Importantly, this took deepfake undressing from a tiny niche to a huge thing:

This means that it’s no longer a niche or really exceptional thing, but that harassment of women with this method is now pervasive.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    But that doesn’t leave many options for the victims. Maddie, who said she’s a 23-year-old pre-med student, woke up on New Year’s Day to an image that horrified her. On X, she had previously published a picture of herself with her boyfriend at a local bar, which two strangers altered using Grok.

    I’ve thought a lot of things would kill twitter…

    But if every time a woman posts a picture of herself, and neckbeards reply asking twitter AI to sexualize her, and the AI responds right there with it where everyone following the original account can see…

    I truly don’t understand how or why any women are still using it.

    • U7826391786239@lemmy.zipEnglish
      22·
      1 day ago

      I truly don’t understand how or why any women are still using it.

      FOMO, along with addiction to fake likes from fake friends for fake validation of their fake lives is a powerful mind control technique

      how many years have people been saying “DELETE TWITTER ALREADY”

      and now that they’re being turned into porn, they still won’t

    • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Nobody with a face should use it anymore…but that will reduce traffic like…5%…

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      How is this gigantic website even legal and still online? In the civilized world, I mean.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        24 hours ago

        It all starts with a little bill call the Telecommunications act of 1996…

        And yeah, loads of people said it would lead to this shit.

        But Silicon valley gave a shit ton of money to the Clinton’s for the Internet part, and telecoms for the part doing away with monopoly regulations.