The charges, announced Thursday by the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office, came as Lancaster Country Day School has been facing mounting pressure over its response to the deepfakes.
Separately… we don’t know how much variation there was in the source images. There is a lot of difference between your hypothetical fire-and-forget and the hypothetical on the other end, where the illegal images are mostly comprised of unique source images.
It’s all hair-splitting, because at the end of the day, between the accused, their parents, and the environment around them, these kids should have been taught better than to do this.
Yes, I know the law doesn’t care how they were generated. It was more just bringing up a point of consideration in the discussion.
Even unique source images don’t mean much. If you have the know how, it’s one script to scrape the hundreds of images and a second one to modify them all.
Again, not defending the kids. I’m just adding a technical perspective to the discussion
Not in the eyes of the law it isn’t.
Separately… we don’t know how much variation there was in the source images. There is a lot of difference between your hypothetical fire-and-forget and the hypothetical on the other end, where the illegal images are mostly comprised of unique source images.
It’s all hair-splitting, because at the end of the day, between the accused, their parents, and the environment around them, these kids should have been taught better than to do this.
Yes, I know the law doesn’t care how they were generated. It was more just bringing up a point of consideration in the discussion.
Even unique source images don’t mean much. If you have the know how, it’s one script to scrape the hundreds of images and a second one to modify them all.
Again, not defending the kids. I’m just adding a technical perspective to the discussion