Your anxiety dream relies on there currently being some technical bottleneck limiting the creation or spread of embarassing fake nudes as a way of cyberbullying.
I don't see any evidence of that. What I see is that people who want to embarass and bully others are already fully enabled to do so, and do so.
It seems more likely to me and many of us that the bottleneck that stops it from being worse is simply that only so many people think it's reasonable or satisfying to distribute embarassing fake nudes of someone. Society already shuns it and it's not that effective as a way of bullying and embarassing people, so only so many people are moved to bother.
Assuming that the hyped up new product is due to swoop in and disrupt the cyberbullying "industry" is just a classic technologist's fantasy.
It ignores all the boring realities of actual human behavior, social norms, and secure equilibriums, etc; skips any evidence building or research effort; and just presumes that some new technology is just sooooo powerful that none of that prior ground truth stuff matters.
I get why people who think that way might be on HN or in some Silicon Valley circles, but
it can be one of the eyeroll-inducing vices of these communities as much as it can be one of its motivational virtues.
I don't see any evidence of that. What I see is that people who want to embarass and bully others are already fully enabled to do so, and do so.
It seems more likely to me and many of us that the bottleneck that stops it from being worse is simply that only so many people think it's reasonable or satisfying to distribute embarassing fake nudes of someone. Society already shuns it and it's not that effective as a way of bullying and embarassing people, so only so many people are moved to bother.
Assuming that the hyped up new product is due to swoop in and disrupt the cyberbullying "industry" is just a classic technologist's fantasy.
It ignores all the boring realities of actual human behavior, social norms, and secure equilibriums, etc; skips any evidence building or research effort; and just presumes that some new technology is just sooooo powerful that none of that prior ground truth stuff matters.
I get why people who think that way might be on HN or in some Silicon Valley circles, but it can be one of the eyeroll-inducing vices of these communities as much as it can be one of its motivational virtues.