It’s most often used to reference crime because it protects a publisher from defamation, but it doesn’t exclusively refer to crime.

Right? We’ve barely allowed any of his victims time to cope with what’s going on and we’re already expected to give him a pass?

I mean no one would confuse a drawn picture with a real-life video of someone doing or saying something, so while a drawn image may be creepy and assholish, deepfakes are a very real danger of causing reputational damage.

‘Allegedly’ does *not only* denote good or bad, it denotes a state of uncertainty. If Kotaku has not been able to independently verify that Higa responded to his apology, it is correct to say “allegedly”.

In the immortal words of Jeff Winger, “Be sorry before you do this stuff, THEN DON’T DO IT!”

Caught white-handed, tbh

If you can’t think why your image and voice being manipulated to say or do anything that you didn’t actually do is in anyway harmful I must honestly ask what the fuck is wrong with you

Yeah that was bad too, what the hell is your point

Loud part: I’m sorry!

If you can’t understand the difference between an internal mental fantasy and publishing doctored photos and videos designed to imitate real people online where they will exist more or less forever and can follow you for the rest of your life affecting your career, relationships, and other opportunities, then I don’t…

Not “no human being.”

This is a good step and hopefully it’ll help the women affected but honestly if he cared so much he wouldn’t have been looking at deepfake porn of his peers and friends in the first place. It’s disturbing to say the least...

“No! It’s totally real! It only took him six weeks and $60,000 and he’s a completely changed person!” -Gullible Idiots

Whether or not Atric can “live this one down” is an argument for another day, but reading about how bots are fighting bots, in 2023, to take down a very-real problem that’s eluded lawmakers (And lawyers!) is fascinating.

As an outsider, I’m inclined to agree. But imo, that judgment is best reserved for those who were abused and affected by his actions.

All any of these asshats are doing is image repair. They are not sorry for their actions. They just want to get their clicks back.

Anyone who falls for any sort of “apology” when they get caught doing some abhorrent shit is a fool. 

I watched deepfake porn of you, now, how can I help you get over it?

If you think that’s the worst thing that will come out of Pokemon today you have seen nothing yet.

Since I’m watching the dub (thanks for that giant spoiler headline btw), I was assuming they were just going to leave team rocket and continue on as their popular radio/streaming thing they were doing in the latest cours released on Netflix. Guess they blow it trying to steal Ash’s Pokemon at some point during the…

So what?