New technology enables new crimes, which in turn inspire new laws? Of course that's tech news.

(Besides which, Hacker News is not just for tech news. Read the guidelines.)

I enjoy non-tech news on HN. I should have made myself clearer, that I am kind of disappointed with BBC.

How do you propose AI figure out based on a movie that the person in the movie consented to the making of the movie, but not to distribution afterwards? I would suggest even a skilled human cannot do that.

Perhaps it could run facial analysis, find the social media accounts of the person and check the messages. Cross reference with messages of friend and old boyfriends mentioned on e.g. FB relationship status. Run some sentiment analysis towards possible SO's to see if there are bad intentions involved.

I am joking, of course.

I believe that you're joking, but essentially the same concept -- the idea that someone's public-facing behavior is evidence of what they've consented to in private -- is sadly, disturbingly prevalent in sexual assault cases.

Afaics this is because there are no other forms of evidence available in sexual assault cases where what's being contested is consent. Two people have had sex, but testify differently over whether one of them said "yes". How do you figure out which one is telling the truth? I know it's very distressing for the victim, but if we keep "innocent until proven guilty" while making circumstantial evidence inadmissible then I don't see how anyone could ever be successfully prosecuted for this kind of assault

joking now, twenty years or less from now we might not be so sure. when everything is water marked so it can be tracked computers will have an easier time of sorting it out.