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Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands (www.businessinsider.com)
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In the last week or so, 10 out of the 25 most popular cameos using my face are various fetishes, including one where I'm a centaur-woman pregnant with octoplets. It's not just me, either. I've seen this kind of content made with cameos of other women: female creators, another woman tech reporter, and a female employee of a prominent venture-capital firm.

**I don't get why anyone is surprised **

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago

A lot of the comments here seem to be missing some key points from this article:

  • The writer made her own likeness available to everyone on purpose. She did this knowing what would happen, but it was part of the exercise of seeing how weird it would get. So the points that she was stupid for doing, or that she was outraged by this, this are missing the point. Was she stupid? Maybe, but she made a conscious sacrifice on her likeliness. Was she outraged? Clearly not.
  • It's short-sighted to say "yeah this will happen, so don't put your is image out there". There are lots of people (especially women and girls) who have gone out of the way to avoid having their image/likeness out there for these it similar reasons. But they have still ended up the victim of humiliation and trauma from photoshopped images or deep fakes made against them.
  • This second point was a big part of what the author was trying to point out. It's both a warning to others about being careful of protecting your identity, and an alarm sounding that there are some really weird and creepy fetishes out there that people can get their likelinesses pulled into, even when you actively try to avoid that.
  • It also highlights the lack of safeguards on this kind of issue. Consent, age, level of fame... none of that matters in this issue. And in most cases the companies behind these tools don't do shit to address these concerns.