When Francesca Mani was 14 years old, boys at her New Jersey high school used nudify apps to target her and other girls. At the time, adults did not seem to take the harassment seriously, telling her to move on after she demanded more severe consequences than just a single boy’s one or two-day suspension.
Mani refused to take adults’ advice, going over their heads to lawmakers who were more sensitive to her demands. And now, she’s won her fight to criminalize deepfakes. On Wednesday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a law that he said would help victims “take a stand against deceptive and dangerous deepfakes” by making it a crime to create or share fake AI nudes of minors or non-consenting adults—as well as deepfakes seeking to meddle with elections or damage any individuals’ or corporations’ reputations.
as well as deepfakes seeking to meddle with elections or damage any individuals’ or corporations’ reputations.
Everything before this doesn’t matter. This is the onlyreason for that law - they want to criminalize any sort of satire. Who exactly will be determining the line between a deepfake and a caricature?
It could mean that effectively caricature artists become one of the first professions protected by law from AI slop, kind of accidentally, and I don’t have that much problem with that.
Thats why I pick long dead niche ppl for my ais appearence
Based.
They had me until the last three words.
School administrators not caring about the well-being of their students, because they’re just kids and so who gives a shit what happens to them?
Color me shocked. I think the underlying reason is that the kids don’t have the societal standing to fight back. She should move on to suing the school for conspiracy to distribute child pornography, violating their role as mandatory reporters, IDK about the legalisms but she should pick whatever the best option is and try her best to fuck them up. Maybe they’d handle it differently in the future if it involves some consequences for them.
Who would pay to run the law suit? I doubt she has about $80k to spare.
And who would pay the legal costs of the other side if she loses? Wins are never a sure thing.
Hollywood movies of heroic legal battles often ignore this.
Sometime lawyer take a case pro bono, maybe they think the case helps their firm with publicity, or maybe they feels like the same thing can happen to their loved one so its better to set a good precedent.
In this case, she did the even smarter thing, went straight to the lawmaker so it’s punishable by law in the future.
Yeah. The whole experience might fail and would probably turn out to be punishing for her and her family in a variety of ways. I’m just saying how I would hope it to happen. I pictured one of the school administrators on the stand under oath, having to explain themselves to people with more authority than them, and it was too compelling to let go of.
Furthermore…
Until recently, if it was in Australia she could have been gagged by the court supposedly for her own protection.
So a court decision could go against her for absurd reasons which ignore facts but nobody would be allowed to talk publicly about such injustice.
Grace “Tame was groomed and repeatedly sexually assaulted by a paedophile teacher, but for years Tasmania’s gag laws meant she was unable to speak out, while her abuser bragged on Facebook.”
Similar gag laws still apply in Australia.
