewwwwwwwww..........

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 9 points 1 day ago

I was still surprised... We live in a world that has "rule 34" and yet I was still surprised to read that...

[–] Ok_imagination@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I don't think he is watching. Clearly no one is moderating earth atm.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

Steal content, use AI to pretend the model has down syndrome, sell paid fanvue videos (because onlyfans is stricter with AI).

Chat, I don't even

[–] sixty@sh.itjust.works 7 points 17 hours ago

Wild headline

[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

I'm going to say that these degenerates need to be publicly humiliated and banned from ever owning or using any computing device ever again.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

don't know what i hate more; people or ai

[–] Cabbage_Pout61@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Definitely people, AI doesn't do anything by itself, it's a soulless tool.

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

There is like 3-4 different progressions of awful here. Im going in the woods with a stick

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Meanwhile they remove "billionaires shouldn't exist"

Glad I deleted my meta account.

[–] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago
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