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The harm here isn't AI, or if it is the harm is minimal. Media companies have routinely organised vicious smear campaigns since forever. If you spend time really watching politics, there are some grave injustices peddled by insensitive mobs. I expect we can date that sort of activity back to Roman times.

AI is going to make life pretty miserable for good looking women in the public eye. Maybe. I think we can probably social-out the interest as this becomes widespread, it isn't like this actually reflects badly on Taylor Swift. But that has always been a serious hazard of public life.

We've had this sort of thing happen before [0]; IMO this could be argued as harm reduction. I'm not sure the argument would be carried, but there is a case to be made. The important thing is to acknowledge this is easy to do and everyone agrees that nudes should be ignored.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_celebrity_nude_photo_leak

parent roenxi 2 years ago

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