WORDS BY HOAI-AN TRUONG, GAIL WILLIAMS, JUDI CLARK AND ANNA COUEY, MEMBERS OF BAWIT
DESIGN BY @MAGNETICDATATAPESTORAGE
Runescape was the first MMORPG I'd ever played as a child and I learned very fast that you don't pick female avatars for online games if you want to have a good time I thought it was fun that I made a lady that kind of looked like an adult-me (but pointier) and I could watch her do things I couldn't do
But men on there would relentlessly follow me Most of them were """nice""" in trying to give me stuff and start conversation I didn't know how to tell them to fuck off so I could enjoy the game at my own pace, so I'd stay silent THAT made some of them mad and then the threats started Eventually I learned that most of the other female avatars were men, some of the rest were naive girls like me, and maybe there were some brave outliers but I never connected with them
Why should I have to change when men can't behave? But I did change, and even today I play with male avatars if I can even stomach the actual game
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Omg yes Harassment and dick picks?, request fir nudes I could go on and on
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My freshman year of college I had a health scare and I was estranged from my parents They found out from the school, and I was pretty freaked out about the whole situation I posted to reddit, where I'd previously received a lot of support in woman-focused subreddits like 2X someone cross posted my post looking for advice and support to something like /r/"pussified", where they called me an entitled c*nt that didn't deserve to resolve my situation and they hope my parents disown me and stuff like that It really scared me It happened like 8 years ago at this point
The males I thought were my friends would behave worse on discord They would post insensitive memes, argue with me when I was seeking discussion, refused to accept responsibility, etc When I’m person I didn’t notice the slights until the online behavior became to great to ignore
i used to play a lot of online games and made friends with males on them. nearly every single one of those friendships ended when i rejected their romantic advances or ignored them when they flirted with me. probably the worst thing i received were rape threats, which also extended to my online female friends who were minors at the time
Misogyny online targeted at me started very early for me personally. My female friends&I received dickpics through social media during elementary school. I was also harassed. I had a male threaten to call my Uni because I said that TIMs are biologically male. I had "progressive" teenagers harass me, insult my art and my appearance, go through my posts after I corrected someone who "misgendered" a woman as a they/them, I received over 300 hundred comments and messages in one month. I also had some incel insult me.
When I was a libfem, I shared my nudes with men because it seemed so "empowering" and "sex positive" As one of them downloaded them (on Snapchat) I'm afraid they are published or shared with other males
As for doxxing, I could've been the perpetrator after finding the address and other details of an online harasser luckily for him, I'm a law abiding citizen and did nothing with this information
junipercastor gynoids-over-androidsI've been online a good while including playing MMO games but I never use voice chat except with irl friends or friends of friends and believe most players assumed I was male
I never got any threats on my first radfem blog somehow even when I got put on terf lists but I got a kys message pretty quickly on this particular blog it was anonymous but I'm sure it was a TRA
the only time I've gotten a rape threat has actually been on my fandom blog when I was more explicitly anti porn and it was also anonymously
I also got pushback once on twitter for accurately calling a gang rape perpetuated by a group male hockey players a gang rape but I think they also assumed I was a guy and took it as a culture war argument with another guy because I saw the same things going on with male beat writers who were critical of the players police and other orgs involved so while their position was misogynistic they weren't treating me differently
the worst stuff I've seen has always been directed at other women either I find it in their replies/reblogs or it's in compilations
but I've chosen to somewhat hide my sex, you can find out I'm female on my social media accounts but it takes effort as I don't use photos or use my voice in games (and I don't mod)
there's still luck involved though as even with my radfem blogs I have never received the amount of misogyny other bloggers have received
I'm with the above posters as an online gamer
I mod a discord for an MMO with cat girls and the amount of times I have had to delete rape porn and pedophilic content has taken a toll on me I am constantly having to deal with reports of sexual harassment, and sexually targeted attacks against our younger female members My hands are bound by the other mods, and the only reason I stay is because I am the only woman on staff - and the only officer these reports come to (I'm sure these incidents would go unreported if a woman was not on staff)
When I am just doing my job I am threatened with rape and battery, belittled, and many have attempted to dox me Of the few pictures of myself I have shared I have received "tribute" for (photos of ejaculation on said pictures of myself)
I've run gaming discords for maledominated games and it can be hell Dick picks, "b*tch/wh*re", having all my messages reacted with emojis, having everyone challenge me to a match in said game, asks to date/send pics, etc
Weirdly enough (not), when I chose not to have pronouns in bio and a more "masculine" username, I didn't face these issues :0
Anonymous
(Ironic that I'm submitting this anonymously to avoid being doxxed for an issue about tech and misogyny...)
I used to play a lot of overwatch with a couple friends. The problem was that you need 6 people on a team in that game and there were only 3 of us so we would join the queue and get random people. I got harassed so often if I tried to use the voice channel at all. Men calling me a stupid bitch who should be in the kitchen not playing video games. Calling me a dumb whore. People who would type in the all game chat that both the healers are women so that's why they were losing, and having people on the other team agreeing and telling them they were sorry.
I would try and make my voice sound lower if I was in the voice chat for a while, but it eventually got to a point where I just wouldn't use the voice chat at all.
I think the worst part of it to me was how many of the voices yelling these things sounded so young These were clearly middle or high school aged boys who have been exposed to so much misogyny already that they think it's fun to harass women for trying to play a game And this kind of harassment is so prevalent it feels like it's a part of gaming culture And companies do nothing to stop it
There has been many where the irl harrassment went to online spaces as well but I think this is not asking for those
The ones that originated from online places are as follows
TW: Standart issue disgusting behaviour by men Honestly there is no need to read this post I merely want to contribute to the zine
Unsolicited dickpics, unsolicited all kinds pics honestly
Sending pornografy
Harrassment, constant messages from newly made accounts to combat my blocking of every single account
Calling and starting to moan, clearly masturbating
The perpetrators have all been male, the age group is wide From teen boys to men with kids close to my age so I would say 13 to 60. I guess above 60 doesn't use the online spaces.
And some bizarre ones that I don't want to mention in a public post for fear of giving men ideas. I could talk about them privately and the zine could decide what to do. The ones I wrote were pretty standard I believe.
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Oh the misogyny is constant You really cant comment anything anywhere without being harrassed or threatened. I always report but their comments and accounts are never taken down. My comments speaking about and against their harrassment get taken down almost immediately. My instagram account was terminated for calling a man incel, as he called me Karen and said he was gonna rape me. His comments stayed up.
the way i tweeted about my physical assault by the homeless moid was what kickstarted everything. at first it was mostly commie men who were harassing me and sending me death and rape threats then after some moids with a large following dug up my radfem tweets (didn’t really have to dig cuz it was in my bio n i wasn’t hiding my views ever) and then that kinda got TRAs in general to start joining in on the harassment and threats this one particular woman in the thread is the one who initially encouraged ppl to doxx me. she made a tweet about finding where i work and getting me fired so “my male coworkers would be safer” like lmao i’m 4’11 and a woman anyways her bone to pick with me was that i 1. was a radfem 2. defined womanhood as a material reality 3. defined lesbianism as exclusively female homosexuality, and 4 referred to her TIM partner as her boyfriend despite them claiming they were in a lesbian relationship lmfaoooo
my family didn’t really know at first until i was doxxed and then the woman in the aforementioned thread was leaving voicemails on their landline trying to blame me for the way my followers came for her after i asked for help with finding out who was trying to doxx me. she left multiple voicemails, called my phone a bunch, joined my parents zoom meeting for their church which had fuck all to do with me, and tried to contact their church social media accs. one of my childhood friends runs the accs though and monitors the zoom meeting settings so that wasn’t an issue longterm. but she kept calling my house after i didn’t backdown despite being doxxed. she claimed i was sending death threats.
i can confidently say i only ever sent her ONE email after finding the contact button in the linktree in her bio on her public acc.
idk if the harassment impacted my career yet tbh. i have a regular job atm but i’m moving towards staring my own business. given my following and the social media platforms i haven’t even utilized for marketing yet i have strong hope i’ll be just fine. none of this has really dissuaded me from espousing radical feminist views. it’s only made me more adamant about the need for female liberation
i’m currently dealing with a fresh onslaught of harassment rn after clapping back at some transwoman who was spewing misogynoir about me. and now i’m getting death and rape threats.
the best way to mitigate damages is to get ahead of it if ur entering radfems spaces. scrub as much of ur personal info from online sites like whitepages; change ur dm request settings, and only forsake anonymity if ur positive you can handle the backlash. definitely take breaks from social media if ur getting a ton of hate, and there’s nothing wrong with filing a police report if ppl start getting really graphic with the threats
brush up on ur knowledge of local laws concerning internet harassment, and always have a support system to fall back on if things get really bad. i have a discord server that’s female exclusive and it’s such a safe haven at times
what are your tips on avoiding harassment as a radfem?HELLO, ADA HERE, YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD CYBERSECURITY ANALYST. I'M A BLUE TEAMER AND OSINT RESEARCHER. TODAY I'M GUIDING YOU ON HOW TO BE SAFE ON THE INTERNET, HOW TO AVOID CENSORSHIP AND THEN WE WILL DISCUSS DEEPFAKES AND AIGENERATED PORN. THIS IS NOT BY CHANCE A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE.
Before we deep dive into the big part I want to start with the most basic security you can think of, because these things seems obvious but they are not.1.1 Use 2FA/MFA on everything.2FA and MFA mean "Two factors authentication" and "multifactor authentication": this is a security features where you get asked two (or three in case of MFA) thing: a password and a token.
The token is generally a 6 ciphers PIN that's sent either to your phone number or to an app such as Google Authenticator These tokens expire every 60 seconds and while there are ways to bypass it for the average user is enough to prevent an intrusion.
Before activating 2FA we should take a minute to discuss passwords.
Passwords can have from 8 to 32 characters (although some websites limits to 16) Generally a safe passwords should contain at least 12 characters, one capital letter, one number an one symbol Every website has its own rules on this, but a 12 characters password made according to these rules is 60% of the work done. This is because the most common intrusion attack is called "dictionary attack": you get a list of the most used passwords and throw it at a tool such as John. So not only those characters should have a capital letter, a number and a symbol, but your chances of safety wildly improve if it's a random string
That being said, I know it's impossible for most people to remember so many passwords
This is why we implement password managers. I use bitwarden and keepass, both free and opensource tools. By using a password manager, you are required to remember only one very strong password, the password manager will remember the rest of them for you Given that you SHOULDN'T store the "main password" on a post-it on your laptops, on the notes, or everything You should remember it
There can be entire teams dedicated to this subject(threat intelligence - the thing I want to specialize in), but for the average user the best is to put the email or the password in haveibeepwned.com This website is put up by a cybersecurity researcher and it contains the major leaks Unfortunately, it doesn't cover everything, but for the average user it's more than fine
One of the major risk for users is called "social engineering" But what is social engineering? It's the exploitation of human psychology to be able to intrude accounts, documents or even places.Social engineering is particularly effective because it preys on human weaknesess and characteristics. This subject alone could be the center of few books on its own, but be careful of:
- Messages that imply a sense of urgency (click now, you have until to do this );
-Overly emotional messages such as (if you send me 600$ I won't kick the kitten);
-Messages that comes from unknown people, even if the domain seems legit;
-Avoid to partecipate in games and such where you have to post personal information that's generally used as a security question (es what's your mothers maid name? In what city you were born? What's the name of your first pet?)Social engineering attacks can be sophisticated (such as spear-phishing) I personally have received few very convincing phishing mails where they even were able to mention by name my coworkers. The old "well spam mails are full of errors and legit mails are not" doesn't work in 2023. In the doubt, don't.
Let me get this started saying that in the sources there will be a more comphrensive guide made by another cybersecurity expert so there is no need for me to actually go in deep. Also, by a law point of view "censorship" refers to persecution from your government, not being banned because of mass-reporting and/or site moderation Privacy laws vary by country also and I'm european, so I had to learn how the GDPR works ("General Data Protection Regulation"). It's a massive law that was put in place is the 2010s and ratified by all states and put everything in the hands of the user This is why if you are from europe and visit online sites you have one of these so called "cookie banner" Since cookies stores information (that can be also used to carry cyberattacks), GDPR obliges the "person that is in charge of the data" to make aware of what the site owner is going to do with the datas from user's cookies It's a mess, I know
But GDPR is very stringent and the fines are hellish, so people comply with it This is why I prefer to use EU services than US or UK ones, I feel safer. I can safely say though, that the best way to protect your privacy is... to not give others your data. We are obliged to balance between the need of privacy, safety and security and accessibility, confort and usability It's not an easy topic to deal with. Not at all, and I desperately want to write more on this topic. I know, mind-blowing. But every time someone asks you for an email address, name, company etc ask yourself if whatever you might get in return is worth it With these things clear let me adress few misconception that everyone thinks.
Can I ID someone from an IP Address?No Without going on the technical, IP addresses while they might suggest the location it's an hit or miss The country is accurate, but I cannot ID you by simply learning your IP. I can at best locate a specific, yet large, geographic area, your ISP, if you are using a VPN services(but not necessarily which), a proxy or if it's a TOR exit node It's not GPS coordinates
Keep in mind that the average doxxer is not an APT or a proficient hacker - they are people with too much free time That being said, IPs are definitely a way to track users(sometimes across different part of the internet), and government often put in place IPs block based on
where they are from or where they want to connect to Also yes, your ISP probably knows who you are. I disagree with the (sponsored) panic around being traced with IPs, to me making people feel unsafe just because it's not an ethical practice
Now a though one. VPNs works like that: you are driving like a Tesla You enter a gallery, you park your Tesla and get a Ford, and exit on the other sideVPN stands for "virtual portable network" When you use a VPN, you connect to a server with your own IP address and "get out" of the server with another IP Address, that carries another country, history etc
Two things to note:
- A VPN won't protect you from malware;
- VPN providers might record the stuff you do online And yes, people have had convictions because of this
VPNs are one of the tool used in countries with censorship to avoid government detection. VPNs are helpful when:
-You need to have a secure connection to particular assets (typical use of business VPNs, many of you are probably using this one but don't know)
-You don't want your activity to be tracked for any reasonI'd recommend you to choose a reputable vendor. I really like Proton VPN, because they are in Switzerland and are not subjected to the USA law, which I don't really like.
23 General social hygene
This is a though one and the kind of thing I wouldn't really want to write. But laws are a mess and there is not a easy way to persecute cybercrime in 2023 Technology evolves way faster than governments do and until they catch up with the 21st Century it will probably be a decade IMHO. But malicious use of new technologies doesn't take that long. This is a cybersecurity guide, and cybersecurity put the effort on the user and the blame to the malicious actor
Typical case is: I want to post on this social but I don't want it to be traced to me.
- Avoid posting selfies (duh);
-Avoid posting tattoos, scars and other things that definitely only you have Furniture, pets with particular things also count.
-Do not give away your location. I live in Redneck Land and I do a very particular job, so it woudn't
take a lot to ID me if the city where I leave gets leaked Generals are fine, like "Spain, Europe, The larger area of Berlin "
-Too many personal details On Social media, despite it being kept alive by fakery we are encouraged at every turn to lay down sensitive information, like sexuality, religion, trauma. A big part of the left also relies on the sharing of personal details to validate criticism and opinions You don't have to give away more information that you currently want to give People are not entitled to your private life regardless of discourse,e especially if those things are going to be used against you in some way.
Now, this part will be highly unsatisfactory on my side - because the only advice I can provide you with this is to restrict your social media and not posting online pictures of youThe reason is that the phenomena of "deepfakes", which are AI altered images with the purpose of look authentic, has many of the problem of cybersecurity as whole:
-Legislation problems, as it's difficult to determine whose fault it is and to persecute online crimes While a global legislation on the subject is much needed, it's not a thing I will be seeing happening soon enough.
- Male bias - most members of the IT world are men - and men don't see the danger the use of such technology does to women and refuse to ackowledge it;
-Social structures that allow this type of criminal behaviour to flourish. At this point I don't know of any tool that could protect people from becoming deepfakes Most people have the idea that since it's a a "public figure problem" it's not really necessary to protect the average citizen - but men found a way to victimize women There are several tools online that allow you to detect deepfakes but I only found a sketchy app avaiable to protect people from such issue
That being said! I'm going to personally work on this I don't know if it will work, but I'm actively trying to pull all the strings I have to produce such tools - but not being a dev myself it's not going to be easy.
There are many many topics I haven't touched - but a zine is made to be a punch, not a whole fight. That being said, my job is to be paranoid so I know I always look like a tin-foil hat owner when I mention the length one can go to protect themselves, but it's a necessity
Always remember to put your safety first when dealing with social media and similar things.
Some resources you might want to explore on the subject:
https://www3weforumorg/docs/WEF Pathw ays to Digital Justice 2021.pdf
https://hackblossomorg/cybersecurity/ http://wwwagiacza/sites/default/files/image tool/images/429/feminist africa journals/arch ive/18/standpoints digital security as feminis t
https://papersssrncom/sol3/paperscfm? abstract id=3779323
https://wwwoiioxacuk/wpcontent/uploads/2021/01/ReconfigureReportpdf
Online, all women experience censorship, harassment and sexualisation - all sex based.
Everyone knows who women are online. And some of them use this knowledge to attack, objectify and/or censor us.
I was profoundly shocked when some misogynists who claim to not care about sex/gender would use incredibly offensive sex-based insults towards women they don't agree with - saying they want to breed women they don't like or wishing ovary cancer on @laetitiaky.
This sex based violrnce intends to intimidate women to shut them up. This is why i depicted a pixelised version of a women's genitalia - to illustrate the sex-based censorship.
Not only women's words, but women's bodies are also either censored or objectified online. Every woman who posted even a completely innocent picture of her online knowd this - our bodies can't be left alone to just EXIST - even the most innocent and modest pictures are "rewarded" by sexual harassment and treated as if we were sexy objects. If conventionally unattractive, the women's and girl's pictures receive harassment telling her how her role of a sexy object is not fulfilled and she should shave, lose weight, etc.
Female nipples are censored, even though male ones are the only ones with solely an erotica function - this is an easy example of sex-based censorship of our bodies.
The only place where nude female bodies are allowed to be shown completely are p0rn websites and communities - but they still can't exist unbothered. They have to be transformed by angles, makeup, surgery razors to fit into the pornified idea of what a woman is - therefore censoring women's bodies and sexualising them once again.
BY @AESYNPeople online don't know who women are, unless it's time to masturbate to them or send them rape threats or wishes of ovary cancer.
n April 2023, two computer science undergraduate students invented a new way to profit from women’s bodies and sexuality. It turns out, a woman doesn’t even need to truly exist in order to be objectified - the woman in question was just a collection of AI-generated pornographic pictures, posted on Reddit Males wanting to purchase more masturbatory material of this woman would be able to do so by suscribing to her OnlyFans account, ran by her creators. Mainstream media describing this incident preferred to coddle the “scammed” men by pushing the “poor men scammed by AI” narrative instead of analyzing it through the feminist lens Another example of men profiting from women’s bodies online would be porn bots on social media who use real women’s pictures to promote porn selling pages.
AI development is moving fast and just like with any technology, men wouldn’t miss this opportunity to use it as a tool for porn production. We can distinguish three types of porn produced by AI: deepfakes, undressing apps and GANs to generate porn. All three are very often used without consent of the depicted subject
To put it simply, undressing apps were trained on databases of naked women and are used to make naked versions of pictures where women are posing fully clothed Deepfakes are realistic images or video created by sticking together a face and a body of two different people. Althougth deepfakes can be used in different contexts, 96% of deepfakes are porn. Finally, GANs (generative adversarial networks) are used to create completely new images from a text prompt typed in by the user - for example, DALL-E is a GAN If trained on porn images, a GAN can be used to generate porn.
Using AI to create porn raises quite a few ethical concerns beyond reproducing someone’s art style thus stealing their intellectual property First of all, the issues lie in the datasets of thousands and millions of images used to train the AI modelthese datasets feature porn images taken, distributed and used without the consent of the subject The images generated by AI may feature someone’s likeness or resemblance, wgich is is especially concerning because these images may depict extreme and/or illegal porn incompatible with the victim’s dignity - such as zoophilia. The training dataset may also feature child sexual abuse materials so the AI will generate CSAM too, accidentally or on purpose In fact, a team member of Unstable Diffusion, a pro-AI porn group admits himself in their discord server that despite the limitations placed on their free to access AI, it still generates CSAM. Finally, porn promotes violence against women (source)
But who exactly are Unstable Diffusion? They are a group who claim to develop an AI model to generate porn by using an open-source AI model Stable Diffusion They claim that their AI will be available for free on unstabilityai They also have a community on discord where around 250 thousand participants share AIgenerated porn
Their own AI model is currently in training. UD claims to have collected over 15 million high quality porn pictures for its training, explains one of the team members on their Discord server According to techcrunch:
ONLY A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF STABLE DIFFUSION’S DATASET ABOUT 2.9% CONTAINS NSFW MATERIAL, GIVING THE MODEL LITTLE TO GO ON WHEN IT COMES TO EXPLICIT CONTENT. SO THE UNSTABLE DIFFUSION ADMINS RECRUITED VOLUNTEERS MOSTLY MEMBERS OF THE DISCORD SERVER TO CREATE PORN DATASETS FOR FINETUNING STABLE DIFFUSION, THE WAY YOU WOULD GIVE IT MORE PICTURES OF COUCHES AND CHAIRS IF YOU WANTED TO MAKE A FURNITURE GENERATION AI.”
UD also raised more than $56k in crowdfunding, but were suspended by Patreon and Kickstarter It is not clear where the money to develop the AI model comes from today.
UD have announced the partnerships with Artroom and **Wombo**, a mainstream AI app available for downloading on App store and google play With Wombo, you can easily create deepfakes *UD’s discord server is often visited by users x and y who are listed as UD’s partners*
UD’s discord server has around 250 thousand members . Similar to regular porn websites, it doesn’t vet minors - you can access the porn images simply by clicking on the “I’m not a minor” button. But hey, you can also choose you pronouns!
The discord server features multiple channels for different genres of AI-generated porn that includes nonhuman porn and gore porn with extremely shocking images of mangled and bloody women’s bodies. You can share furry, hardcore, bdsm, gore, monster and fetish porn freely on the channels dedicated to these genres
UD’s team include CEO Arman Chaudhry who's a CS undergraduate. There is also a Canadian transgenderidentified male who’s the director of the server and a moderator of their subreddit. He’s the only account on the mod team to feature she/her pronouns and his different accounts on social media featuring female names At first sight, he seems to be a typical Redditor, fan of transgender subreddits and of a certain vocaloid (anime character)
Yet it is difficult to find the exact legal status of Equilibrium AI, the legal entity supposedly used by Unstable Diffusion The footers of their websites (x,y,z) lack legal information required by law - except for the x’s website which claims to be registered in Minsk Our research didn’t find any company with this name in Belarus’ company registers The domains hosting the websites are registered by domains by proxy LLC from Arizona. This clearly indicates the attempt to hide their whereabouts in order to avoid being sued - a concern also expressed by the team members on reddit and thei discord server.
Despite the legitimate ethics concerns exposed earlier and also expressed by the Montreals institute of ethics, the creators attribute criticism to anti-ai, anti-lgbt, anti-sex/porn groups :
Curiosly, they also use the liberal feminist rhetoric to defend their work. To quote techcrunch, In its now-suspended Kickstarter, Unstable Diffusion said that it would work toward making an AI art model that can “better handle human anatomy, generate in diverse and controllable artistic styles, represent undertrained concepts like LGBTQ and races and genders more fairly
THE THREAT OF US BEING SUED COMPANIES, FAMOUS ACTORS LARGE SOCIAL-ACTIVIST GROU (ANTI-LGBT OR ANTI-SEX/PORN GROUPS) IS VERY REAL AND MO OF THE PEOPLE WORKING HERE RUNNING THE BOT ON THEIR HARDWARE ARE IN NO POSITIO TO BE PERSONALLY SUED
Women’s identities and bodies are up for grabs and profits Porn teaches men that any woman is for sale - and AI porn is a tool for solodifying this mindset.
AI serves as a tool to severe even more the link between women and their sexualitywomen are treated as commodities, their bodies as entertainment AI reinforces the idea that women's bodies do not belong to them but rather to those who sexualise and objectify them; whether they're those who profit directly from AI-generated materials (porn sellers, developers of AI porn models, etc) or the consumers of such materials.
AI poses a direct threat to feminism which fights for women's liberation and ownership of their bodies, regardless of the male gaze or the economic coercion that males exercice over women. It is even more concerning then that males use the liberal feminist rhetoric by presenting their violent misogyny as female and "queer" empowerment that would supposedly come with futa porn and dismemembered women's bodies in a way libfems and the porn lobby paved the way for males commosifying and selling ai porn by using the rhetoric of selling women's sexuality as empowering to the female and creators, but this point was never efficient to being with - and now porn creators are males, profiting from women and their bodies, whether economically or sexually) "Woman" is an undefinable concept to liberal feminists and fans of queer theory, but surprisingly it is easy to transform this concept into a product.
It is also quite frightening to see that males are the ones profiting of depictions and perversions of female sexuality Women and girls are reduced to sexual objects and have absolutely zero ownership of their image and how they would be portrayed to satisfy male paraphilias.
Although the mainstream public has caught on with the issue posed with the theft of artists' intellectuel properties by dall-e and similar apps, women's images and sexualities appear to be open-source. The existence of AI porn is a threat to all women who dare to appear online Women's bodies are treated as public property Are our face, our bodies and our sexualities open-source images? Do women and girls have to adapt a virtual niqab of sorts in order to avoid appearing in a deepfake video or undressed by an AI app?
It may be depressing to see males inventing brand new ways to oppress us every day but fortunately they’re dull enough to expose themselves the most effective ways on fighting them. According to what they express on their social media and now-deceased crowdfunding pages, these individuals are extremely vulnerable to lawsuits and can’t afford attorneys or having their hardware confiscated or lost. Additionally, reporting their social media pages and provoking delays and disputes with payment processors, banks, web hosts, crowdfunding platforms causes them much trouble.
We should ask and pressure celebrities, companies, large activist groups for lawsuits and lobbying. What would Disney do if they found out a pro-AI porn group makes gore and furry porn of their trademarked characters?
However putting pressure and disrupting this group will not eliminate them completely and other smaller groups and AI models like waifu diffusion will continue to exist. This is why it’s important to contact your political representatives and petition your government on legislation for this issue. We should also bring large international entities’ and general public’s attention to this issue - possibly by organizing IRL protests.
Porn industry is a giant that is hard to topple. But unlike Mingeek or similar companies, for now AI porn is produced by small and vulnerable groups. I’m confident we can crush the budding AI porn industry in its infancy - before it’s too late.
Today's 3D tech for creating characters is incredibly realistic and allows you to create humanoid 3d models with great details, all the "" imperfections"" and quirks that make us human YET studios who create virtual influencers (lil miquela, shudu) only do extremely feminine and perfect faces We're all aware that filters, retouching and surgeries create impossible beauty standards but I'm predicting we'll have more and more virtual influencers that are inhumanely perfect, also as a way to avoid laws that force you to disclose the retouching and filters in marketing It'd be ironic because I think that our actual, real faces will not be shown online much - either to avoid doxxing and facial recognition OR because you're too insecure Maybe in 10 years we'll only see virtual human faces online and no real ones I advise people, especially women, to get used to your real bare face (@notyourmanicpixiedreamcurl is great on it) ... and then to show it as little as possible. Doxxing from facial recognition is real and easy, creating AI p*rn with someone's face, too Unfortunately women can't just exist with our damn faces online: our faces and identity are turned into a ressource, a commodity, a weapon, and a way to make money for the beauty industries.
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