• juicy@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    “The sextortion involved at least 12,600 victims—primarily boys—and led to at least 20 suicides.”

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      7 months ago

      Ho-ly shit. What the everloving fuck 20 suicides?

      12,000? That’s multiple people a day jesus fuck

      -edit Wait, was this for all cases because I read it initially as one woman did it

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        She was part of an international ring that led to the suicides with that number of victims

        Edit: I’m wrong, that’s the sum of the FBIs and homeland security findings over two years

        “From October 2021 to March 2023, the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations received over 13,000 reports of online financial sextortion of minors,” the FBI’s announcement said. “The sextortion involved at least 12,600 victims—primarily boys—and led to at least 20 suicides.”

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          It still sounds like a surprisingly large number of people. And those are only going to be the people that they know about.

          And I don’t see how this is gonna go away if people are gonna want to have sex video chats with random people.

          You can’t really avoid someone recording audio and video even with some sort of trusted hardware rollout. At minimum, the analog hole is gonna be there, and you aren’t gonna need fantastic fidelity for extortion. And there’s clearly demand for sex chats.

          Hmm.

          Well, I don’t know this works socially. Like, are people using video chat services that provides their real identity to the other end? One way would be to run it pseudononymously, where all parties aren’t identifiable. With facial recognition where it is today, faces at least would have to be hidden. Maybe use a real-time generated face. Hard to extort people if you don’t know who they are.

          Another is maybe just to take the human out of the loop. I wonder how hard it is to put together a locally-executed sex chatbot with video generation and image recognition and eliminate the problem on the supply side? We’ve got chatbots, got voice synth, got video generation – dunno about real-time – and got image recognition.

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        7 months ago

        Don’t kill yourself over nudes. Literally no one else cares.