Troy Hunt: Weekly Replace 421 – Tech Journal

It wasn’t straightforward speaking concerning the Muah.AI knowledge breach. It is not simply the rampant little one sexual abuse materials all through the system (or at the least requests for the AI to generate photos of it), it is the reactions of individuals to it. The tweets justifying it on the idea of there being noo “precise” abuse, the characterisation of this being akin to “merely ideas in somebody’s head”, and following my recording of this video, the backlash from their customers about any makes an attempt to curb creating sexual picture of younger youngsters being “an excessive amount of”:

Which is making clients sad – “any censorship is an excessive amount of”: pic.twitter.com/fzfrFdKL8w

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) October 12, 2024

The legislation will meet up with this (and anybody in that breach creating this form of materials needs to be really feel very bloody nervous proper now), and the writing is already on the wall for folks producing CSAM by way of AI:

This invoice would develop the scope of sure of those provisions to incorporate matter that’s digitally altered or generated by way of synthetic intelligence, as such matter is outlined.

The invoice cannot move quickly sufficient.

References

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2. The Muah.AI knowledge breach revealed an unlimited quantity of requests for CSAM materials (you possibly can hear me struggling to even correctly clarify this, it is simply arduous to seek out the phrases)
3. Web Archive was breached, defaced and DDoS’d (4 days on from that tweet thread, they’re nonetheless offline)
4. Nationwide Public Knowledge – the service that siphoned up tons of of thousands and thousands of social safety numbers then uncovered all of them in a breach – is useless (now, what number of extra of those are left?)