Lady Owen, 31, the second youngest member of the House of Lords, is spearheading efforts to make the creation or solicitation of deep fake porn – in which explicit photographs or videos of a person are created using AI – illegal.
While it is illegal to share or threaten to share deep fake porn, it is not illegal to create or ask for it to be created. And that is one of many loopholes that Baroness Owen describes as “gaping omissions in our legislation where women are being failed”.
Asked if the threat of this kind of technology was putting off young women from taking on public roles, such as going into politics, Lady Owen said: “I think there’s no doubt that this does have a silencing effect.
Given the technological capability deep fake porn is going to be a commonplace. Just because that’s what folk will do. The only possible reaction from those in public life is going to have to be “Well?”.
Anyway, Lady Owen? Ah, yes, the Spad…..
Sorry Tim but you are being rational, stop it.
I suppose there are some protections against using a person’s likeness without permission, but not many for those in the public eye.
There were plans ( I don’t know if they came to fruition ) to ban sexually explicit cartoons. As long as they don’t breach Warner Bros’ copyright, I fail to see the issue there either.
The accuracy of her stated career history has been disputed, with some asserting that Owen exaggerated both the seniority of her position and the duration that she worked in 10 Downing Street.[11] It has been asserted that she never worked in the Policy Unit.
At last she’s an expert in faking.
I get politicians mixed up; was she the buxom young blonde with very little political experience (and, as John says, rumours that even that little was exaggerated) who was nominated for the Lords in Boris’s resignation honours?
I know I’m getting even more cynical in my old age but is she in fact mature beyond her years or just a seasoned greasy pole climber and she is actually preparing the ground for the publication of evidence of how she achieved her rise to the Lords? “Yes, it’s a real donkey on roller skates but the image of me is just…”
Yes.
“There were plans ( I don’t know if they came to fruition ) to ban sexually explicit cartoons.”
Back in the 1960s, Roy Wood had to hand over all the royalties to one of his songs, Flowers In The Rain I think, after using a saucy cartoon featuring Harold Wilson as promotional material.
I believe that the Japanese are quite keen on sexually explicit cartoons.
The language of women having been ‘failed’ is tiresome and being inspired by a “survivor” of deep fake porn abuse is silly. Words no longer mean anything much.
Asked if the threat of this kind of technology was putting off young women from taking on public roles, such as going into politics, Lady Owen said: “I think there’s no doubt that this does have a silencing effect.
Shut up then.
How do you ban some bloke at home making deepfakes when it needs some images, a movie clip and a PC? In theory, any PC, but the more you spend the faster it does it. Even then, at about £1K, it’ll fair zip through producing a deepfake.
Grist said:
“is she … a seasoned greasy pole climber”
Euphemism?
Grist: possibly, but IMO there are hotter Westminster greasy pole climbers, that bird who wrote that ‘novel’ last year being one of them.
Few here hold a candle to Ms. Maréchal in the looks department, though.