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.world
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    7 months ago

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

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      7 months ago

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

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        7 months ago

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

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          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

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            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)?

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              7 months ago

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

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        7 months ago

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

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

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          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

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        7 months ago

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