PSA
I'm back! Sadly not for fun reasons. We already know my stance on AI, there's no need to go into it all over again. If you haven't seen those posts, just go back to June/July of 2024 on this blog. My views are basically the same as they were then, I despise it. The reason I'm making this PSA is not for AI as a whole. As much as I hate what you're posting, this is not aimed at those who properly label/tag what they post as AI. This is for the content that is being posted on here, on Twitter & on Reddit of athletes "gaining weight" and for all of those I've seen in the comments believing they're real. Guys... Seriously. We've got to use our critical thinking skills. If it seems too good to be true, IT PROBABLY IS. I'm not going to give the names of athletes here, I think they've been through enough as is, but it is not difficult to find who these guys are and to see that these photos are complete BS. Please, PLEASE do some digging before you start sharing this stuff. As for those of you who are generating/posting it, I hope you know you are despicable vile human beings. What you post is not hot, it is disgusting. Your hyper fixation on generating as much slop as you can of one athlete in particular is especially disturbing. These guys did not ask for this, and I fear what they may do if they found it. Do you want them cutting down in weight? Do you want them having body image issues? Do you want them making all their socials private or deleting their presence on social media all together? Knock this shit off, delete your accounts, go outside and fucking touch grass.
I've had more thoughts on this subject and figured I'd do a follow up reblog. If by chance there are any lawyers out there who see this, I would genuinely be curious to get your opinions. First, I've tried to be as careful as possible what photos I shared with the original post as to not have it flagged & hidden by Tumblr for being mature, but there have definitely been more explicit photos shared that are completely fake/ai generated of these guys in jock straps. Would any of these, seeing as they're using the faces of real guys, fall under any of the ai porn laws? With everything I've seen of these posts, there has been no indication by the person(s) posting these that they are ai generated. Instead from the way they respond to comments, they imply these are real. Obviously they aren't, we can find the real guys and they look nothing like these. Second question would be could these be considered defamation? Seeing that again, they are using the faces of real guys in their college uniforms while also posting these as if they are legit images and not ai generated images trained off of real guys. Obviously not being a lawyer myself, I couldn't say where the line is between who is and isn't a public figure, but I would think with the follower count these guys have that it'd lean more towards private as opposed to public. I know I'm making a big stink out of this, but it is genuinely upsetting to me how this has continued to spread and how many people I see falling for them over and over again. Obviously I don't believe I have any legal standing here, but I would hope posting this that those who are generating these take a second thought about sharing them. There are so many real, living, breathing guys on here, on Reddit, on Twitter, on Grommr, so on and so on who are actually interested in gaining weight that would love to have your support & encouragement, and I'm certain there are bound to be ex-athletes in the mix. We do NOT need to fabricate them with ai and flood social media, especially while doing all of this without their consent. Even worse when you're outright impersonating them. Yes I've seen the Reddit accounts, it's gross.