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.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Economic Entities aren’t robots, they’re collections of people engaged in the act of production, marketing, and distribution. If this ad/product exists, its because people made it exist deliberately.

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      6 months ago

      No they are slaves to the entity.

      They can be replaced

      Everyone from top to bottom can be replaced

      And will be unless they obey the machine’s will

      It’s crazy talk to deny this fact because it feels wrong

      It’s just the truth and yeah, it’s wrong

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        6 months ago

        Everyone from top to bottom can be replaced

        Once you enter the actual business sector and find out how much information is siloed or sequestered in the hands of a few power users, I think you’re going to be disappointed to discover this has never been true.

        More than one business has failed because a key member of the team left, got an ill-conceived promotion, or died.