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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/THE_BULLSHIT_ALARM on 2023-08-24 15:43:44.
• Content Warning: Synthetic non-consensual exploitative imagery:
• The Report:
The short of the news is this:
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AI advancements (latent diffusion) have made it so the number of harmful deepfake services and hosting websites have skyrocketed in number and traffic over the past 5 months.
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Part of their growth strategy is shifting from Hollywood celebrities, deliberately targeting regular women with social media + women YouTubers/Streamers. For profit/traffic.
– This is particularly painful, as interacting with audiences is a vital part of their job; A lose-lose situation wherein speaking up will place a target on themselves, inviting focused harassment.
Is this a problem solely affecting women (influencers)?
Not anymore.
- It’s now an issue which very severely impacts day-to-day women, men and teens.
These services & hosting websites lure millions of users by displaying streamers, and are then subsequently often being used for blackmail, extorsion, threats, coercion, deceit, targeting non-influencers:
"They Follow You on Instagram, Then Use Your Face To Make Deepfake Porn in This Sex Extortion Scam.
And teenagers, both girls and boys who consequently sometimes … engage in self harm.
What’s new about this? And is this solvable?
You can’t put toothpaste back in the tube. This technology is not going away. And U.S. legislation is not catching up to other countries.
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- But the discovery is that the harmful deepfake services and websites (dozens of new ones emerging each month — powered by AI advances) are all fueled by the 91% market leader. Google Search.
Between 60-70% of their traffic stems directly from immediate Google Searches.
Notably, Google (not too different from animal/child abuse) has already existing policy against these types (!) of deepfake hosting websites — but it’s fully dormant, as dozens of such websites launch each week.
And that’s the hope here:
• That through streamers like Amouranth urging Google to act, to adapt to the new threat,
and delist harmful deepfake dedicated websites — it’ll overwhelmingly cut their traffic/profit.
• And save not only their streaming peers voluminous pain, for years to come, but likely regular persons you know IRL.