September 25th, 2025 -- by Bacchus
Pornocalypse AI Comes For Black Pinup Models
Someone I trust tried to post this lovely vintage pinup photo to an appropriate subreddit yesterday:
The photo was removed by the moderators with the message “Please do not post AI generated images”:
In fact it is from this 1966 issue of Cloud 9 magazine.
Given that we already know that AI tools are rife with algorithmic bias and that (for example) deep fake detection tools tend to fail when darker skin tones are involved, I think we can fairly guess that the AI image detector software in use on Reddit balked here because it was trained to look for “normal” (algorithmically average beige) women, and these gorgeous dark brown skin tones didn’t fall within the trained parameters.
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Oh great, Another reason to hate the AI silliness plaguing us. But, will this create a job opening for people needing to use the Mk 1 eyeball to verify this kind of thing…?
Justin, probably not. The vast majority of these situations are ones where some vulture capitalist has deployed AI filters so that an internet venture can “scale” at low cost. Humans don’t “scale” and therefore aren’t desired in these loops. Indeed, the trend is all the other way: capitalists of every stripe are firing humans as fast as they can and replacing them with AI filters. A bit of algorithmic bias is just one of the many eggs they are content to break to make that sweet rising-share-prices omelet.