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In 2011, when I was fourteen, I was outed as trans by someone that I thought was my best friend. As a result, three of my classmates raped me with an object on school grounds before classes began one morning. I reported it to the principal. Her response was “Well, that’s what happens. What have we learned?”, basically saying that me being trans meant that I should have expected to be raped and that I’d deserved it.

(Previously, one of the rapists had taken a nude photo of me while I was changing and uploaded it to MySpace. I had also reported this to the principal, and she’d told me I was “creating problems where there are none”. MySpace took it down at least, so I guess Tom cared more about my safety than the adult whose literal job was to protect kids.)

I was very, very quickly expelled from the school after the rape. I’m not sure what the official “reason” given was, my parents didn’t tell me. They also didn’t fight it, considering what had happened. I had to be homeschooled until graduation.

I became selectively mute after this, a problem that remains to this day. The rapists never got punished for what they did to me. The local PD (in Texas) never followed up on the report my parents made.

Sad that nothing’s changed about how schools handle sexual abuse in the almost-fifteen-years that have passed since then.

AI is just highlighting existing issues in society, like sexism.

Create deep fakes of the staff and faculty. Email it to them and their spouses. See if they understand how damaging it is after that. I'm sure they'll want to give you a knuckle sandwich. Fuck them! If it were my child I would have stood by her decision

Nothing is real or can be considered real anymore. We are going to need new frameworks to handle a world where video of illegal or embarrassing things can be trivially created by anyone.

People saying the Ai vendor should be liable, but that's short-sighted for a world where anyone can do this at home with largely anonymous distribution.

For years [decades even] I've sought (inadequately) to avoid cameras, aware (in part from my art and special effects aptitude and education) this sort of thing and more, were coming. And now it's here. And maybe now more mice will realise, in the trap, that it's a trap. :/ Wasn't an easy thing to try to warn people about, when so many were incapable of conceiving of the threat. Let alone to get sufficient awareness in sufficient people to affect good change to avert such. Though, mostly I'd only considered the threat from government & corporations. Here now it's in the hands of almost anyone. And far faster and easier. What "fun". :-|