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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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[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 105 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (14 children)

Yet another example of multi billion dollar companies that don't curate their content because it's too hard and expensive. Well too bad maybe you only profit 46 billion instead of 55 billion. Boo hoo.

[–] Aermis@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Your example is 9 billion difference. This would not cost 9 billion. It wouldn't even cost 1 billion.

[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah realistically you're talking about a team of 10 to 30 people whose entire job is to give the final thumbs up or thumbs down to an ad.

You're talking one to three million dollars a year, maybe throw an extra million on for the VP.

Chump change, they just don't want to pay it cuz nobody's forcing them to

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

It would take more than 10-30 to run a content review department for any of the major social media firms, but your point still stands that it wouldn’t be a billion annually. A few 10s of millions between wages/benefits/equipment/software all combined annually

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