When you post a photo on social networks, you are not only for your friends or subscribers. In addition to other users, there is also the information collected by the different platforms used. As Lisa Ventura reminds us:
All the photos you post lead to facial recognition of algorithms and build consumer profiles for advertising.
Even if we can argue that we cannot see the face below the emoji, it remains better to be very careful with this practice. AI are now capable of reconstructing blurred or partially masked faces, which raises serious issues in terms of image and security rights for online children. Let us not forget that we are the first to feed these AI, and that our information is their raw material.
Their drifts are already observed in particularly worrying cases, as in pedocriminals who use these technologies to nourish their networks on Dark Web or encrypted platforms. Thanks to bots And a technique called “Scraping”, they scour the different social networks to extract children’s photos in order to integrate them into child pornographic databases.
Generative artificial intelligence software is also used to create sexual images featuring fictitious children … but often inspired by real children. Hourish photos (beach, bath, gymnastics …) can also be found on malicious forums, with explicit comments which divert them in problematic ways. Note that legal proceedings are quite complex, because the laws are not yet clear in these particular contexts.
