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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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Alien Honey👽🖤
@juliakponsford
I hear you, one thing to note is it can be very difficult to get a normal looking woman with some AI models, they will almost always come out sexy even if you aren't trying lol
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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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Victor Doval
@vicdoval
This prompt was blocked by bing-dalle3: "ugly person"
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flintpope
@flintpope
I agree. Most AI art that gets shared on the various platforms is by male sexual fantasists, or would-be architects, would-be SF writers or would-be comic-book artists. I am well aware the male gaze is a problem in art and has been since the Ancient Greeks. And moving on... I use AI myself. I get Chat GPT to write P5.js code to create generative abstracts that I then paste into the Processing site. After a lot of patient tweaking (some of it by hand in the code) I get something that works and then produce as many iterations as I can use before it goes stale on me. Then I overlay these images and distort the colours and so on then flood the timelines with the pictures. I of course attach one below! I think AI can be a tool as much as a Nikon or Photoshop but it is too good at producing the sort of glossy crap that used to only be found on the top shelf of newsagents in the 80s. Plus the obvious surreal nonsense! Sorry if I am borderline ranting.
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Paul Prudence
@paul-prudence
Thanks for bringing this up Vanessa. This needs to be said, and I am glad you wrote this. Spot on! 200 $degen
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