I (H32) have recently contacted my ex to ask her if she was ok that we deleted our nudes, because I'm afraid they could be leaked.
To explain the situation :
We stayed friends and are in very good terms.
When we exchanged sexual content, we explicitely convened that it was ok to keep them even after the relationship, as long as we didn't post it online or show it to everyone.
I trust her 100% on this and I believe she trusts me as well, so it's not a "revenge porn" type situation.
My problems with the situation are :
Leaving the nudes on apps like Whatsapp or Signal is taking a risk that eventually these data get collected to be sold.
If these data leak, they might get posted on porn websites without our consent, or possibly used by scammers to blackmail us.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that generative porn IAs scan the internet for porn, and use the found data to help them better generate new things. If that's the case, I'm not really a fan of leaving a sextape of us help create new porn. Not even talking about the deepfake potential, but I guess that if it really happened, we could just say that it's AI I suppose.
Even if nothing like this happens, if one of us loses the phone (she told me she saved the photos/videos on her phone) or if one of our phone dies, we throw it but we don't remove/destroy the memory component, then it can still be retrieved.
I want to add that I told her that as far as I'm concerned, it's still ok if she keeps it, but I would need that it was only accessible on a physical device like a usb flashdrive, because it's more secure than a telephone you can lose, or get hacked, and that is almost constantly connected to the internet, monitored, etc. A flashdrive that you keep safe and eventually destroy is fine with me. But at this point honestly the easiest thing would simply to just erase all the nudes.
After launching the discussion my ex agrees on the principle, but I'm wondering if I'm just creating a problem out of thin air. She asked where does this fear came from, or if I had examples of such a problem, and I must admit I can't really think of examples about this topic other than revenge porn, which is almost inevitably the only angle with which this question is thought about. I researched articles online or reddit posts and it always comes back to this topic, or the one of consent, 2 concepts that are kinda irrelevant here, since we consented during and even talked about it after to further consolidate that it was ok for everyone.
So the real question is : Am I being overdramatic about all this ? lol
Thoughts ?