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Will Instagram Remove This AI Nazi Taylor Swift Image After I Post This Article?

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Update: At 1:40PM Eastern Time I saw that Instagram took down the post. It has still not replied to my email.

Interesting experiment. The author I think makes a really outstanding point when it comes to companies like Meta: concerns, complaint, actual grievances, go into a black hole. If you get locked out of your Instagram account, you're basically screwed. If it gets hacked, good luck, trying to get it back. I would like to see government doing more to force social media companies, to take responsibility for their users, and respond to their concerns.

Of course, if you don't like it you can go to another service, you don't have to use Instagram, you're not a customer if you are using a free service etc etc.

There are all sorts of retorts to this. Unfortunately this practice of ignoring users is not limited to just Instagram. There are a lot of companies that people use and depend on, but could not get them to respond to legitimate concerns to save their life.

I mean, the image is distasteful but isn’t it valid political commentary? If the poster thinks that Taylor Swift is a nazi and is similarly guilty of genocide or whatever, I think it’s going to be a pain to try to remove that content on a case by case basis.

Is it ok to make images depicting others than Taylor Swift as a nazi?

It seems like instagram just needs to stick to their TOS or it will be confusing and an effort storm.

It seems like this was a solved problem on the 90s/2000s with forums and boards that there was some defined line that people can’t cross (eg, nudity, curse words, spam, whatever) that would get stuff removed but otherwise people will post distasteful things to groups of people and the correct move is to ignore or downvote. Otherwise it just gets into some weird form of polling to see who’s happiest of things get taken down and that takes mod time, and seems to just stir up people with non-productive discussion and frustration and other negative emotions.

I love Taylor Swift as much as the next person (the Taylor’s version redos are just great!) but this seems like no reason to acknowledge.

(Of course instagram can do whatever it wants as it’s their platform legally, but if their goal is to have good discussion and improve humanity than they need consistent modding based on some principle other than subjective outrage on a case by case basis)

Save you a click : yes, they did.

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