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Why would you rather it not exist? In a vacuum, I agree with you that there's probably no harm in AI-generated nudes of fictional women per se; it's the rampan
by mossTechnician 9mo ago
Why would you rather it not exist?
In a vacuum, I agree with you that there's probably no harm in AI-generated nudes of fictional women per se; it's the rampant use to sexually harass real women and children[0], while "causing poor air quality and decreasing life expectancy" in Tennessee[1], that bothers me.
[0]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/x-blames-users-for-grok-generated-csam-no-fixes-announced/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/x-blames-users-f...
[1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/elon-musks-xai-accused-of-lying-to-black-communities-about-harmful-pollution/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/elon-musks-xai-a...
- ACCount37 9mo agoBecause it's just a vessel for the puritans and the usual "cares more about feeling righteous than about being right" political activists. I have no love for either. The whole thing with "AI polluting the neighborhoods" falls apart on a closer examination. Because, as it turns out, xAI put its cluster in an industrial area that already has: a defunct coal power plant, an operational steel plant, and an operational 1 GW grid-scale natural gas power plant that powers the steel plant - that one being across the road from xAI's cluster. It's quite hard for me to imagine a world where it's the AI cluster that moves the needle on local pollution.
- muwtyhg 9mo ago> Because it's just a vessel for the puritans and the usual "cares more about feeling righteous than about being right" political activists. I have no love for either. People are (or were, as of a couple of weeks ago) having nude images generated from pictures of them, and were posted publicly, by a company worth billions. You think the outage around that is just puritan hand-wringing? Not that real people are actively being harassed?