Sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift have been circulating on X (formerly Twitter) over the last day in the latest example of the proliferation of AI-generated fake pornography and the challenge of stopping it from spreading.

X’s policies regarding synthetic and manipulated media and nonconsensual nudity both explicitly ban this kind of content from being hosted on the platform.

  • FfaerieOxide
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    325 months ago

    Ah, it was the third option, ignorance.

    Oh, I’m not at all ignorant of how horrible generative " art " is, but I appreciate you checking on me.

    • FaceDeer
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      135 months ago

      If it’s horrible and it’s also “masquerading” as human art, what does that say about human art?

        • FaceDeer
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          105 months ago

          No, I’m just pointing out the common contradiction I see in threads like this, where people argue that AI is both a big threat to “traditional” artists and also that AI is terrible compared to “traditional” artists. It can’t really be both.

          • olorin99
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            165 months ago

            The use of “horrible” in their comment isn’t necessarily about the quality of the art. Judging from context it’s probably more about the ethical considerations. So not really a contradiction.

            • FaceDeer
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              85 months ago

              He put quotes around the word “art”, which gives me the opposite impression.

          • FfaerieOxide
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            105 months ago

            I just notice alot of cheerleaders for this " art " form come from a place of vindictiveness against people with artistic talent and their positions are rooted more in a desire to see people the view as gatekeepers receive comeuppance than an honest defense of an ostensive tool.

            It can’t really be both.

            It totally can. Take the example of fast food. Simultaneously a threat to traditional cooking and terrible.

            • FaceDeer
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              65 months ago

              And yet there’s still plenty of traditional restaurants.

              Fast food provides a new option. It hasn’t destroyed the old. And “terrible” is, once again, in the eye of the beholder - some people like it just fine.

              • FfaerieOxide
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                95 months ago

                Fast food provides a new option.

                Fast food damages the health of society and impoverishes communities.

                • FaceDeer
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                  75 months ago

                  Unhealthy things should be forbidden? Even if they were, this is drifting off of the subject of AI art.

                  • FfaerieOxide
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                    105 months ago

                    Things that are bad for society should be suppressed and things which are good for society should be promoted. That would seem to be the point of a society.

                    Further, I notice a pastern in your replies of bringing up metaphor then rejecting the very metaphor as off topic or irrelevant when it is engaged to it’s logical conclusion.

                    No accusing you of engaging in bad faith or anything, but it smells (sorry, metaphor again) less-than-fresh.

          • @[email protected]
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            5 months ago

            Oh buddy come on you can’t actually be misunderstanding how they used “horrible.” They’re not saying it’s bad quality they’re saying it’s bad morally

            • FaceDeer
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              15 months ago

              You realize how a word like that can have ambiguous meanings, yes?

              • @[email protected]
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                5 months ago

                “That’s "suppressing theft masquerading as art is awesome” you hear in that comment."

                Emphasis mine. The context clues make the intended meaning pretty obvious

      • Gamma
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        175 months ago

        Misunderstanding doesn’t make the comment into the type of gotcha you think it is