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.

  • ???@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1820·
    7 months ago

    Would it be any different if you learn how to sketch or photoshop and do it yourself?

    • Kedly@lemm.eeEnglish
      446·
      7 months ago

      You say that as if photoshopping someone naked isnt fucking creepy as well.

      • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        79·
        7 months ago

        Creepy, maybe, but tons of people have done it. As long as they don’t share it, no harm is done.

        • Kedly@lemm.eeEnglish
          102·
          7 months ago

          I dont think that many have dude. Like sure, if you’re talking total number and not percentage, but this planet has so many people you could also claim that tons of people are pedophiles too

          • ???@lemmy.worldEnglish
            18·
            7 months ago

            Lol you’d be surprised…isn’t this one of those things people would do in private but never admit in public (because of people likr you getting all touchy and creeped out by it)?

            • Kedly@lemm.eeEnglish
              61·
              7 months ago

              You say this like we SHOULDN’T be creeped out that you are digitally undressing someone without their permission

      • ???@lemmy.worldEnglish
        26·
        7 months ago

        Creepy to you, sure. But let me add this:

        Should it be illegal? No, and good luck enforcing that.

        • Kedly@lemm.eeEnglish
          41·
          7 months ago

          You’re at least right on the enforcement part, but I dont think the illegality of it should be as hard of a no as you think it is

        • ???@lemmy.worldEnglish
          75·
          7 months ago

          I think anyone claiming otherwisw would be lying most likely.

        • Kedly@lemm.eeEnglish
          24·
          7 months ago

          There is a massive difference between thoughts and action. I’m sure a significant portion of us have thought about murdering someone too, does that make actually going through with murder less bad?

          • Drewelite@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            31·
            7 months ago

            This is a false equivalency. The correct analogy would be: if I think about murdering someone and then draw a picture of it or make a movie about murdering them, is that wrong?

      • ???@lemmy.worldEnglish
        910·
        7 months ago

        I am not saying anyone should do it and don’t need some internet stranger to police me thankyouverymuch.