Husband using AI to generate women

[AnnoyedByAI]

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?

DH says the website actually refuses to create ugly women as they are considered offensive...

Hes not far off tbf. AI is programmed to be "nice" - chat gpt is very "ethical" and #bekind in its answers for example.

But with the right prompt I could easily generate a cartoon witch for a Halloween promo, wart on nose, straggly hair etc.

But if you just prompt "woman in a red dress" they will inevitably be nice looking.

Not cheating but very sad and a big ick (the youtube channel alone would do it for me I have to say)

AI art is also pretty unethical because it steals from artists without their consent by scraping their data and using it to train up their models but that's by the by

The image is still but the mouth of the woman actually moves as she reads the script (and voice itself is fake)

I presume she would be happier if her manchild of a "D"H wasn't objectifyjng women. Anything wrong with AI men, or elves for that matter?

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...

That's exactly the logic used to have barely clad models draped across cars, machinery or whatever in conventional advertising. Your instincts are right OP- it's disgusting. And I stand by my previous suggestion. Why not consider a cute green alien?

First generation ones did this, it is true.

Adobe and Shutterstock have solved the problem though, those are just the two I know of.

And YANBU, he's doing what car makers and millions of other advertisers used to do. Drape a beautiful woman in a tight top across your product. Old fashioned sexism. The fact it works doesn't mean we should continue to do it.

No I'm not the OP 😂

It's because cycling is an "outing" hobby on MN

LOL this is both hilarious but quite depressing too. get rid of this loser, like it’s actually embarrassing i’m not sure how i’d carry on seeing someone like that 😂

Have you thought about chatting through your issues with ChatGPT?

Rather than bitching about AI, much better to have an open and honest dialogue laying your feelings out, making yourself vulnerable and talking about how it makes you feel and less chance of the robots having you on a hitlist when they take over the world.

One step for man, one sizeable leap backwards for womankind!

One small step, not 'one step'🙄

The genie is out of its lamp now and won't be stuffed back in so we might as well try to find ways of working and living with it.

Would you be as annoyed if he was drawing the pictures himself?

That's really creepy behaviour.

Also letting your children ask AI questions is just utterly stupid. People seem to be under the wrongful impression that AI is smart. It's not. At all.

It uses the data that people have fed it and tries to make an answer out of that. If it does not know something it will just make shit up because AI does not understand the importance of truth and factual information. It does not understand context. It does not understand social norms and ideological discussions. It's dumb.

You are chuffed because you fed a prompt or pictures into an AI and it made a picture based on learned algorithms based on stolen art work from actual artists that did not gave their permission for their art to be fed into a machine?

FFS.

I think you’re getting stressed over nothing, it’s not inappropriate images and it sounds like he will probably give up on the channel soon anyway if it’s not taking off?
ive been won round to ai lately, I hated it when it came out but started using it for creating images while editing tooand it does make life a lot faster.

Don't lots of families have an Alexa? I wouldn't have one myself but there's a proliferation of smart tech and asking AI questions in the home already!

🤣🤣🤣 me too.

You are jealous of AI women? I’m confused.

Alexa is originally a command and control system, meaning they are preprogrammed with questions like "what time is it?". It has evolved a bit but that is the basis of it.

Ai is language based models meaning they read tons of written language as data and try to make their own sentences and answers with what they have learned.

For example so if an AI has read tons of religious texts it will answer you according to what it's read so I might tell you it's really bad for you to eat bacon. The reason won't be because of health but because pigs are unclean animals in religious texts but it will not tell you that. Just that bacon is bad.

Tell him from a competent and successful Youtuber and marketer that people want to feel a genuine human connection when they watch videos and his channel is getting so few views because people don't want to watch a photo's mouth move while a computer reads out some words. As soon as people hear that fake voice and realise nothing else is happening in the video, they go elsewhere. His watch time must be through the floor.

He'd get more traction being himself and reading in his natural voice.

Tell him to Google Uncanny Valley, it's very relevant to CGI/AI imagery. And to Google Youtube SEO.

Here, I’ve made him one for free

Sounds sad all round tbh.

mono wtf?😀

Surely your problem is that you have a DH who wants to be a youtuber when he grows up. Nothing to do with AI.

Does he use midjourney ? @AnnoyedByAI