— Maya (@mayahiga) February 1, 2023
Right now there's a "big" controversy that you probably never cared about. In what seems like a flashback to Jeffrey Combs' worst Star Trek: Deep Space Nine character, a deepfake company has made a porn video featuring famous birdwatcher Maya Higa (sadly, the site was already taken down) and a famous Twitch streamer has been shamed (in front of his wife) over it.
Atrioc, who is married, appears to have paid for NSFW deepfake content (via Reddit) from a controversial deepfake site, although this has not yet been confirmed. The tab that was visible during the stream appeared to show a premium service hosted on an OnlyFans-like image-sharing site, where the deepfake creator asks for a $15 per month fee for unlocking their content.
You can certainly think deepfakes are weird and creepy, but to think that there's something particularly novel about them is absurd.
Here's a photo of Maya Higa which she posted in May of 2021. Does she literally not know what every guy did upon first seeing the photo?
All a DeepFake does is take this sort of logic and fill in the gaps. Based on her breasts in the shirt we estimate where her nipples are. If we're really clever like an algorithm would be, we cross reference with a variety of other pictures to get a decently educated guess of what she looks like naked. An AI program might generate an actual digital image of her, of course, but all its doing is what men have been doing already for a very long long long time.
It's the naked girl version of those people who generate AI battles between fleets of starships.
Anybody can just sit down and close their eyes and imagine these scenes, same as anybody can look at Maya Higa's photos and imagine her naked. Some pictures make it easier than others, obviously.
The DeepFake is of course simply a cleaner and better way of filling in the gaps. Some programs try to smooth her face onto a similar frame, which again isn't a new phenomenon but rather just new technology of existing phenomenon. I "removed her clothing" in that photo above, but I could just as easily put her face onto another body, say an existing pornstar.
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| Or, uh, exactly the opposite. |
Uh, wait, that last one was real.
So if Maya Higa was 15 years older she would been awkwardly photoshopped onto this month's Playboy centrefold. If she was 40 years older she would have been awkwardly cutout from a real magazine and taped to the body of this month's Playboy centrefold. If she was 140 years older we would have lewdly modified legitimate paintings of her.
I shouldn't have to be the one to break the news to you, kid. You've been "sexualized" as the common vernacular goes since at least puberty. The day your first YouTube or Twitch video posted, some guy got an erection thinking about you. Before that, the day you first put on summer clothes and walked around in public, you were noticed, and you were "sexualized". Men created whole movies in their brains starring you stripping down and sucking their dicks. Those "deepfake" videos were created without your knowledge (or apparently awareness).
It's not just you. It literally happens all the time. If you go to this video you can watch a walking tour of Taksim Square in Istanbul, taken last April. If you try to scan through the video timeline you'll see a huge jump in the number of repeat views during the time period just before 5:37 in the video. Any guesses why that might be?
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| 85% probability she's been masturbated to. And her friend in the white even more. |
Funny enough, I was trying to find a different Taksim Square walking video featuring hot chicks just out on the street. Of course, you don't have to go online or even to Turkey to see hot girls on the street. Remember this classic from the 2009 Calgary Stampede?
While the Twitch streamer in question did more than just peruse YouTube or Third Edge of the Sword (he paid money, remember), it's part of the ridiculous over-sensitization of society: a hot girl who used her status as a hot girl to become famous now is upset that she's hot and famous enough that people are seeking her out.
She can't be this dumb.
Bonus hot chick action: Pokimane is shocked to discover that her looks get both attention she wants and attention she doesn't.
