Having finished naming and shaming the professionals of the community platform that created the AI ’art’ that fueled this mini-campaign, I’ve decided not to, at least for now. Exposing this would indicate a potentially growing and increasingly widespread perception among social platform enthusiasts of AI ‘art’ that it is a personal vendetta.
Hundreds – if not thousands – of similar platforms offer people with limited artistic skills the opportunity to combine human imagination with machine intelligence to create images from text prompts. For starters, a Bing search for a list of the most popular AI community ‘art’ platforms in the US turned up 23 Hive Index And 12 more Olette. Some are connected redditto others Conflicts (Including one I joined very easily).
My feeling is that the community I’m a member of (albeit reluctantly and temporarily suspended) appeals mostly to people of limited artistic ability like myself. According to a flurry of articles published towards the end of 2024 in an array of online media, the platform has 25 million users. How many of them are active and regularly post their photos is a moot point. And how visually captivating these images may or may not be.
But it’s probably fair to say that some members of the community join for all the wrong reasons—manipulating the system and creating a portfolio of images that are never published but downloaded for use elsewhere to circumvent automoderator filters. The starter/input images are fundamental to the nefarious but increasingly popular ‘nudifying’ and ‘deepfake’ processes, so imagine what can be done with provocative AI ‘pin-up girls’ (a pet hate of mine, as you’ve probably gathered).
Some community platforms have public ‘galleries’. One of them can be found Here In all his evident witness. If you can stomach it, a search for ‘looking for girls’ will make it clear how much women have been objectified with the help of AI. And please keep in mind that I have provided the link as a resource for anyone as concerned as I am about this deeply troubling social issue. Of course, not everyone visiting the ‘gallery’ through this post will do so for altruistic reasons. I am painfully aware of this. But sadly there is nothing I can do about it.
Against this backdrop, I hope my mini-campaign will take place despite this (and against strong odds) by raising awareness of the dangers of AI text-to-image community ‘art’ platforms.
@ Encourage visitors to this site to advocate for ‘art’ specific legislation that specifically protects women and children from being exposed to the dark side of the industry.
Aiming to review AI text-to-image community ‘art’ platform standards and terms of service, aimed at banning objectification of women and severely punishing non-compliant industry, and
Indicate some serious bias among members of AI text-to-image community ‘art’ platforms about their complicity in objectifying women directly or by default.
For starters, a platform offering its members the option of a secure browsing account settings is probably used by many of its supporters to create adult/safe/appropriate/proper work images. And why would the option be available? So, if your community platform falls into this category, watch out! A similar enmeshment should not be unlikely.