Imagine a world where the visages of Thailand’s beloved entertainers, from crooners to silver screen icons, become marionettes in the hands of nefarious ne’er-do-wells. Thanks to the sorcery of generative artificial intelligence, criminals are clandestinely crafting counterfeit carnal capers. These faux frolics, woven from the threads of technology and the stolen likenesses of unwitting victims, are shattering reputations as they are peddled through the shadowy arteries of the digital underworld. This is the sinister scenario unmasked by Royal Thai Police deputy spokesman Pol Maj-General Siriwat Deepor—a cautionary tale of high tech deception and malice.
With a note of gravitas, Siriwat paints a grim tableau: images pirated and portrayed in prurient productions, a phalanx of AI-generated fantasies battering the good names of their human duplicates. But let it be known that in the realm of law, this macabre masquerade is no trivial matter. Swift and severe are the repercussions for conjuring these artificial obscenities.
The gauntlet of prosecution is formidable, encompassing no fewer than six grievous transgressions. Each offence is an affront, a flagrant foul against decency and violation of the code—a codex inscribed with the inflexible ink of Thai jurisprudence.
- Defamation, as decreed by Article 326 of the Criminal Code, is the first sword of justice, poised to strike with one year’s incarceration and fines glistening like twenty thousand baht.
- Next, the cloak of defamation by publicity lurks under Article 328, threatening two years of liberty lost and a purse lightened by two hundred thousand baht.
- Under the shadow of Article 287 (1), the production and hoarding of lewd footage, coupled with the audacity to disperse, dangles a three-year detainment coupled with a sixty-thousand baht admonishment.
- Woe betides the brash advertiser of salacious scenes, violating Article 287 (3), for the fates decree another triennial term and sixty thousand baht demand.
- For those who dare pollute the computer systems with their pornographic pollution, Articles 14 (4) and 14(5) of the Computer Crime Act usher a five-year sojourn behind bars, and a penalty purloining one hundred thousand baht.
- The final reckoning, as ordained by Article 16, befalls those who sully the virtual vault of the computer system with doctored depictions, coaxing contempt or festering hatred—a three-year banishment with two hundred thousand baht in forfeiture.
In a gleam of redress, Siriwat counsels the aggrieved to wield Article 420 of the Civil and Commercial Code like a righteous sword, cleaving a path to recompense. Here, the wronged may summon the specter of justice to claim their due from these peddlers of digital deceit.
O ye who tread the boundless ether, heed this herald’s warning. In this age of artificiality and illusion, safeguard thine image with vigilance, for predators prowl, veiled in virtuality. Let not your likeness be usurped for unspeakable travesties. But take heart, for in the steadfast watch of Thailand’s guardians and the sanctity of its statutes, the dignity of the individual stands unyielding against the dark arts of the digital domain.
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