Do you think you’ll ever regret having pictures on social media, given that people can use AI to manipulate them?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Regret? I've actually thought about taking all my pics down from social media. For one, they serve no real purpose. Anyone I care about knows what I look like.😆 But i wouldn't b3 taking them down for the reason you seem to be suggesting. I'm on nobody's radar. Who would steal my Pic, alter it, and why would they? But I have had perfect strangers on Facebook go to my Facebook page copy one of my pics and post it on a thread critiquing me simply because I made a comment about Pamela Andersons underbite being very noticeable since she ditched the makeup. I don't know why any woman would get so bent out of shape of comment that was NOT about her but she did and there was more than one nutcase that has done this. I don't care that she critiques me. She can do that all day. I know what I look like.😆 But I don't think Facebook should allow people to copy your pics and post them wherever they want to.

ManOnFire · Accepted Answer

That is exactly why I took most of mine down last year. I'm sure someone or some AI still has them out there somewhere, but at least they won't get anything new.

People do not think about how scammers and AI steal your pics and pretend to be someone else, or at least they don't take it seriously and don't care enough. They can even be used to falsely accuse you of a crime or some other misdeed you really didn't do. I remember years back I had a friend on Experience Project and did a reverse image search on her pics and found they were used on a porn site. When I told her I found her pics elsewhere she said she didn't even want to know, that she was sure they were being used out there.

About 70% of the internet is now fake because of bots and is abused and misused more often being used for good.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/M74PJiuozC0

Kelley1 · Accepted Answer

I am not concerned about such stuff. It doesn't matter what someone using AI does. It is not like I'm the president or some other VIP. Therefore, no one is going to be searching for me. Moreover, if it becomes common, people will not believe the photos anyway.

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Accepted Answer

I imagine the determined already have. And before that, people were jerking off to my photos without my knowledge or consent. It doesn’t change much.

Tamera952 · Answer

I don’t have any on there! Not one! …not once, not ever, have I been tagged in an online picture, and I have never, ever posted one of myself. I was an early skeptic at the debut of social media, especially back in the wild days early days when it was all new, and everyone was over sharing, posting pictures of their kids, and (in my opinion) far too much personal stuff, with nonexistent privacy controls, with everyone basically set to ‘public’, etc. … that from day one I thought to myself, … ‘This is not a good idea, and is not going to turn out well’. And once you post it, it’s gone—you’ll never be able to get that back.

The supposed premise of social media has always run counter to my personality in general, and it wasn’t hugely out of character for me to resist such public sharing. I watched amused, but often in horror at what everyone I knew was airing and posting online for a long time. That said, it doesn’t mean I never engaged with it —of course I did, often, but always, always, under a pseudonym, and never ever giving any site any real info if I could avoid it, and certainly not any pictures of myself.

I paid it little mind and it was more amusement and fun, than anything I took serious, always keeping it at arms length. People became not just beholden to it, but overwhelmed by it. Those ones usually were where it became part of their identity and validation —that craved likes, and were always one-upping one another, and all that other crazy extreme behavior—I just never really understood it. I kind of felt bad that younger kids were so affected by it, and wished more of them just said ‘no’ to it, hoping it would become ‘cool’ for them to buck the trend, and realize how silly most of it is, but unfortunately I almost never saw any examples of that.

It was after reading at length about Edward Snowden, and other early whistle blowers about all the programs and nefarious clandestine activities of our government, not to mention other online entities, (which basically confirmed what we all already suspected they were doing) that I felt somewhat vindicated and glad to have been wary of it. But yeah, sorry for going on a tangent.

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Anonymous · Answer

Nope because everyone is subject to the same manipulation now and someone can take a photo of me anywhere and do the same thing.

The worst thing right now is facial recognition which will become available to everyone soon. Then someone you don't know can take your picture and find out everything about you in seconds.

They've already had this for years in airports and hospitals and big stores and companies you go into, and government offices.

Soon it will be an app on everyone's phone and then people will start complaining about privacy but as usual it will be too late to close the barn door.

WonderingManII · Answer

I took my pictures down years ago before the big AI thing. I realized that once you put a picture out online anyone can do anything with it they want! I feared that someone might not like me and decide to use my ugliness against me by treating me like a creep online.

itsannalee · Answer

If someone gets scammed or manipulated with my picture, it's not even my loss. So it won’t even bother me to think about them.

sawno · Answer

Nope, I never uploaded any. But yes for the people that did your appearance is now up for grabs and anyone can make easy edits to the pictures.

CountryWanderer · Answer

I'm not happy about social media companies using images of me, but not to where I'll take them down

queenofcardio · Answer

That's why I don't post on social. I haven't in years ,

jshm2 · Answer

Lol, dont be daft. By your logic, you should never talk, either. As someone might copy your voice...

Nikki1989 · Answer

I don't care. I have more important things to think about.

Anonymous · Answer

Nah, you have to be attractive for people to want to do that, I'm not

Anonymous · Answer

No, if they find my cloud storage they won't need to manipulate anything.

WhitneySnow · Answer

You raise a good point

DishLady · Answer

Nah. There's nothing on my socials that is bad.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

I don't post photos of myself.

exitseven · Answer

no, I do not put up pictures of myself.

ABC1x1x · Answer

I dont have pictures on social media

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