Opinion | Deepfake Nudes Are Haunting America’s Teens

my oldest had some girl's picture deepfaked at his school last year, stuff spread like crazy before anyone could stop it. about time someone made these companies actually deal with it instead of just saying "we're working on it."

"finally" is doing a lot of work here, we've been suing tech companies about everything for like 15 years

These tech bros have known about this for years and done absolutely nothing, so yeah they deserve to get sued into oblivion.

The lawsuits are necessary but they're going after the wrong people if tech companies are the defendants. The apps being used for this stuff are either years old or deliberately obscure, and no platform is going to solve the distribution problem until we actually prosecute the people creating and sharing the images.

This is literally destroying kids' mental health and the companies had EVERY opportunity to build safeguards before it became an epidemic. About damn time someone made them pay for negligence.

The real bottleneck here isn't the lawsuits, it's that most states still don't have specific statutes against nonconsensual deepfake imagery, so courts are going to spend years fighting over whether this falls under existing revenge porn laws or defamation or what.

There's a meaningful difference between holding platforms accountable for content users create versus holding them accountable for failing to remove it once reported, and I'd like to see the lawsuits actually specify which one they're going after.