👀 How many ways your digital assets will be stolen or exploited on social media?

Have you ever thought that one image you posted on a social media platform would become a “bullet” targeting you?

According to reports, an influencer was shocked to find that her selfies became a hugely popular TikTok meme and was described as an AI faker. Similar incidents happen every day, you might see a familiar influencer’s portrait on a dating app, but it’s not her. You might also see a foreign video re-posted without authorization on a local social media platform.

This big elephant has been ignored since the internet started. Especially today, these plagiarising things are not hard to do since Gen-AI increasingly emerged. It’s time to address it and figure out solutions.

So how many ways your digital assets will be plagiarized or exploited on social media?

Different levels of PLAGIARISING digital assets

• Share without authorization
• re-edit content(cut some parts to make new story)
• fake new content not in bad ways
• sell the content to get interests
• maliciously exploited contents
• dig and spread privacy

Explanation & Examples for Each Category

Share without authorization

• Share on different platforms
• Share on the same platform
• translate to a different language and share with different countries people

Re-edit content(cut some parts to make a new story)

• mirror the video or image to avoid being found by authors
• make text-to-image
• cut some parts to make a new story

Fake/Copy new content not in bad ways

• record the text and record a new one
• copy the style/copy/copy/shooting details/storyboard

Sell the content to get interests

• subscribe to the content creator’s channel and re-spread them, especially for the courses

Maliciously exploited contents

• steel the digital pictures and put them on the dating app
• start a rumor, in sexual, political, excessive, etc ways
• use deep-fake and make fictitious to ruin other’s reputations

Dig and spread privacy

• get/dig sensitive info in the content and share it with others