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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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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Aline Blankertz
Ben Carver