Most of us have at least one young woman in our lives that we cherish -- a daughter, niece or goddaughter, for example. Well, this International Women's Day, I learned something that should be concerning to us all. Fully 96% of all deepfakes -- artificial intelligence-generated images and videos that use someone's likeness -- are pornographic and target women without their consent. One well-known case involved an Australian law student who discovered that manipulated pornographic images of her were being shared online when she was just 18. But this isn't an isolated incident.

All the source code used in this project is available here. The Internet is an unfiltered place. There is no guarantee what you would stumble across while you are casually scrolling through your feeds. You could stumble across inappropriate or "Not-Safe-For-Work" images even in unassuming places on the Interweb. This led me to think of a solution that could filter out such content from the web.

It's not an object you can blow up with a missile or send a UN team to inspect, but the technical knowledge of how to identify and exploit a set of systems, written clearly enough that a computer can do it. It's a recipe that can make millions of copies of itself even as it bakes the cake it describes, and even if all copies were to be deleted, all it would take to recreate it is a single person with the technical knowledge writing it down again. It's a poem that, written down, unread by human eyes, causes havoc in the real world. You might as well apply the concepts of "deterrence" and "arms control" to a rumor. By calling them "weapons," politicians and the military, while reflecting the uses for them they desire and fear, misunderstand their nature.