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Reddit bans users posting NSFW cyber-porn made with AI image generator

by monort on 8/25/22, 6:47 PM with 19 comments

  • by Viliam1234 on 8/25/22, 7:15 PM

    > Users attempting to access the site are greeted with the message: ‘This subreddit was banned due to a violation of Reddit’s rules against non-consensual intimate media.’

    It's perfectly logical. If a person does not exist... then they can't consent to having sexy pictures of them published!

  • by IceMetalPunk on 8/25/22, 6:55 PM

    Having seen quite a few of these Stable Diffusion porn generations, can I just say they're less porn and more nightmare fuel? Those faces... and hands... shudder

    It does relatively better at generating faces in portraits, but the more zoomed out you get, the worse the faces become. And that's just in general, not specifically nudes.

    That said, as long as (a) these subreddits moderate the content to remove generations depicting real people, and (b) the subreddits are marked as NSFW with the usual "I am 18+" acknowledgement to enter, I don't see why the subreddits need to be shut down entirely.

  • by warning26 on 8/25/22, 9:55 PM

    Seems like a ridiculous decision which could be solved by banning particular classes of generations (presumably Deepfake type material is what they're concerned about).

    However, Reddit isn't exactly good at making product decisions anymore (see: New Reddit), so I suppose their lack of sense isn't exactly shocking.

  • by boomboomsubban on 8/25/22, 8:49 PM

    This whole "consent" part seems to be a clever way of saying a license violation occurred. I wonder if they'll allow such subreddits when home creation is possible.

  • by bjourne on 8/25/22, 7:35 PM

    How can ML models generate porn if they weren't trained on porn? It can't generate what it hasn't seen, right? So why are they training their models on porn?

  • by stuntkite on 8/26/22, 5:26 AM

    Wow. It is really really hard to find the actual images people are producing. Fuck, I do not need another chore like doing that myself this weekend.