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Husband using AI to generate women

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AnnoyedByAI · 14/12/2023 14:27

Hi there (my first AIBU), I wonder about your comments about my thought.

Basically my husband has this new hobby of generating images of attractive women he can use for the narration of his youtube channel (that has barely few tens of view each video, so a total fiasco). The images are not obscene (not even really sexualised), but they invariably gorgeous women. DH says that's to try to get more views and they are just "normal" images.
Ok it's not "cheating", but isn't that inappropriate?
Especially when he does this in plain sight, generating lots of images and, to piss me off, even asking me which image looks better.

To add more context, his whole enthusiasm about all this AI stuff irritates me, especially when he keeps joking that we'll both be out of job because of AI (wtf is funny about it?), and now he's even encouraging our DS (7) to ask questions to the robot (which gives completely rubbish answers) and our DD (4) seems getting curious as well.

Should I ask to ban this AI thing in our house?

OP posts:
WorriedMum231 · 14/12/2023 14:30

What the fuck?

this would really give me the ick.

Rackajack · 14/12/2023 14:31

He's a man child.

HuckleberryBlackcurrant · 14/12/2023 15:35

This is weird. I don't like that he's introduced it to your children.

Vegetus · 14/12/2023 16:44

Would you be happier if he was generating images of ugly women?

FreshWinterMorning · 14/12/2023 16:46

Well what is the subject matter on the youtube channel? Why does he need AI generated women for it? They're not real women you know. How can you be jealous of computer generated women?

mynameiscalypso · 14/12/2023 16:47

I'm far from a cool wife but I couldn't get that worked up about it. I have tried to generate images of people doing stuff for work presentations, for example, and they are inevitably very attractive people doing things. But my DH and I both work in the field of AI so it's normal and interesting to us.

HikingforScenery · 14/12/2023 16:49

why haven’t you said what his channel is about?

missmollygreen · 14/12/2023 16:50

You know even the biggest YouTube channels started with only tens of views per video.

I think you need to grow up

donquixotedelamancha · 14/12/2023 16:50

This is a very disappointing thread. I thought it would be a kind of weird science situation.

HikingforScenery · 14/12/2023 16:52

As for whether you should ban AI i. your house, goes he get a say in his own home? Ridiculous

Maddy70 · 14/12/2023 16:52

Ai is a tool. He's using it to market. Really wouldn't have an issue

VeryQuaintIrene · 14/12/2023 16:53

Weird and kind of unappealing.

Psyberbaby · 14/12/2023 16:53

Was this post written by AI to harvest opinions on AI?

What's his channel?

Jacfrost · 14/12/2023 16:53

HikingforScenery · 14/12/2023 16:49

why haven’t you said what his channel is about?

Cycling

PaulaPocket · 14/12/2023 16:55

donquixotedelamancha · 14/12/2023 16:50

This is a very disappointing thread. I thought it would be a kind of weird science situation.

I watched that with my teenage son and his mates and they all got totally embarrassed when Kelly Le Brock said about tossing themselves off. I'd seen it before, they hadn't.

HikingforScenery · 14/12/2023 16:57

Jacfrost · 14/12/2023 16:53

Cycling

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Sorry i think there’s an NC fail ? What are the women doing? cycling?

sonjadog · 14/12/2023 16:59

My SiL does this, but images of men rather than women. I don’t think she or anyone else thinks of it is cheating or inappropriate. But I certainly find it a bit strange… but honestly, among the strange things she does, it doesn’t particularly stand out.

sonjadog · 14/12/2023 17:00

Jacfrost · 14/12/2023 16:53

Cycling

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😂

sweetpickle23 · 14/12/2023 17:02

You can't "ban" AI it's in almost everything you consume, in some form or another.

Ethylred · 14/12/2023 17:02

LTB for cycling.

StrawberryWater · 14/12/2023 17:05

I do AI art occasionally (mostly animals but also 1950s pin ups, fully clothed, just a wee bit pouty). There are many online AI art communities with big prize competitions. I won one recently. l was well chuffed and it gave me some great advertisement for my art.

Snowdogsmitten · 14/12/2023 17:07

HikingforScenery · 14/12/2023 16:49

why haven’t you said what his channel is about?

Because we’d all go look at these fake women the OP is jealous of and inadvertently whack up his viewing figures, thus convincing the strange little man that his sexy fake women are working. Probably.

amylou8 · 14/12/2023 17:08

I'm not really sure of the problem. He's creating content and he's using AI as a tool to do this. It's a new technology and it's got a long way to go, but it's potential (as our future Overload) is huge.

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AnnoyedByAI · 14/12/2023 17:16

He's a man child.
Sometimes he is, ofter in a funny way, sometimes he's a bit immature tbh.

Would you be happier if he was generating images of ugly women?
maybe 😆
DH says the website actually refuses to create ugly women as they are considered offensive...

why haven’t you said what his channel is about?
I don't want to promote it actually. Anyway it's about financial trading. Apparently having a "woman" in the video thing makes the channel more appealing. If instead of a woman there was a man, probably there would have been only 10 views per video instead of 20...

Ok, I am getting worked up for nothing.

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ManateeFair · 14/12/2023 17:22

So is he just creating a still image of a blandly pretty woman for the video thumbnail, to encourage more clicks?

I mean, it's bit tragic but it's hardly crime of the century.

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