Twitter Now Showing Ads for Nonconsensual 'AI Undress' Apps
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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.
404media comes from the Vice staff.
I mean that’s a pretty terrible thing. Certainly worth reporting on!
Like I said before. I am not defending the morality but the way in which 404 writes article. It’s like reading a buzzfeed/celebrity outrage piece.
Edit: I think it’s because after reading the original article I mentioned, I have a bias on how 404 writes pieces. That original article made me scared to even click the link to the company. I read a TechCrunch piece on the company and it painted a much better picture of the company and the challenges with being a marketplace/source for image models.
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
Just eat Cubensis or another psylocin containing strain as Muscaria contains none of it.
It’s not surprising Facebook also has bottom of the barrel ads. Any decent advertiser (unless they’re advertising to old people) would probably choose Instagram for their Meta ad buys instead.
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.
The sort of appropriateness of X cough cough twitter has gone downhill.
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.
Why does anyone shock at this currently?