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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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[–] exanime@lemmy.today 101 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (29 children)

And yet, people are still scorned and offended as if they were.

I think you are missing the plot here... If a naked pic of yourself, your mother, your wife, your daughter is circulating around the campus, work or just online... Are you really going to be like "lol my nipples are lighter and they don't know" ??

You may not get that job, promotion, entry into program, etc. The harm done by naked pics in public would just as real weather the representation is accurate or not ... And that's not even starting to talk about the violation of privacy and overall creepiness of whatever people will do with that pic of your daughter out there

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago (9 children)

I believe their point is that an employer logically shouldn't care if some third party fabricates an image resembling you. We still have an issue with latent puritanism, and this needs to be addressed as we face the reality of more and more convincing fakes of images, audio, and video.

[–] exanime@lemmy.today 21 points 6 months ago (8 children)

I agree... however, we live in the world we live in, where employers do discriminate as much as they can before getting in trouble with the law

[–] Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Well I think the whole point of this post is that the world is changing towards this being the norm. If an employer says they're not hiring me because of a nude photo, I'm just going to post 500 nudes of them and ask how they feel about it now 😂

[–] exanime@lemmy.today 5 points 6 months ago

It's a race to the bottom then ;-)

[–] psud@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

This might even provide cover for those with real nude photos circulating

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