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Jer Thorp

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Artist, writer, educator, birder & nudibranch enthusiast. Author of Living in Data (MCDxFSG).
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social

NEW: A survey found that about 1 in 5 teens have used AI to generate sexual content, or know someone who has; often, that AI content depicted someone they personally knew. About 40% of teens said that deepfakes are changing the way they use (or don't use) the internet. futuris…

The Proliferation of Deepfakes Is Profoundly Changing the Way Teenagers Use the Internet futurism.com
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  • A Common Sense Media survey of 1,314 US teens aged 13-17 found nearly 50% had encountered content they believed to be AI-generated sexual material.
  • About 40% of surveyed teens responded by making social accounts private, limiting shares, or deleting accounts entirely, and 67% worried about being victimized.
  • Roughly 8% of teens admitted creating AI-generated sexual content, and more than 60% of those creators targeted people they personally knew.
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Jer Thorp | Speaking jerthorp.me
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Here is my considered response to the AI + math discourse.

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This time around when the "I made crazy bank for five years at the AI company but now I am telling you how evil they are" folks come out of the woodwork... Can we just tell them to get fucked?

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First question of the presser needs to be "Roberto did you use ChatGPT to build this squad?" We need the truth. #COYS

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