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1092 points meetpateltech | 5 comments | 26 Aug 25 14:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.371s | source
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atleastoptimal ◴[27 Aug 25 01:34 UTC] No.45034465[source]▶
I can imagine an automated blackmail bot that scrapes image, video, voice samples from anyone with the most meagre online presence, which then creates high resolution videos of that person doing the most horrid acts, then threatening to share those videos with that person's family, friends and business contacts unless they are paid $5000 in a cryptocurrency to an anonymous address.

And further, I can imagine some person actually having such footage of themselves being threatened to be released, then using the former narrative as a cover story were it to be released. Is there anything preventing AI generated images, video, etc from being always detectible by software that can intuit if something is AI? what if random noise is added, would the "Is AI" signal persist just as much as the indication to human that the footage seems real?

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1. UltraSane ◴[27 Aug 25 04:32 UTC] No.45035482[source]▶
But these new amazing AI image generators lets you just say "It wasn't me, it is an AI fake". Long term they will seriously devalue blackmail material.

I read a scifi novel where they invented a wormhole that only light could pass through but it could be used as a camera that could go anywhere and eventually anytime and there was absolutely no way to block it. So some people adapted to this fact by not wearing clothes anymore.

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2. Revisional_Sin ◴[27 Aug 25 05:58 UTC] No.45035903[source]▶
> So some people adapted to this fact by not wearing clothes anymore.

Erm... What?

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3. SirFredman ◴[27 Aug 25 07:25 UTC] No.45036490[source]▶
The light of other days, by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. Really cool book.
4. UltraSane ◴[27 Aug 25 12:33 UTC] No.45038776[source]▶
Because anyone could use the wormhole camera to see anyone naked. It made modesty effectively impossible.
5. geysersam ◴[28 Aug 25 02:18 UTC] No.45047609[source]▶
Don't know why you're being downvoted. That is the logical conclusion.

Although, there's also a chance that those "blackmail gangs" never materialize. After all, you could already ten years ago pay cheap labor to create reasonably good fake images using Photoshop.