Some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies.

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or unwilling to enforce their policies about who can buy ads on their platforms.

While parent company Meta’s Ad Library, which archives ads on its platforms, who paid for them, and where and when they were posted, shows that the company has taken down several of these ads previously, many ads that explicitly invited users to create nudes and some ad buyers were up until I reached out to Meta for comment. Some of these ads were for the best known nonconsensual “undress” or “nudify” services on the internet.

  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    95·
    2 months ago

    WTF?

    There is a huge ass difference between your personal thoughts and using a subjects social media, a database of existing nudes and AI to have REAL MEDIA produced.

    Seriously, not even remotely similar and its frankly disturbing that this is even your thought process.

    • postmateDumbass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      65·
      2 months ago

      If thought crime is a thing, im out.

      That is crossing the Rubicon.

      There is no harm done to you or your body with an AI generated image or video.

      Blackmail and extortion are crimes of their own, as are rape and sexual assault.

      But thinking about something and using tools to visualize it are not crimes.

      Maybe society overreacts to nudity. Maybe society’s attitude to sex needs to change. Maybe opression and regulation of sex has been a major form of control over society and oppression of certain groups.

      People are too concerned with their own junk to see the actual issue.

      • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        74·
        2 months ago

        lmao

        It’s not thoughtcrime you giant crybaby.

        But thinking about something and using tools to visualize it are not crimes.

        This is SUCH a huge leap. You have a right to your thoughts, not databases, programming and services to generate media.

        • postmateDumbass@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          you giant crybaby

          Stay classy, fascist.

          You want to limit what data people can collect and share what programs they can write.

          Why stop there?

          Prohibit what paintings they cam make. What drawings can be drawn. What words can be written.

          Fascist.

          • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            LMAO!

            Picture me openly laughing right in your damn face. This is such a hilarious use of the word that I can’t even begin to take it serious and it’s a tragedy that YOU are taking it serious. I’m sorry you feel so entitled to other peoples bodies and likeness. That is honestly very sad for you.

            I’m saying it’s wrong to do this because of the harm it causes, not outlawing and executing those that make the code. But that distinction is lost on you because “fascism” is anything you don’t like. Absolutely hilarious.

            (P.S I am screenshot this and show it to as many people as I can)

            • postmateDumbass@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              I am screenshot

              Can U haz chzbrgr?

              If the people you show this to have any intelligence, or understanding of the Bill of Rights, they will laugh in your face.