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Vanessa Williams
@fridgebuzz.eth
Scrolling through this channel it’s disappointing to see the overwhelming majority of images are of women—scantily clad, or idealized. Given a magical machine that can make any picture at all, are beautiful, slim, young (usually white or Asian) women all that we can imagine? As an artist, have you ever asked yourself: why am I placing a conventionally pretty, young woman in this image? Why not a man? Or an old woman? Or two teenaged boys? Or a dog? If you’re sexually oriented towards women, are you making art or expressing your sexual fantasies? If you’re a woman, is she meant to be you? If so, do you look anything like her? Or do you wish you did? Is that why you put her there? I’m not going to lecture about “the male gaze.” Either you know about it already or you can look it up. But I hope people will think and look at little more critically at what people who call themselves AI artists—including themselves—are making.
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Blue Cockatoo
@bluecockatoo
My thoughts/experience with this for my personal practice: - With the tools I use, I have to be intentional about preventing female figures showing up in most of my work (like my abstract pieces). By default it will stick a woman in the results unless I do things such as not use a prompt (image prompting only) or add parameters like "--no: people" - It is rare to get a man when I do work that has figures in it, though it occasionally happens, and I never specify a gender or use pronouns to influence it. - Sometimes my work has "beautiful" women in it, because I am going for a beautiful piece. I don't think "real" art has to not be beautiful and I make what I enjoy looking at. - As a woman, if there's a figure in my work, I feel more comfortable rendering someone like me than someone of a different gender. The reality is that AI is super biased by all the art it's been fed on and that includes a LOT of classical art that features idealized women. It is often harder to create work without them than with.
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Vanessa Williams
@fridgebuzz.eth
Yes, that’s a fair point. I have experienced it myself. Constantly trying to get it to leave out people and then the ones that show up are usually women. And for sure art can be beautiful. As to feeling more comfortable, I can see how that might be from role playing video games, where I always play a female character if I can. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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