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ItsjustMe

(11,971 posts) Sun Mar 19, 2023, 12:35 AM Mar 2023

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 women

App 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 OP

jfc Tetrachloride Mar 2023 #1

I haven't seen the Emma Watson face video, but the point was made much more effectively with Bucky Mar 2023 #2

Why is every new technology eventually used as a weapon against women? Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #3

Exactly. Think of how it can be used to harm women in the workplace. Naive' employers hlthe2b Mar 2023 #4

I'm glad I'm not a young woman out in the dating world anymore. Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #5

And you know Delphinus Mar 2023 #6

Tetrachloride

(9,624 posts)

1. jfc

Reply to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Sun Mar 19, 2023, 01:06 AM

Mar 2023

Bucky

(55,334 posts)

2. I haven't seen the Emma Watson face video, but the point was made much more effectively with

Reply to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Sun Mar 19, 2023, 06:32 AM

Mar 2023

The Arnold Schwarzenegger in Titanic video

"I vant you to draw me like one of your Frintsch gurls. Vearing dis. Vearing only diss..."

Scrivener7

(59,522 posts)

3. Why is every new technology eventually used as a weapon against women?

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Sun Mar 19, 2023, 08:28 AM

Mar 2023

hlthe2b

(113,973 posts)

4. Exactly. Think of how it can be used to harm women in the workplace. Naive' employers

Reply to Scrivener7 (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 19, 2023, 09:15 AM

Mar 2023

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

(59,522 posts)

5. I'm glad I'm not a young woman out in the dating world anymore.

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #4)

Sun Mar 19, 2023, 09:18 AM

Mar 2023

These technologies have made peeved exes a nightmare.

Delphinus

(12,522 posts)

6. And you know

Reply to Scrivener7 (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 19, 2023, 09:48 AM

Mar 2023

it will be used against politicians too. But, yes, way too many women will be the ones who pay a price from this.

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