General_Effort

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[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Rich people have staff that knows all their secrets; assistants, bodyguards, maids, drivers, ... Their staff might abuse their position to steal, blackmail, or even sign book deals. They still have the staff.

When AI agents become useful for normal people, normal people will use them.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

These ideas are all fundamentally misguided. Let's take a step back what we are trying to do here: We want to create a system so that the government can withhold certain information from certain people. That's both difficult and dangerous.

PornHub's idea requires cooperation from the hosters. You are not likely to get global agreement on that. So you will still need to do something about those foreign sites, such as blocking them.

At that point, such a law would achieve 2 things:

  1. Society has decided to create a technical censorship infrastructure.
  2. Domestic porn providers have an incentive to support to it because it removes foreign competition.

Blocklists that parents can install on their devices already exist, so there would be no change in that regard.

Of course, minors have no trouble circumventing such software. They have plenty of time and they are horny. You can't win. The only faint hope might be to include such features at deeper levels, similar to existing DRM schemes. This would be ripe for abuse by bad actors or governments. It certainly would be used against the consumer by the copyright industry and tech monopolies; just like existing DRM schemes.

So we really should ask why we would want to walk further down this expensive, hostile, and dangerous path. Are we afraid that masturbation causes blindness?

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

What is burnt toast, if not fascist propaganda?

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There have been controversies about that sort of thing.

I know the Oscar-winning movie The Tin Drum as an example. The book by Günter Grass is a very serious, highly celebrated piece of German post-war literature. It takes place around WW2. The protagonist has the mind of an adult in the body of a child. I guess the idea is that he is the other way around from most people?

The movie was banned in Ontario and Oklahoma, for a time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Drum_(film)#Censorship

With European societies shifting right, I doubt such a movie could be made today, but we aren't at a point where it would be outright illegal.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I see. I've looked up the details. Obscenity - whatever that means - is not protected by the first amendment. So where the material is obscene, it is still illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalition

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

what is the law’s position on AI-generated child porn?

Pretend underage porn is illegal in the EU and some other countries. I believe, in the US it is protected by the first amendment.

Mind that when people talk about child porn or CSAM that means anything underage, as far as politics is concerned. When two 17-year-olds exchange nude selfies, that is child porn. There were some publicized cases of teens in the US being convicted as pedophile sex offenders for sexting.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The FTC under Biden has begun to push back against tech monopolies.