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.

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.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    681·
    8 months ago

    It’s not that it’s too expensive, it’s that they don’t care. They won’t do the right thing until and unless they are forced to, or it affects their bottom line.

    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      8 months ago

      Wild that since the rise of the internet it’s like they decided advertising laws don’t apply anymore.

      But Copyright though, it absolutely does, always and everywhere.

    • KeenFlame@feddit.nuEnglish
      71·
      8 months ago

      An economic entity cannot care, I don’t understand how people expect them to. They are not human

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        8 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.

        • KeenFlame@feddit.nuEnglish
          53·
          8 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

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            8 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.