Distributing porn of people is quite emotional and a different story. But changing people’s clothes and adding babies seems like something that should bother no one.
But I think some people have their image linked to their identity and it’s a big deal for them.
When I first got a scanner and laser printer in the late 80s, my brother and I scanned a photo of my mom and edited her face onto a Griffin battlemech from the FASA miniature game Battletech (a 55-ton giant robot with guns and missles and stuff basically copied from Robotech).
I printed it out and gave it to her and was pretty proud of how cool it looked. But she burst into tears and was so upset the we would “do that to her.”
Totally different from my intent and expectation and how I would react. This is the first time I realized that people have very different associations of images of them and self identity.
"You're showing too much skin, harlot!"
If it’s done to insult people, and dismiss their bodily autonomy, then yeah, it’s counterculture. There’s nothing wholesome about it. Like “well bless your heart” and “I’ll pray for you”, they’re intended to be insults in sheep’s clothing.
I think it's a good initiative from 4chan.
Well, that bug is going to be fixed pretty soon, as AI learns about different body types and how to identify them from clothed images. The bar is pretty low, because the AI-generated image only needs to convince people who haven't actually seen you nude.
Sooner or later, the only way to tell whether a nude image is real or not will be to check if if it accurately reproduces hard-to-guess imperfections in locations that nobody other than your most intimate partner will ever see. Brb, gotta give the kids a cryptographically unique tattoo or something.
Yes, our society is so sick that making a pic more wholesome and removing the graphic semi-nudity is now banned, just like editing Hollywood movies to remove gratuitous profanity, nudity, and violence is illegal under US Copyright Law.
Makes it hard to appreciate any other aspect of it, when the ideology behind it is to degrade other people, unfortunately.