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Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.

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Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.

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Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.
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    Great. Just dump anyone you dislike as a “pedophile” and then it’s a free for all.

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      especially when you have people like elon musk calling people they don’t like paedophiles and winning defamation suits over it by claiming he calls everyone paedophiles.

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      Hmm, I seem to recall Trump being a pedophile.

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        They don’t actually care about pedophiles; a lot of them are pedophiles

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        Yes.

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      When AI can create any image or video based on another person with their perfect face and voice, besides the scams that will keep increasing, the other great value of the tech is that we going to be able to create any proof and footage we want to incriminate whoever we wish.

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      They are already doing that shit.

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