PierreJan 4, 2025
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https://x.com/elizlaraki/status/1846252781851890026?
Elizabeth Laraki (@elizlaraki) on X

I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI). I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right. Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird. I open my original photo. No bra showing. I put

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Oct 16, 2024 at 7:48amtooot
Show threadpublictorstenOct 16, 2024

Nebenaspekt der Story: Eigentlich hatte das Originalfoto ja den gewünschten Bildausschnitt. Ich vermute, dass an einer Stelle das Bild beschnitten wurde und an einer anderen Stelle plötzlich ein anderes Bildformat gewünscht wurde.

Das ist unsinnig und damit wohl der künftig vorherrschende Einsatz von KI: Unnötige Aufgaben schaffen und hoffen, dass nicht allzu schief geht.

Show threadFlorian IdelbergerOct 16, 2024
@publictorsten das musst du nicht vermuten, das steht da genau so
Show threadNiko TrimmelOct 16, 2024
@fl0_id @publictorsten das prinzipielle Problem ist nicht so ungewöhnlich/unüblich: Person A bekommt das Foto übermittelt für die Webseite, schneidet es auf ein Format zu und legt das Original entweder gar nicht ab oder in einer unüberblickbaren Struktur. Person B, die Social Media macht, bekommt das Original gar nicht zu sehen. Das sind Orga-Probleme, die du so in den meisten größeren Organisationen finden wirst.
Show threadNfoonfOct 16, 2024
@publictorsten vor zwei Jahren so: „Leute wer hat das Pornhub Fullbackup auf die Platte mit den Model Trainingdaten gelegt?“
Show threadShinGiTaiOct 16, 2024
@publictorsten ein weiterer typischer wtf Moment
Show threadhappyborgOct 16, 2024
@publictorsten pretty poor that in examining the photo she didn't notice this and think, oops, not like that.
Show threadTom StonehamOct 16, 2024

@publictorsten What is so shocking about this is *not* that the genAI did exactly what it is designed to do, namely create teh most likely looking image, but that the person who used it switched off their brain at the sight of the words 'AI'.

Before AI, if a social media person had had to do a major edit of a photo which left them deciding 'bra or no bra', they would have asked the sitter. Now they use genAI to be 'more productive', they stop doing their own job properly.

Show threadKonrad RudolphOct 16, 2024
@tomstoneham @publictorsten I am noticing this a lot: GenAI being used as an excuse/accelerator for a massive erosion of professionalism, with the excuse of “increased productivity” (“getting things done”).
Show threadMatthias KrämerOct 16, 2024
@klmr @tomstoneham @publictorsten That seems to be what it's made for: Productivity without responsibility.
Show threadMylesRydenOct 16, 2024

@klmr @tomstoneham @publictorsten

This is in keeping with the TechBro mantra, "Move fast and break things."

Which is how we have quickly gotten to a world full of broken things.

Show threadtyxOct 16, 2024
@klmr @tomstoneham @publictorsten
That's my favorite joke from the long-pre-AI typewriter era:
HR asking a candidate for a secretary position on an interview:
You write in your resume that you can type 1250 words per minute. That's a lot. How did you achieve this?
-That was rather easy, I just don't care what gibberish is the result.
Show threadKilian EvangOct 16, 2024
@publictorsten Side note: "respectable guy with 5 kids at home", dafuq?
Show threadMatthias KrämerOct 16, 2024
@texttheater He's not a childless cat man. And now we know what that can communicate about men.
Show threadKevin RussellOct 16, 2024

@publictorsten

Take down all the AI

Show threadLesley Carhart Oct 16, 2024
@publictorsten @Colman oh my god.
Show threadΩ 🌍 Gus PoseyOct 16, 2024
@publictorsten Says it all.
Show threadsionaOct 16, 2024
@publictorsten kinda sad that AI is now trying to undress us all :P
Show threadSteven SandovalOct 16, 2024
@publictorsten It's wild what proprietary softwareland is getting up to these days.
Show threadFor I am CJ   Oct 16, 2024

@publictorsten

It is almost assuredly no coincidence that the kind of information that ML model was trained on also happens to reflect the viewpoints of the many toxic people who are (organizational) 'Leaders' in this area

https://mastodon.social/@publictorsten/113315998059621041

Show threadsmall, primitive, winglessOct 16, 2024
@publictorsten that's.... certainly an informative presentation on UX + AI!
Show threadLongspeakOct 16, 2024
@publictorsten AI. Fucking everything up for years.
Show threadMark Connolly moved to @[email protected]Oct 16, 2024
@publictorsten @EricLawton What the actual fuck?!? I’ll add that one of my proudest moments was when Elizabeth spoke at Fluxible, and did so with her recently-born baby in a carrier strapped to her front. As someone who has organized UX events, it’s profoundly disappointing to see that this photo shit happened to such a wonderful person.
Show threadAndrew BartlettOct 16, 2024

@publictorsten

Also happened in Australia to an MP:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-01/georgie-purcell-ai-image-nine-news-apology-digital-ethics/103408440

An AI-generated image of a Victorian MP raises wider questions on digital ethics

A graphics expert says Nine News's explanation for how a digitally altered photo of Victorian Animal Rights Party MP Georgie Purcell was put to air is plausible — and raises important questions over the way the technology is used across society.

ABC News
Show threadMiakoda Oct 16, 2024

@publictorsten
@Kishi

So programmers have taught AI male gaze?

Show threadJima Oct 17, 2024

@hellomiakoda @publictorsten @Kishi Jesus.

The expression in your profile pic really summarizes what should be the general response to this news. 😒

Show threadJo - pièce de résistanceOct 16, 2024
@publictorsten wow.
Show threadGFIdkOct 16, 2024
@publictorsten wow - scary.........
Show threadlord pthenq1Oct 17, 2024
@publictorsten
Karma.
Show threadkasperdOct 17, 2024
This makes me wonder where they got their training material.
Show threadTransitBikerOct 17, 2024
@publictorsten the unethical nature of this stupid technology on full display here.
Show threadComrade elronxenuOct 17, 2024
@publictorsten Fuck AI.
Show threadErin In Safe Mode (they/it)Oct 17, 2024
@publictorsten "I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face!" - Person who works with and for the leopards
Show threadMoosicalOct 18, 2024
@publictorsten ugh. Bad AI, but also bad human for not looking and thinking it doesn't look right!
Show threadCarlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Oct 18, 2024
@publictorsten if this is real… #genAI is amazing. It just gave you the story for your talk!