Data Points: AI-Facilitated Crime & Abuse (featuring Dr. Aiden Hirshfield)
Something Was Wrong
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🗓️ 3 September 2024
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Summary
*Content Warning: digital violence, non-consensual distribution of intimate images, doxxing, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, grooming, exploitation, child sexual abuse material, internalized misogyny, hate crimes, racism, transphobia, and homophobia.
Resources:
Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3): https://www.ic3.gov/
National Domestic Violence Hotline: https://www.thehotline.org/
Take It Down: https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/
THORN: https://info.thorn.org/
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Bernard Marr. May 8, 2024. The Important Difference Between Generative AI And AGI. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2024/05/08/the-important-difference-between-generative-ai-and-agi/
Deeptrace Labs. (2019). The State of Deepfakes: Landscape, Threats, & impact. https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/10/08/deepfake_report.pdf
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FACT SHEET: Presidential Memorandum Establishing the White House Task Force to address online harassment and abuse. (2022). https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/16/fact-sheet-presidential-memorandum-establishing-the-white-house-task-force-to-address-online-harassment-and-abuse/#:~:text=The%20Department%20of%20Justice%20(DOJ)%20will%20implement%20new%20statutory%20provisions,at%20the%20intersection%20with%20domestic
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THORN. (2023, April 11). Online Grooming: What it is, how it happens, and how to defend children. https://www.thorn.org/blog/online-grooming-what-it-is-how-it-happens-and-how-to-defend-children/
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Dr. Aiden Hirshfield:
Dr. Hirshfield’s website: https://www.aidenhirshfield.com/
Media Psyched Podcast: https://www.aidenhirshfield.com/podcast
Dr. Hirshfield’s Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/dr.aidenhirshfield
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| 0:00.0 | Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to something was wrong early and ad free right now. |
| 0:06.0 | Join Wundry Plus in the Wundry App or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:19.8 | Hi friends, it's Dr. Aidan Hirschfield, media psychologist and researcher from the Media Psych podcast. I'm guest hosting this episode of Broken Cycle Media's new series of educational |
| 0:24.0 | episodes called Data Points. These special episodes will include |
| 0:27.5 | educational information, statistics, and support on different topics that are |
| 0:31.4 | important to our community. Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:36.1 | Digital violence is an umbrella term to describe an array of harmful digitally based behaviors |
| 0:41.3 | that can lead to other forms of digital abuse or harassment. |
| 0:45.0 | This includes but is not limited to the non-consensual distribution of intimate images such |
| 0:50.0 | as revenge porn, publishing a private information about someone online with malicious intent, |
| 0:55.6 | also known as doxing, cyberstocking, or cyberbullying, impersonations such as deep fakes, |
| 1:01.7 | and even extortion, commonly known as blackmail. |
| 1:05.0 | Other forms of digital abuse include grooming, a term used broadly to describe the tactics |
| 1:10.9 | abusers deploy through the internet to sexually exploit minors. |
| 1:15.0 | As the nonprofit organization Thorne puts it, |
| 1:18.0 | grooming can happen quickly or over time, |
| 1:21.0 | but at its core it's a process of exploiting trust to shift expectations of what |
| 1:26.0 | safe behavior is and leveraging fear and shame to keep a child silent. |
| 1:30.8 | It is difficult but important reality to face so that we can take steps to stop it. |
| 1:36.3 | So although these forms of violence may differ in the ways they are inflicted, they often |
| 1:41.0 | share common themes. Rights of cyber and digital abuse are substantial. |
| 1:45.0 | Many of our listeners have likely been victims of digital violence in their lifetime or |
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