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Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)

submitted 6 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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[+] misc@lemmy.sdf.org -7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Would you like if someone were to make and wank to these pictures of your kids, wife or parents ? The fact that you have to ask speaks much about you tho.

[–] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are plenty of things I might not like that aren't illegal.

I'm interested in thr thought experiment this has brought up, but I don't want us to get caught in a reactionary fervor because of AI.

AI will make this easier to do, but people have been clipping magazines and celebrities have had photoshops fakes created since both mediums existed. This isn't new, but it is being commoditized.

My take is that these pictures shouldn't be illegal to own or create, but they should be illegal to profit off of and distribute, meaning these tools specifically designed and marketed for it would be banned. If someone wants to tinker at home with their computer, yoipl never be able to ban that, and you'll never be able to ban sexual fantasy.

[–] misc@lemmy.sdf.org -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think it should be illigal even photoshops of celebs they too are human and have emotions.

[–] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I get that it’s creepy but that’s a dark path you want to walk down. Think about how that would have to be enforced.

[–] misc@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would say like how cp is enforced as some of these ai fakes might even involve kids .

[–] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

That’s a great example though, because truthfully digital cp is incredibly difficult to enforce, and some of the laws that have been proposed to make it easier have been incredibly controversial due to how violating they are to people’s privacy.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The fact that people don't realize how these things can be used for bad and weaponized is insane. I mean, it shows they clearly are not part of the vulnerable group of people and their privilege of never having dealt with it.

The future is amazing! Everyone with apps going to the parks and making some kids nude. Or bullying which totally doesn't happen in fucked up ways with all the power of the internet already.