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 threadErebus
@johnmackay @alineblankertz And then, you will be fighting an endless fight you can't win, using forces you don't have to hopefully reach something you will never reach, because to reach gender equality and the goals of the feminist agenda, you have to fight against the system to change all the rotness that lies below, and in that new world, present commercial gen AI has no place because in the end, it is an instrument for the enemy, not a tool for us. It's part of the problem, not the solution.
Mar 8 at 2:21pmWeb