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Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)
submitted 7 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think it's clear you have never experienced being sexualized when you weren't okay with it. It's a pretty upsetting experience that can feel pretty violating. And as most guys rarely if ever experience being sexualized, never mind when they don't want to be, I'm not surprised people might be unable to emphasize

Having experienced being sexualized when I wasn't comfortable with it, this kind of thing makes me kinda sick to be honest. People are used to having a reasonable expectation that posting safe for work pictures online isn't inviting being sexualized. And that it would almost never be turned into pornographic material featuring their likeness, whether it was previously possible with Photoshop or not.

It's not surprising people would find the loss of that reasonable assumption discomforting given how uncomfortable it is to be sexualized when you don't want to be. How uncomfortable a thought it is that you can just be going about your life and minding your own business, and it will now be convenient and easy to produce realistic porn featuring your likeness, at will, with no need for uncommon skills not everyone has