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A face-swapping app shows how easily deep fake tech can be used as a 'weapon' against women
A face-swapping app shows how easily deep fake tech can be used as a 'weapon' against womenApp stores removed Facemega, a deepfake app that put Emma Watson's face in a suggestive video.
The suggestive ad was promoted on Meta, which later removed it following reporting from NBC News.
An attorney said new deepfake tech could become a "weapon" of harassment against women and girls.
Multiple online stores and Meta have removed a controversial face swap app that promoted a sexually suggestive ad featuring the face of the "Harry Potter" actor Emma Watson imposed onto someone else.
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A face-swapping app shows how easily deep fake tech can be used as a 'weapon' against women (Original Post)
ItsjustMe
Mar 2023
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I haven't seen the Emma Watson face video, but the point was made much more effectively with
Bucky
Mar 2023
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Tetrachloride
(7,721 posts)1. jfc
Bucky
(53,795 posts)2. I haven't seen the Emma Watson face video, but the point was made much more effectively with
The Arnold Schwarzenegger in Titanic video
"I vant you to draw me like one of your Frintsch gurls. Vearing dis. Vearing only diss..."
Scrivener7
(50,773 posts)3. Why is every new technology eventually used as a weapon against women?
hlthe2b
(101,699 posts)4. Exactly. Think of how it can be used to harm women in the workplace. Naive' employers
that receive these kinds of images or videos WILL believe it--especially if they are already predisposed to think the worst about most women.
Scrivener7
(50,773 posts)5. I'm glad I'm not a young woman out in the dating world anymore.
These technologies have made peeved exes a nightmare.
Delphinus
(11,808 posts)6. And you know
it will be used against politicians too. But, yes, way too many women will be the ones who pay a price from this.