Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort from them, says charity | Internet safety | The Guardian
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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.
I am disgusted but not surprised.
I expected AI to destroy humanity, but more with killer robots and less job theft and creepy weirdos making porn
Have you not heard neckbeards explain how technology is driven by porn before? They are very proud and excited to explain it to you.
Edit: see? they can’t resist. Note that I never weighed in on the validity.
Well they're not wrong, tech had been and still is for a huge part driven by sex. Nothing to be proud or ashamed about, it simply is what it is, we're humans and as much as we pretend to all be prudes, we looooove a good sex.
I mean, it would be nice if demand for sex was just pushing us towards AI VR waifus or something. Let the neckbeards put on a haptic suit and bang all the Evangelian characters or something. Kinda fucked that we're going straight to fully-automated sexual exploitation of kids...
I wish we lived in a cool cyberpunk dystopia instead of the horror show that is present day reality.
Well honestly, if pedos having a go at VR AI kids keeps them from harming actual children ... People do fucked up things, if we can give them a VR AI outlet then let's go
Well that and financial incentives, right?
Lmao why are you so upset dude
I’m no more upset than the person calling them creepy weirdos.
If you needed any more reason not to post photos of your kids online, well...
And also to talk with children about predators
Fucking pieces of shit
Government/police insist on having basically unlimited ability to spy on people within the US, and then maybe catch a part of one operation after collecting heaps of evidence over months/years with tons of victims irrevocably harmed - and eventually a few main people get like 3-5 years in prison on a plea deal.
I get the whole "building a case" thing, but letting multiple children get abused, while other sickos learn the ropes to eventually "get enough evidence" so a few people can plead guilty for a comparatively light prison sentences is absurd. Shut anything about it down immediately. Even if it doesn't go to trial/conviction I'm sure the police have creative capacities to deal with child abusers outside of prison.
And people still think sex education in school is about teaching children how to preform sex acts, instead of helping them avoid predators.
Meanwhile when police do get more ability to spy, they'll raid the houses of environmental groups or other activists they spied on within a month.
Govt is spying on us to force us into espionage or other acts (eg witness testimony). They don't care about harm done to others unless there's an outcry.
There's a huge difference between teaching sex acts and helping kids avoid predators.
The lack of action against pedophiles is just going to fuel Qanon conspiracy theories and lead to vigilantism.
Neither QAnon nor the federal government cares much about kids. A guarantee of food and medical care would save a lot more lives than hunting child predators. Most child sexual abuse comes from people they know: parents, relatives, ministers, teachers, neighbors. Online stalkers count for a very tiny portion of crimes against children.
This is a moral panic piece, like terrorism scare pieces in the 2010s
That doesn't mean we need to divert attention away from pedophilia.
Yes, that's exactly what that means. Stop falling for the circus show. Anarchists, communists, gays, terrorists, trans people, pedophiles. Do you see the pattern ? A common enemy is a powerful thing to wield. It doesn't matter if they exist or how many there are. The unbelievers are witches anyway, burn them, BURN THEM !
Hint, police doesn't actually give a shit about hypothetical children getting harmed. This all a ploy to get the idiotic population to accept and even demand the police to invade everyone privacy.
Imagine Bill Clinton's secret service agents on Epstein's loliplane. Think they gave too shits about old people fucking 17 year olds ?
These sickos could just wank off to the AI-gen stuff, but I suspect that the real thrill is in the abuse.
Time to look at memes before I get more upset.
Long ago on Reddit I read a comment about inmates beating up on child sex offenders partly because it's a sick thing to do and partly because they don't want them to get the slightest foothold of influence over another inmate. They thrive on exerting power over weaker individuals and manipulating them.
I've heard at least one story of an inmate getting a longer prison sentences for actually killing at least one or more pedos in the same jail as him. I'm not a fan of prison violence, but that is something I could turn a blind eye to.
You mean the offender gaining influence?
Yes
and while obvious I also did not even think about this which, man, the level of wrong here is insane.
I want to be happy that the IWF exists and is collecting data about this kind of thing. This is extremely difficult and important work.
But they are also lobbying to ban encryption, arguing that privacy only helps criminals.
Sorry, but if Facebook is too dangerous for kids, instead of banning encryption so the authorities can more easily catch child abusers, let's just ban children from using Facebook before they fall victim to abuse.
The premise is ridiculous, this is "think of the children" type social panic mongering.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Paedophiles are being urged to use artificial intelligence to create nude images of children to extort more extreme material from them, according to a child abuse charity.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said a manual found on the dark web contained a section encouraging criminals to use “nudifying” tools to remove clothing from underwear shots sent by a child.
Last month the Guardian revealed that the Labour party was considering a ban on nudification tools that allow users to create images of people without their clothes on.
Hargreaves added that the Online Safety Act, which became law last year and imposes a duty of care on social media companies to protect children, “needs to work”.
According to research published last week by the communications regulator, Ofcom, a quarter of three- to four-year-olds own a mobile phone and half of under-13s are on social media.
The government is preparing to launch a consultation in the coming weeks that will include proposals to ban the sale of smartphones to under-16s and raise the minimum age for social media sites from 13 to as high as 16.
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and that is a way to abuse that technology that never crossed my mind. do I actually belong to this species?!
Yes, you do. We all have the potential for the most horrific acts of evil you can imagine in the right circumstances. That's why we usually have such a hard time when we give people power to rule over others and need a convoluted system of checks and balances to make sure nobody becomes a dick. Yet it still happens. Benevolence is not the default human state. You have to work to stay that way. That ability separates us from the brutal world of the wild.
Be honest: you never had any dark thoughts? Never did anything bad?
Yes, you might not be doing this particular bad thing. Yes, your inhibition of your dark thoughts might be better. Yes, you might be very sheltered and have a loving upbringing.
But I'm pretty sure if you truly look inside yourself without shying away, you will see that yes, you belong to this species.
oh sure. fleeting flights of fancy. thats why people get killed in moments of passion type of thing. but think about it. they have the thoughts about the kids and they have ai that pretty much should theoretically get what they want but no. that is not good enough. they need to use it to extort them. this really is beyond me. im pretty sure in this scenario I would stop at jacking to the ai solution. its like I might kill someone to defend my life or a loved ones life or maybe an innocents life and maybe I could be angry enough to do it as well. but like kill just to kill or something. thats wack.
I do have some dark thoughts at time.
But they never include minors.
You: Yeah sure, but I never did this particular bad thing.
Welcome to the species, bud. We're all a little mad here.
This is an example of why every responsible parent should forbid their children from uploading any pictures of themselves online, or better yet, bar them from social media entirely. This might be a hot take here, but parents should install monitoring software on all of their children's devices and be open about it. Not doing so is negligent.
Your kids could end up on the pedo registry if they take a picture of themselves and someone changes it into porn.
We could deal with this easily by banning the distribution of porn entirely.
Easily? This would cause riots.
The average coomer would rage out in their basement and nothing would happen.
If people are that addicted to porn, it's proof that it needs to be taken away.
Now, is it "paedophiles" or "pedophiles"?
British vs American spelling, no?
Yes, exactly.
More castration is needed.
Lobotomy might be better