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Tom Stoneham

@publictorsten What is so shocking about this is *not* that the genAI did exactly what it is designed to do, namely create teh most likely looking image, but that the person who used it switched off their brain at the sight of the words 'AI'.

Before AI, if a social media person had had to do a major edit of a photo which left them deciding 'bra or no bra', they would have asked the sitter. Now they use genAI to be 'more productive', they stop doing their own job properly.

16 October at 10:43 | Wall-to-wall | Open on dair-community.social
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Konrad Rudolph

@tomstoneham @publictorsten I am noticing this a lot: GenAI being used as an excuse/accelerator for a massive erosion of professionalism, with the excuse of “increased productivity” (“getting things done”).

16 October at 11:12 | Open on mastodon.social
Matthias Krämer

@klmr @tomstoneham @publictorsten That seems to be what it's made for: Productivity without responsibility.

16 October at 12:53 | Open on mastodon.social
MylesRyden

@klmr @tomstoneham @publictorsten

This is in keeping with the TechBro mantra, "Move fast and break things."

Which is how we have quickly gotten to a world full of broken things.

16 October at 12:55 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
tyx

@klmr @tomstoneham @publictorsten
That's my favorite joke from the long-pre-AI typewriter era:
HR asking a candidate for a secretary position on an interview:
You write in your resume that you can type 1250 words per minute. That's a lot. How did you achieve this?
-That was rather easy, I just don't care what gibberish is the result.

16 October at 23:24 | Open on lor.sh
G. Allais

@tomstoneham @publictorsten I would personally not take for granted that, taking a professional shot of a woman as its input, "the most likely looking image" is one that sexualises her.

There are built-in biases and the blame does not solely fall at the feet of whoever is in charge of socials. The people who built the machine to do that and marketed it as a magic tool everyone should use have a huge responsibility.

17 October at 10:05 | Open on mamot.fr
Tom Stoneham

@gallais @publictorsten Good points.

1) I was assuming that the genAI was picking up on images you see everywhere of a style of female business attire we might call 'smart sexy', a distant echo of sex-positive feminism. It is a personal choice to present like that by both men and women (e.g. Obama with two shirt buttons undone).

2) I agree absolutely. The purveyors of this crap are trying to make people less good at their jobs to make the AI indispensible.

17 October at 10:48 | Open on dair-community.social
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