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.

  • jupiter_jazz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    71·
    6 months ago

    I don’t think you are accounting for ease of use. It took time and skill for an individual to photoshop someone else. This is just an app. It takes more effort to prove the truth, then it does to create a lie. Not to mention, how in the other article it explains that people are using this to bait children. :/

    • Drewelite@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      41·
      6 months ago

      It takes more effort to prove the truth, then it does to create a lie.

      And this universal truth, that’s existed since the dawn of time, will now have to be reckoned with. The ease of use is exactly its undoing as something that has power over us. When anyone can do it, it all just becomes background noise.

    • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      6 months ago

      You don’t think it’s easy for someone to simply imagine another naked? That’s no different than this - it’s all a fantasy. None of it’s real.

      • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        There is a huge ass difference between your imagination and REAL MEDIA using my face. This is a absolute bullshit justification.

        • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          16·
          6 months ago

          How? In my mind, for this scenario, I can picture your face literally perfectly. It is, for all intents and purposes, your real face. In this case what I imagine in my head is identical to what some ai model would churn out.

          • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            Is a picture no different than an immigration? Is CGI not a picture because it used a computer?

            Of course not because REAL MEDIA is being produced. Your thoughts never leave your head, these images are being used to harass and blackmail women. Your argument is completely asinine.

            • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              24·
              6 months ago

              Hold up, that’s a separate issue. Revenge porn is flat out illegal, so using nudes of people, real or not, as blackmail, isn’t up for debate here. Whether or not it’s obvious, and I’m sorry if it’s not, I’m 100% with you that that’s completely disgusting and shouldn’t be tolerated.

              Back to the first part though, is the problem literally just that it exists outside of the persons head? If they don’t share it with anyone, what’s really the difference from them imagining it? In both scenarios they’re effectively getting the same result, and nobody else is affected.