Cyber police investigates AI-generated monk images

[Coss]

User warning- avert eyes, if Monks having fun, offends you:

on second thought click the link below, the BIB might track this post down, if we post 'em here...

https://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/cyber-police-investigates-ai-generated-monk-images-444931

[Mekong]

Legal actions will be taken separately between those who issued the commands to create these images and those who shared the images on social media.

So Pattaya Mail will now be charged for sharing the images online?

[Coss]

Presumably, but it will them, and not you or me:)

[Coss]

Opinion: Ai-Generated Images Of Naughty Monks Not Real Problem Of Thai Buddhism

excerpt from - https://www.khaosodenglish.com/opinion/2023/11/12/opinion-ai-generated-images-of-naughty-monks-not-real-problem-of-thai-buddhism/

.....The quixotic National Office of Buddhism is back on the news. This time they want the individuals behind a few AI-generated photos of naughty monks playing rock music, drinking alcohol, smoking and singing with beautiful ladies at a karaoke bar, and racing motorcycles literally behind bars – citing the Computer Crime Act.

Basically, the cybercrime act makes importing false information into a computer system a crime punishable by a maximum imprisonment term of five years. The National Office of Buddhism said earlier this week that these viral AI-generated images are degrading Buddhism in Thailand.

Like chasing “maya” (illusion) or a phantom, they will fail as even if the person behind the viral images is in prison, anyone outside the jurisdiction of Thai laws could simply come up with a new version of “naughty Thai monks.” What is more, perhaps they have never heard of this thing called “Streisand effect,” so they end up spreading the awareness about these otherwise harmless images by making sure it becomes news and more people end up becoming curious and wanting to see it.

PM Office Minister Puangpetch Chun-la-iad was more tactful when on Wednesday, she urged the public not to share these images. But then that was after many more Thais and foreigners read the news and became intrigued by the overt sensitivity of these people who supposedly vowed to defend Buddhism.....

The rest of the article is worth a look. Not least for the photo.

Anyone know where I can learn Pali?

[Mekong]

20 minutes ago, Coss said:

perhaps they have never heard of this thing called “Streisand effect,”

I was thinking the same thing, unintended consequences.