Re:Is there a solution against revenge porn?
by gregjor on Thursday June 03, 2021 @03:18PM
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Depends on what you mean by “solution.” If you mean “eliminating,” probably not. Thousands of years of human cultural evolution have not eliminated murder, rape, assault, theft, or any of the many terrible things people do to each other. The best solutions we’ve come up with are laws, social norms, enforcement, punishment.
We can solve the problem for ourselves to some degree: don’t take photos or make videos that you don’t want everyone to see. No embarrassing photos/videos, no way for someone to use them against you. Rampant narcissism and public exhibitionism will probably continue to supply material that will inevitably get misused.
Deep fakes present another problem. We don’t have a solution for forgeries in other contexts, except for the usual laws and punishment. My guess is that if deep fakes become a widespread thing no one will trust images and videos they come across (unless there’s some reason to believe the material is real). If we could find suspicious porn everywhere it would lose its value to cause shame and embarrassment, because claiming it is fake would be more than plausible.
We can solve the problem for ourselves to some degree: don’t take photos or make videos that you don’t want everyone to see. No embarrassing photos/videos, no way for someone to use them against you. Rampant narcissism and public exhibitionism will probably continue to supply material that will inevitably get misused.
Deep fakes present another problem. We don’t have a solution for forgeries in other contexts, except for the usual laws and punishment. My guess is that if deep fakes become a widespread thing no one will trust images and videos they come across (unless there’s some reason to believe the material is real). If we could find suspicious porn everywhere it would lose its value to cause shame and embarrassment, because claiming it is fake would be more than plausible.