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a16z-Backed AI Site Civitai Is Mostly Porn, Despite Claiming Otherwise | Data shows that the vast majority of images on Civitai were pornographic, and that the site hosted more than 50,000 AI models designed to recreate the likeness of real people.
Data shows that the vast majority of images on Civitai were pornographic, and that the site hosted more than 50,000 AI models designed to recreate the likeness of real people.
The open-source nature of TTI technologies, proclaimed as a democratizing force in generative AI, has also enabled the propagation of models that perpetuate hypersexualized imagery and nonconsensual deepfakes,” Wagner and Cetnic write in their paper. Despite its protestation to the contrary, Civitai, which is one of the fastest growing platforms in that industry, and that the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz invested in, grew because of explicit content, much of which was nonconsensual. “Additionally, structural discrimination embedded in today’s open-source TTI tools and models have the potential to cause significant downstream harm as they might become widely adopted and even integrated into future consumer applications.”
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