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.

  • MxM111
    -32•1 year ago

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

    • @KidnappedByKitties@lemm.eeEnglish
      46•1 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.eeEnglish
        -3•1 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.eeEnglish
          6•1 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.worldEnglish
      27•1 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.worldEnglish
          14•1 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.worksEnglish
      12•1 year ago

      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).