Every time there's some new advancement in the field of artificial intelligence, there's always inevitably some backlash from people concerned that they'll lose their job to a machine. And that's been happening a lot over these last few years, with artists and writers being especially concerned over things like Midjourney and ChatGPT. Now it seems e-girls are in AI's sights.
This here cutie is named Claudia; she's a 19-year-old that went viral on Reddit after posting in thirst-related subreddits like r/normalnudes and r/amihot. Every one of her posts, some racier than others, were inundated with comments from simps willing to send money to a complete stranger on the internet in exchange for nudes. And it's not hard to see why with a body like this.
Before long, Claudia's DMs were open for business, and she made around a cool US $100 in tips. But eventually, Claudia's posts started getting flagged as spam and her account was eventually banned as more and more people discovered her dark secret: Claudia does not exist.
"Claudia" was simply an experiment by a pair of bored computer science students, who used Stable Diffusion to see how far they could go with fooling lonely Redditors into thinking they were buying nudes from a real person. “You could compare it to the vtubers, they create their own characters and play as an entirely different person. We honestly didn’t think it would get this much traction,” they told Rolling Stone.
Not everyone was fooled from the beginning; poeple who've worked with AI image generators for long enough can notice little details in an image that betray its artificial nature even if there are a normal number of fingers. Still, it's pretty concerning they managed to take their charade this far, and who's to say others won't try the same thing in the future when AI is even more advanced than it is now? At least r/amihot is safe for now, now that it requires new users to upload a short video clip as verification. Won't be long until AI figures a way around that, though.
What do you guys make of this? Could you tell "Claudia" apart from a real person if you didn't know? Sound off below!
