![]() I created a series where I framed my models as sculptures and works of art in the hope that the viewer will suspend any judgments about whether they find the models sexually attractive or not, or whether their bodies are socially “acceptable”. Seeing nudes in a museum is one of the only exceptions to this. ‘In the US, what little nudity permitted is usually shown in a sexual context. ‘Most of the bodies we see online on a daily basis aren’t even real, but rather enhanced or modified by technology to conform to a current, unsustainable trend,’ says LA-based photographer Julia SH, who is exhibiting powerful, textured portraits of bodies rarely depicted in 21st-century media, presented in museum-like frames. Update 8:55 a.m.: While was functionally generating different women as of writing, as of publication, the site doesn't generate more than one person per session for purchase.But under this flawless skin is a rotten deception, one deepened by a social-media saturated society. If anything, it falls into the same criticism that Melody, the 3D-generated hentai cam girl, does: If you want nudes, why not pay for a quality custom photo or clip from a real, human model. More algorithmic humans populating the internet can't solve issues of diversity or non-consensual porn. These nudes may not exist, but I'm still not sure why this startup needs to exist either. At worst, we're continuing down the seemingly-limitless path of men experimenting on women's bodies as startup fodder. This would mean individually searching and examining the source of every photo-and still not being sure if the images are from someone who is who they say they are, and is giving consent for the photo to be online, let alone to be included in a dataset to train a computer to churn out uncanny-valley algorithmic women.Īt best, TNDNE says it guarantees that every woman in the set is uniquely not a woman who exists. "If we notice that the results are from paywalled/monetized websites, revenge porn websites, online forums, or behind paywalls, we err on the side of caution and exclude that data since it may not have been gathered ethically." ![]() "The verification process for public domain centers around running public domain data through reverse image searches," the co-founder said. In short, this is a really, really tough undertaking-that TNDNE seems to think it can tackle with some reverse-image searching. Some scrape Reddit or Pornhub to get the images, but NSFW images on both of these sites frequently include non-consensual imagery, even if it's posted from an account made to seem like that person is doing it themselves. Even big tech companies struggle with this: like IBM, which got into trouble for scraping people's personal Flickr images marked for creative commons use, and Microsoft, which took down the world's largest image dataset, MS Celeb, after reports revealed it consisted of photos of people without their consent.įor nude images in particular, machine learning engineers struggle to find datasets for training. People steal sex worker's content all of the time, posting it to tube sites for free or dumping it into database links. Many of the images and datasets found online of nude and pornographic imagery, even those marked as public domain, are frequently stolen from actual sex workers. TNDNE's co-founder wouldn't tell me what specific datasets the algorithm is trained on, but did say that the current database is entirely women, mostly 20-40 years old, and white. To create the nudes, the website uses Generative Adversarial Networks, an algorithm trained on lots and lots of images-in this case, nudes-in order to produce new, novel versions of what it sees as "nude women." It's worth questioning why a still image of a shirtless woman from the torso-up is considered "pornographic." TNDNE says it plans to expand to include more poses and video options, eventually, and that the pictures currently for sale "mostly serve as a novelty." "Long term however, the goal is to have complete 3D rendered AI generated models capable of creating custom photo and video content." "I think this is probably the first chance that anyone in the world has ever had to buy AI generated pornographic content, so in a sense each customer gets to be a part of porn and AI history," the co-founder said. ![]() When you land on one you like, you add her to your cart, and are issued a "seed" number, which TNDNE says is your proof that you own that specific model. To buy an image of one of these algorithmically-generated women, you can smash a button that says "Generate New Girl" and cycle through a series of bodies that all look strikingly the same: white, bland smile, average-sized breasts and slim builds. ![]()
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