No believe me I know, I have heard women talking about this coming for years. It was already a very common harassment technique before AI made it free, easy, and accessible.
You can tell how few women are involved at the key stages of building new tech because of how rarely obvious harassment vectors are accounted for during development.
The problem I have is with trying to get men to care about it because it affects their daughter or whatever.
>You can tell how few women are involved at the key stages of building new tech because of how rarely obvious harassment vectors are accounted for during development
Interesting point to think about- it certainly would have helped. But I also genuinely don't see how someone developing this kind of technology, who has had even a brief glimpse of online culture any point in the last 20 years, didn't immediately see what it would be used for. It almost feels like "progress" with malicious intent. Or an extreme case of apathy towards societal consequences.
>The problem I have is with trying to get men to care about it because it affects their daughter or whatever.
Lot of people are too self centered to care about any issue unless it directly impacts them. If it gets people thinking about how it affects their loved ones I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
> If it gets people thinking about how it affects their loved ones I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
It's just shitty both to men and women. Men don't care about an issue unless it affects their daughters? They don't have other women they care about? Mothers, friends, mentors? Or for that matter sons who are also vulnerable to abuse and manipulation? The men I know are better than this.
And it positions women as being just a motivation for the actions of men, whose right relationship is to be protected rather than being actors in their own right. If you find this tactic sound then feel free to use it but I think there are better ways.
I get where you are coming from. The original poster could have phrased it better.
But it's an issue that has both then and now predominantly affected mostly women. Sadly I reckon many men will not care about it, or even be aware of the issue, until it impacts a woman they know.
B. To restate, heaven forbid a man take action based on what people he loves would want. All motives must be purely self-satisfying, or purely driven by the affected.
You can tell how few women are involved at the key stages of building new tech because of how rarely obvious harassment vectors are accounted for during development.
The problem I have is with trying to get men to care about it because it affects their daughter or whatever.