Fuck AI

I have been thinking about this for a long time. Why is it that it bothers people if others see them naked?

According to the scientific worldview starting from 1800, the world is real. That means that things you can touch, exist. And things that can not be measured don't exist. Also the things of interest in the world are those that are "conserved quantities", like if a hypothetical variable jumps around randomly, it's not a good data source because it's volatile and random. The things that matter are masses in space and time, because those are continuous and don't jump around rapidly. Masses in space and time can only be modified if you work on them (and that requires effort), and no significant change can be brought to masses by purely thinking about them (no "spooky action at a distance", no "telekinesis") or wishing for their change ("wishful thinking" is seen as ineffective).

That makes me wonder: Why do people freak out so much if i think about them? If i think lewd thoughts about somebody who didn't consent to this, why do people not like that? What difference does it make to them if i think about them? What difference does it make if i look at a picture of them naked? By purely thinking about them, i can not change anything meaningful about reality, therefore it shouldn't matter, right?

Serious question: if you show an AI an image of a 14-year-old girl, taken from her public Instagram account — what the article says was used to generate fake nudes of her to harass her — how does the AI know she's 14 and not 18? Or to flip it, if you show it an 18-year-old, how does it know she isn't 14 — or 17?

What we think of as "a child" is not what the law defines as a child. For the law, it's 17 and under. For most people, "child" means like, 12 and under. Older than that, they're a teenager, literally, or also an adolescent. Not saying it makes it okay to look at them. But it does make it harder for technology to determine their legality (age of majority).

As a human, how do you tell if a young-looking nude woman you see on an NSFW Lemmy comm is legal or not? If she's in the US, typically you have to be 18 to get a tattoo, so a tattoo in an intimate area implies she was of legal age to get said tattoo, though they can be done by amateurs and there may be some pros who don't ask for ID. But it's one way, you see ink, you assume age of majority. At the very least it's plausible deniability. You can't say pubic hair (or stubble of the same) because that's typically shaven/waxed in grown women. It's a trend, and a popular one at that. The fact is, you don't. You have some criteria and it helps you sleep at night knowing you have some standards. Maybe you saw a 15-17 year old who passed your internal checks and you thought she was legal. Maybe you're above it all and you don't even look at naked people online, but that's beside the point that many still do.

To be clear, I'm as against these "nudify" type apps as anybody. I just want to know how they're expected to tell a perhaps mature teenager from an under-developed adult without asking for ID. Because that's another slippery slope we don't want to go down, but already are. Needing ID to access parts of the Internet, with the true purpose being to identify who is looking at what.