Italy prime minister Giorgia Meloni seeks €100,000 damages over deepfake porn videos

Giorgia Meloni will testify at a court in the Sardinian city of Sassari in a bid to send a message about the problem

Italy’s prime minister is seeking €100,000 (£85,374) in damages after deepfake pornographic videos of her were shared on the internet.

‘Deepfakes’ are images or videos where the face of one person, in this case Giorgia Meloni, is digitally put onto the body of another.

Two men accused of making the videos, a father and son aged 74 and 40, are being investigated.

Nobody,

previous research conducted by cybersecurity firm Deeptrace indicated around 96 per cent of all deepfake videos are non-consensual pornography, while women are targets in 96 per cent of cases.

I was vaguely aware the problem was bad, but 96% is just staggering.

gaael,

When I said “fuck that racist piece of shit”, it’s not what I had in mind.

Meloni is a trash politician who pushes Italy towards fascism, but I find it appalling that she’s being degraded specifically as a women this way.
There are enough valid criticisms and enough ways to satire her shitty views without sexualizing without her approval.

I hope she loses in all the other domains but I hope she (and all the other people who have to go through this kindof stuff) wins this thing.

mozz,
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a father and son aged 74 and 40

wtf

AdamEatsAss,

I’m not usually into father son porn but I guess I’ll try this one.

AdamEatsAss,

That’s disgusting. Where? Someone send me the link so I know to avoid it.

DarkThoughts,

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=deepfake+porn&ia=web
Must be hard not to know how to use a search engine in 2024.

robdor,

That’s not the link. Nice try Italian prime minister.

DarkThoughts,

It's literally the first result my dude.

AdamEatsAss,

Must be hard not to know how to not sound like a dick in 2024.

DarkThoughts,

I do know, I just don't give a shit any more since everyone is hell bent on moving us towards extinction.

SavedKriss,

Then again when someone made a manga version of her that appealed to her Nazi electorate she didn’t say anything.

I call shenanigans.

theworstshepard,

https://lemmynsfw.com/pictrs/image/5424e333-cf70-47ee-9602-3c0cff3851ac.gif

mp3,
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4chan’s /gif/ is gonna go BRRRR over it

nucleative,

The risk of a Streisand effect here is pretty high. Hope she’s thought it through.

Regrettably, were going to see more and more apps and websites that just automate this kind of abuse.

It’ll be sold as a new way to watch porn. Just upload a few pics of your crush and check the boxes for which acts you want to see, and boom, you’re downloading it.

It’s gonna be a wild ride for a while, no pun intended.

DarkThoughts,

Alright. Where do you want to draw the line? At the automation? How do you put that into legislation that wouldn't also ban manual editing methods? What if someone just face swapped & edited every single frame manually? Would even provide a much better result than those "AI" algorithms.

This is just media hysteria.

yildolw,

The historical difficulty is enforceability. That made the usual line “no making money on your creepy idiocy”, because once money is involved there are levers of enforcement. Advertising support is one form of making money

kent_eh, (edited )

Where do you want to draw the line? At the automation? How do you put that into legislation that wouldn’t also ban manual editing methods?

One difference is that manual editing methods take some amount of skill and time.

Automated removes that barrier and makes it possible for people to make hundreds/millions of images in little time, in bulk and with no effort or skill.

Manual will be more limited in its abundance (and presumably spread) due to those limits.

DarkThoughts,

The difference is kinda the same. You could've paid someone to photoshop shit too, now you pay for some dubious "AI" services instead of setting them up yourself, which is a major difference in difficulty and would quickly take away the illusion of the whole "AI" magic.

Either way, I don't really care. Let them do it. As long as they don't use it to make money or for things like blackmail or harassment it should be up to them what they jerk off to. I doubt the fascist melon experienced much if any actual damage from that. She literally did not give a shit about the depictions of her as a fascist but somehow some bad deepfake porn videos are crossing the line. Yeah... Right...

CptEnder,

Yeah it’s pretty messed up, not fair for anyone to experience this whether it’s Taylor Swift or this conservative PM.

Viking_Hippie,

conservative fascist PM

Fixed that for you. It’s important not to normalize fascism by pretending that it’s just your usual possibly somewhat benign conservatism.

Moonrise2473,

who watches porn that features a far-right politician???

swab148,
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I wonder if we Americans should do this for our politicians, maybe we’ll get some 21st century technology laws

OttoVonNoob,

There’s a adult film called who’s banging Pailin based on Sarah Pailin… On top of that porn satire was very popular, Jon Stewart released a book with artitists renditions of all the members of the Supreme Court nude.

floofloof,

who’s banging Pailin

I think it was “nailin’”, for the rhyme. Sad that I know this.

cupcakezealot,
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nazis

bitwaba,

Lisa Ann’s porn career blew up when she played the lead in Who’s Nailin’ Paylin?

ikidd,
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Is she wearing a collar and taking it in the ass?

If so, then… me.

DieguiTux8623,

I’m feeling sick 🤢

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