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How the fuck is the internet getting scarier? This isn't the random gore and porn filled, go to a forum and immediately get targeted by a sex-predator, internet that I grew up with. The internet is a corporate walled garden of mega services that feed disinformation and bullshit to people, but your odds of getting genuinely victimized as a child are so much lower than they used to be.
Lol, no. Very accessible AI tools can make the pictured kids do whatever the fuck the creator wants. It's easier than ever to steal identities and ruin lives. The internet still is full of porn and gore but that hardly is the problem. Also, brainwashing via social media is a really big and scary problem. The internet absolutely is scarier then aver before.
This applies to adults too though. Should we outlaw posting any pictures of anybody online, just because AI exists? I don't think so...
Who's talking about outlawing anything? I simply stated that the internet has indeed become a scarier place compared to the past.
Also, parents are responsible for their kids and the kids aren't capable of consenting to publishing their pictures as they can't understand the implications that come with it. Grown-ups can do whatever the hell they want, though I feel a general education on how the Internet works might be a good idea.
The difference with kids is that we don't consider them to have the ability to properly consent or take responsibility for themselves because they haven't fully developed yet. Hence no voting, drinking, driving, sex etc.