Obviously horrible, but is Cathy Newman a celebrity?
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2024
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I'm gonna go against the grain and no doubt be downvoted, but surely this is overblown compared to the level of actual harm it causes? They're not real images, almost everyone is aware they're not real images, they don't have a negative impact on the lives of the victim beyond them being creeped out that people are perving over them (but again, everyone knows it's not really them).
I can see it has the potential for leading to actual harm, eg a stalker developing worse behaviour, but I don't really see that it meets the threshold in and of itself. It's only slightly worse than doing something someone else doesn't like or saying something offensive.
Does everyone know they're not real? I'm not suggesting they are real, only that for all I know the quality of these fakes might be convincing.
Whether this story is "overblown" or not is subjective I guess but the victim's being "creeped out" does seem like actual harm to me
Thee woman interviewed for the piece reckons it caused her harm.
Disgusting! Where?
In case you didn't read the article, the presenter in question isn't John Snow. Sorry for the disappointment
That’s awful! Where can these be found so I can avoid them?
But on a serious note, it’s kind of cool and also weird to mass produce this stuff when before it was relegated to one’s imagination. I’m not talking just the non-consenting pornography aspect but just this technology in general. We have a lot of growing up to do as a society.
Send me a picture of your face, your location, and your employer, and I'll see if I can help you find out exactly how 'cool' it is.