Aline BlankertzMar 8

My demand for 8/3: Scrap that anti-feminist propaganda machine called genAI! It generates misogynist slop even in the hands of those declaring to want the opposite.

The German ministry for research @bmftr_bund just published a paper depicting female researchers in history who have been distorted to conform to gender norms - even with explicit prompts for smiles and dancing. But even without such prompts genAI reproduces and reinforces female oppression.

Publicly funded.

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Show threadAline BlankertzMar 8

The whole set of images is here: https://www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/2025/begleitheft-versaeumte-bilder.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3

The professor who prompted the images declared that “surprisingly, there was little resistance” to them:
https://www.gender-blog.de/beitrag/versaeumte-bilder-frauen-wissenschaft

Check out @bildoperationen for more on how AI serves to distort history such that it strengthens an anti-feminist present.

It is just one of many sufficient reasons to resist AI. But still worth saying today:

If we want to fight for a feminist future, AI must not be part of it.

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Show threadJohn MackayMar 8
@alineblankertz I agree that we must resist the current trajectory of AI under corporate control. But to say AI cannot be part of a feminist future is to abandon the field. A feminist future shouldn't reject powerful tools; it should seize them. It should demand diverse training data, fund women and non-binary people in AI research, and build open-source models that reflect a pluralistic world. The question isn't if AI is part of our future, but whose AI and what future it will help build.
Show threadClaudius

@johnmackay @alineblankertz If the goal is to produce as much bullshit as possible, yes.

But that is not the goal.

Mar 8 at 10:40amWeb
Show threadRRBMar 8
@claudius @johnmackay @alineblankertz AI is solving the BS penury problem. Remember, a few years ago, everyone saying: "If only I had more low quality BS, my life would be better"