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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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Vanessa Williams
@fridgebuzz.eth
Yes, @bluecockatoo reminded me of that. I have noticed this problem myself. Although with a bit of work it *is* possible to get an old woman, a man, a Black person, etc. So the tools disadvantage us, but as artists we’re still making the choice to let the default rule. That seems, at the very least, lazy. Thank you for engaging in the discussion!
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Alien Honey👽🖤
@juliakponsford
All that being said I do think it's often intentional, sex sells and sexy ladies get views 👁️
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Blue Cockatoo
@bluecockatoo
Over time, I've worried about "appropriation" with making art that I might sell that depicted people who I'm not a member of their ethnicity or culture. If I do make art like that I want to be extremely respectful, but I've seen some artists get a lot of backlash for projects when their own culture/race is made public. For example I remember a controversy last year with a white guy making heavily stylized art of his "inner demons" that depicted what seemed like black men. He said that they weren't black men but dark skinned demons, but... Everyone assumed he was a black artist at first so there was some outrage when it was revealed he was white. It's safer to just stick with your own cultural background so your intentions are not misinterpreted. That being said, white and asian women are so generally put up as standards of beauty that they are almost "generic" and can't be appropriated. So I think that's another reason a lot of them are often featured and it seems "safe" to do so.
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