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Now, on to our first story AI has come to the gender culture war yielding some truly

dumb content and I came across this concept because of the one specific instance that really went viral.

And this Washington Post article, I think, did the best analysis of it and they have this description sort of pulled from a

website doing this AI gender culture war stuff.

Quote we're putting clothes on degenerate women for fun.

Come join.

Read the tagline for Dignif AI website I landed on,

a slogan that tested your definition

of both degenerate and fun.

And that's about right.

So basically trolls on the internet are using AI to alter photos of women to alternately put clothes on them on them or take them off for different reasons.

I think taking them off is more obvious.

Putting it on is just the newest, tech way of slut shaming which is also as old as time and

so that's just part of the fun of widespread AI availability.

Well, this one is, it's just the new tech version of, like,

a phenomenon like in the right wing manosphere space I think there's a move

towards Islam Andrew Tate is Muslim a guy named sneakico who is like low budge Andrew Tate is Muslim and I think the reason that they're

joining is not because it's a religion of peace but because of that idea

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