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The Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 makes distributing intimate images without consent a crime in England and Wales. It prohibits sharing, or threatening t
by ProxCoques 2y ago
The Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 makes distributing intimate images without consent a crime in England and Wales. It prohibits sharing, or threatening to share, private sexual images of someone else without their consent and with the intent to cause distress or embarrassment to that person.
I get that deepfakes are superimposing a non-consenting face on a (presumably) consenting body, but how does that matter? Is it that "visually lying" is a legal loophole?
- oceanplexian 2y ago> I get that deepfakes are superimposing a non-consenting face on a (presumably) consenting body, but how does that matter? Is it that "visually lying" is a legal loophole? That's not how deepfakes work, since nothing is superimposed. Models like Stable Diffusion build a training set out of several images of a face (e.g. with something like LORA), and reduce it to a set of algorithms. That algorithm is a sophisticated way of expressing "green shirt, black hair, large chin, etc" It's not actually storing photos of faces. It then unmasks a new face out noise using those blueprints. You can change the blueprints, for example, I could ask SD to give me an image with gigantic rabbit ears. To a layperson it might look the same since the technology is so new, but it's not in any way analogous to a photograph, it's analogous to a painter who saw someone, wrote down some notes on a notepad, went to their studio and painted them. The painting might look realistic but it's not the same as the original photo.
- ProxCoques 2y agoOK but I'm not sure how any of that relates to why separate legislation is needed.