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Twitter Now Showing Ads for Nonconsensual 'AI Undress' Apps
- bell-cot 3y agoSad to say, but this feels right in tune with Elan's machismo-infused media image.
- potk6 3y ago[flagged]
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- deadbabe 3y agoThis is non-consensual. It’s like digital sexual harassment.
- potk6 3y ago[flagged]
- deadbabe 3y agoIf someone pulls a photo of me in a bikini off my social media then uses an AI undress app to turn it into a nude then passes it around you don’t see how that is some kind of violation?
- kibwen 3y agoI've flagged the multiple top-level posts in this thread where you attempt to desperately deflect from the issue here. You may not consent to my flagging your posts, but I'm sure you're fine with that. Using HN is consensual and HN allows this; buyer beware.
- toro9 3y ago[dead]
- loceng 3y agoI'm curious, not to give a personal belief one way or another, but in this situation are you equating someone generating an image and looking at them privately - keeping them private - as a form of harassment? That to me sounds in line with the "words are violence" ideology, an attempt at the rewriting of the meaning of words?
- deadbabe 3y agoIt’s not going to stay private.
- loceng 3y agoSo there's no room for accountability and responsibility then as part of your take? Does the issue then start that people post photos of themselves online to begin with, because if we continue your logic, it will be seen then and shared and used however human nature will determine it to be used? And what if there are 2 or 3 different people's photos used to generate images, where it's hard to tell who is generated photos vs. who are any of the real samples - is that acceptable? Shouldn't we be looking at the consequences though? Isn't the issue how people start treating the person, if they think or believe the person did nude photos - like if an employer fires them for that, even if that's not the listed reason? Situations like in high school, or younger, if nudes are generated and go "viral" amongst young horny-idiot immature boys - is where peer and social pressure may most be obvious, but then isn't that an education problem-opportunity to properly moderate-parent that situation, learning/growing opportunities for everyone?
- calamari4065 3y agoDid you miss the part where it's non-consensual? We have a word for non-consensual sexuality, as well as laws and severe punishment
- toro9 3y ago[dead]
- LudwigNagasena 3y agoThat is just… not true. Juvenile incarceration rate would be rocket-high due to BTS fanfics alone.
- kbos87 3y agoI rarely ever go on Facebook but found myself scrolling on a friends’ timeline a few days ago. One of the ads I saw, mixed among her posts as I scrolled, was for cotton candy flavored nitrous oxide delivered to your door. This isn’t just an X/Twitter problem.
- dingnuts 3y agoyes, a family member sent me a screenshot of a Facebook ad a few days ago for "magic mushroom gummies" that contained delta-8 THC and amanita muscaria lol O.o I'm not sure amanita muscaria is actually psychoactive when taken orally (although delta-8 THC certainly is) but it was still wild to see that advertised so.. brazenly
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoBack in the day, I ordered some A. Muscaria mushrooms online and they weren't magical at all. I drooled a lot, took a strange mostly conscious nap, and my vision was a little blurry. Just eat Cubensis or another psylocin containing strain as Muscaria contains none of it.
- torstenvl 3y agoWhat's brazen about advertising legal products?
- arp242 3y agoIn many locations, even where it's legal, it's not actually legal to advertise, or can only advertise with restrictions.
- hotpotamus 3y agoGiven the person-millenia years that Meta has presumably put into their ad-targeting, maybe you should give the nitrous a try; maybe they know something you don't. Or maybe they're just whores for anyone who would give them a buck, same as they ever were.
- SenAnder 3y ago
- throwaway22032 3y agoSocial media is full of this sort of nonsense. I ad block the web in general but can't really do that on Instagram. I get adverts encouraging me to start my own OnlyFans equivalent, the tagline being that it'll pay better than a healthy relationship with a real person you match on a dating app. There are some really deranged people out there.
- potk6 3y ago[flagged]
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- xnx 3y agoThis is a natural and expected outcome of a free speech zone. When certain types of speech are disallowed elsewhere, the places that speech is allowed will be dominated by it. "PPC" is an acronym most commonly used for "pay per click", but also has a tongue-in-cheek meaning of "porn, pills, casinos".
- bastard_op 3y agoMusk probably built this on demand, gives him something to lol while at congressional hearings. Why does anyone shock at this currently?
- infecto 3y agoI see a trend with 404media on writing sensationalized pieces. The last one I remember was also focused on nonconsensual AI images for a startup that just got funding. Not a fan so far. I think this misses the mark on what should be the discussion. First, this focuses too heavily on twitter. We understand a group of the population love to rail on twitter but this is a problem for the whole online ad industry. Second, there is a broader discussion of the legalities and morality of these technologies. These types of image gen systems do not fit my moral compass but I am not sure if they should be illegal or not. It’s a discussion worth having. Third, the whole ad industry has this problem of moral alignment. Google still shows the scam get rich quick people. Facebook similar. It is up to companies to pick their morality on what type of ads they want. So far everyone is still trying to capture the whole market.
- dfgfek 3y ago>I see a trend with 404media on writing sensationalized pieces. 404media comes from the Vice staff.
- infecto 3y agoDefinitely, I just don’t remember Vice being so terrible. I saw 404s intro post here on HN and every subsequent article from them that I saw on HN was like looking at a buzzfeed top10 lists.
- micromacrofoot 3y agoMaybe it's sensationalized but it seems fair to call out a specific example of profiting off of gross advertising without having to call out ALL examples of gross advertising. They shouldn't get a pass because other advertisers are also bad.
- infecto 3y agoI don’t disagree with your view. No free passes. I disagree with the way 404 writes their pieces.
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- barbazoo 3y agoInteresting podcast episode about Musk's life I got recommended yesterday: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7dxqaAKNQhLzRzfOTJ60mI https://open.spotify.com/episode/7dxqaAKNQhLzRzfOTJ60mI
- bparsons 3y agoI regularly see ads on Instagram for home delivery of steroids, LSD, MDMA etc. All of these companies have cut back on any human review of ads or content posted to their platforms. They have decided that there is no risk of government handing down any meaningful punishment for this.
- tharne 3y agoI really wish we could be more honest with ourselves about the tradeoffs inherent in the level of technological sophistication we achieved and continue to push the boundaries of. There just isn't a way to have privacy and human dignity in a world where everyone and their brother is walking around with an internet-connected recording device in their pocket or on their wrist. I know, I know, I can hear it now: "We just need to regulate it properly; It's not tech that's good or bad, but how we use it; tech is just a tool!". While that's a nice intellectual platitude, it's just not workable. The level of regulation that will ultimately be required to manage things like recording people in public, AI, mass data collection, etc. is going to require a level of government intrusion at a scale never before seen. And then there's still the matter of the government actually being able to regulate the tech properly. I just don't think our current level of tech, particularly with the emergence of AI, is a matter of having our cake and eating it too. We can have our fancy toys , but the social cost is going to be very very high.
- micromacrofoot 3y agoI don't think "a human moderator should have to read the advertisement before it's published" is too high a bar.
- goshx 3y agoI see plenty of ads on X with community notes warning the users about potential scams. Elon is taking money from anyone who wants to advertise.
- llamaInSouth 3y agoI guess I will have to unblock ads on Twitter... /s
- Sparkyte 3y agoYikes, this isn't good. The sort of appropriateness of X cough cough twitter has gone downhill.
- tennisflyi 3y agoundress.app, not sure if should hide or bring to light… The larger problem as the DMs illustrate is blackmailing for bona fide nudes…