a16z-Backed AI Site Civitai Is Mostly Porn, Despite Claiming Otherwise
date linked: 15 July 2025
source: link to article, from 404media.co
This line (from a study quoted in the article) stood out:
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.
Open sourcing generative AI solves some problems but creates others.
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