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> The harm comes from falsely accusing someone of rape, not the deepfake itself. This can be done with or without a deepfake. The person I was responding to sa
by acdha 2y ago
> The harm comes from falsely accusing someone of rape, not the deepfake itself. This can be done with or without a deepfake.
The person I was responding to said they were not “a concern at all”, but clearly that can’t be true if they make harassment and false accusations easier and more damaging. Similarly, we shouldn’t dismiss the impact of making those attacks stronger - it’s like saying that giving a kid a gun is no big deal because they used to have a slingshot.
You missed the reason why I mentioned that scenario. It’s not just that the targeted teacher gets harassed — and, let’s be honest, that’d be a lot of aggression just below the threshold of serious disciplinary measures – but that something like that would if found trigger a mandatory law enforcement response. School employees tend to be mandatory reporters so they don’t have the option of saying “that’s a fake, he’s probably lying”.
The real harm is that unless it’s a very obvious fake, the victim is going to have to go through a police investigation into their personal life. Want to bet that’d especially be used to target people who have reason not to trust the police because they’re gay, brown, not an evangelical Christian, etc.?
- Manuel_D 2y agoI'm not an evangelical Christian, and I trust the police. I think you have a very warped understanding of how the police would respond to such a video. Their first thing would be to interview the student in the video. And the student would confirm that it's a fake. Unless the student was deliberately trying to frame the teacher. Which, again, could be accomplished by lying without a video.
- acdha 2y agoI respectfully suggest that the world has fewer perfectly spherical cows than your dismissal depends on.
- Manuel_D 2y agoYour concern stems from spherical cows: you're treating law enforcement as automatons that can't think. In your scenario, the police will either interview the student depicted in the video who will confirm that it's fake. Or they'll fail to identify a victim at all, and have no basis on which to proceed.