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.

  • @Nobody@lemmy.world
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    961 year ago

    It’s all so incredibly gross. Using “AI” to undress someone you know is extremely fucked up. Please don’t do that.

    • @MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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      Same vein as “you should not mentally undress the girl you fancy”. It’s just a support for that. Not that i have used it.

      Don’t just upload someone else’s image without consent, though. That’s even illegal in most of europe.

      • MxM111
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        131 year ago

        Why you should not mentally undress the girl you fancy (or not, what difference does it make?)? Where is the harm of it?

        • stebo
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          111 year ago

          Where is the harm of it

          there is none, that’s their point

    • ???
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      -21 year ago

      Would it be any different if you learn how to sketch or photoshop and do it yourself?

      • @Kedly@lemm.ee
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        341 year ago

        You say that as if photoshopping someone naked isnt fucking creepy as well.

        • stebo
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          -11 year ago

          Creepy, maybe, but tons of people have done it. As long as they don’t share it, no harm is done.

          • @Kedly@lemm.ee
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            71 year ago

            I dont think that many have dude. Like sure, if you’re talking total number and not percentage, but this planet has so many people you could also claim that tons of people are pedophiles too

            • ???
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              -71 year ago

              Lol you’d be surprised…isn’t this one of those things people would do in private but never admit in public (because of people likr you getting all touchy and creeped out by it)?

              • @Kedly@lemm.ee
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                You say this like we SHOULDN’T be creeped out that you are digitally undressing someone without their permission

                • ???
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                  -51 year ago

                  You can feel whatever you want.

        • ???
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          -41 year ago

          Creepy to you, sure. But let me add this:

          Should it be illegal? No, and good luck enforcing that.

          • @Kedly@lemm.ee
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            31 year ago

            You’re at least right on the enforcement part, but I dont think the illegality of it should be as hard of a no as you think it is

        • ???
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          I am not saying anyone should do it and don’t need some internet stranger to police me thankyouverymuch.

    • MxM111
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      -321 year ago

      Can you articulate why, if it is for private consumption?

      • @KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee
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        461 year ago

        Consent.

        You might be fine with having erotic materials made of your likeness, and maybe even of your partners, parents, and children. But shouldn’t they have right not to be objectified as wank material?

        I partly agree with you though, it’s interesting that making an image is so much more troubling than having a fantasy of them. My thinking is that it is external, real, and thus more permanent even if it wouldn’t be saved, lost, hacked, sold, used for defamation and/or just shared.

        • @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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          -31 year ago

          it is external, real, and thus more permanent

          Though just like your thoughts, the AI is imagining the nude parts aswell because it doesn’t actually know what they look like. So it’s not actually a nude picture of the person. It’s that person’s face on a entirely fictional body.

          • @KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee
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            61 year ago

            But the issue is not with the AI tool, it’s with the human wielding it for their own purposes which we find questionable.

      • @Belastend@lemmy.world
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        271 year ago

        An exfriend of mine Photoshopped nudes of another friend. For private consumption. But then someone found that folder. And suddenly someones has to live with the thought that these nudes, created without their consent, were used as spank bank material. Its pretty gross and it ended the friendship between the two.

          • @Belastend@lemmy.world
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            141 year ago

            Thats already weird enough, but there is a meaningful difference between nude pictures and clothed pictures. If you wanna whack one to my fb pics of me looking at a horse, ok, weird. Dont fucking create actual nude pictures of me.

      • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        It’s creepy and can lead to obsession, which can lead to actual harm for the individual.

        I don’t think it should be illegal, but it is creepy and you shouldn’t do it. Also, sharing those AI images/videos could be illegal, depending on how they’re represented (e.g. it could constitute libel or fraud).