Safiya Umoja Noble

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Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow Writer, professor. Comedian. Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI. safiyaunoble.com

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“…AI cannot account for consent. For women and other marginalized communities, what matters is not the content of the image, but the lack of consent, the harm experienced, and the intention with which the abuse is perpetrated.”

AI content moderation has a consent problem - Rest of World restofworld.org
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  • Meta launched Muse Image, an AI generator that let anyone manipulate pictures of any public Instagram user, and pulled it within 72 hours after backlash.
  • Chayn founder Hera Hussain argues AI moderation cannot account for consent, only for explicit content, leaving non-nude image abuse largely unaddressed.
  • Research in Pakistan and its diaspora finds most image-based abuse of women involves everyday photos, not nudes: no headscarf, wedding dancing, a male classmate.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

“At some point, maybe we should listen to the words of Meta’s founder who, years ago, bragging about how people just hand over their information to him, revealed what he thinks about those who do so: ‘[d]umb f—s.’”

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