It's only used tissues under there, I swear! ๐ซ
It's only immoral, not inherently of lower quality. Aesthetics and ethics aren't about what actually is, but about what should be. Even if an AI and a person produce the same image, the AI isn't a living, breathing human. AI art isn't slop because of its content, but because of the economic context. That's a far better reason to hate it than its mistakes and shortcomings.
The best option is to hang out here! However, if you want to play in Corpoland^TM^, you need to follow their rules. If you want to make significant money or reach the biggest audience, there isn't an alternative.
You want the dirty truth?
I moan like a slut because it feels so much better that way (โเฒกฯเฒกโ)
A lot of insights in neuroscience and psychology come from tragic incidents rather than experiments. The function of various brain regions has mostly been deduced by studying people with traumatic brain injuries. What little we do know about atypical development in children comes from tragedy as well.
There was a case study of a neglected child who experienced nearly no human contact for most of her life, and she had severe developmental delays compared to everyone else. The doctors mismanaged her care to an absurd degree, but not intentionally. From what they did observe, she was mentally typical outside of her lack of human contact. Her progress mostly stalled because the system didn't let her form meaningful relationships with parental figures. It's a really sad story.
In terms of gender, significant insights have been gained by misguided attempts to treat people with atypical sexual development. Intersex children still regularly undergo "corrective" surgeries to make their genitals fit the male/female binary. Many intersex people come out as transgender, only to realize that their genitals were altered at birth in unnecessary ways.
The doctors have tried to compensate by studying prenatal hormones to more accurately assign genitals, but the whole thing is fundamentally flawed. So long as the genitals don't pose a risk to the child's health, the reasons for doing the surgeries are purely normative. They just want the genitals to fit a binary because having them exist outside the binary is "abnormal," which they see as inherently bad.
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The surprising truth is that doctors are biased to believe that gender can be forced. It all comes back to persistent philosophical assumptions about identity that date back centuries.
- Descartes viewed the self as something fundamental, the first thing we could be certain of. In actuality, our sense of self can be wrong, as demonstrated by trans people who thought they were cis, only to learn that they hate being their assigned gender and love being another.
- Locke viewed human beings as blank slates that are shaped by our environment. While we are strongly shaped by our environment, case studies of separated identical twins show that many psychological traits are strongly biological, while almost all traits are a mix of both. If an identical clone with the same DNA as you is trans, the chances of you being trans are only ~50%
- We can be any gender and gender differences are purely cultural. Western philosophy has a strong bias towards believing in free will; that everyone is created equal and that we each have the freedom of self determination. We are rational beings that aren't constrained by nature like simple animals that operate purely on instinct. These ideas are more reflective of what we want to believe and what is useful to believe.
The last case study I'll mention is the case of the guy who was forcibly feminized and gaslit into believing he was a girl. After a botched circumcision that completely destroyed his phallus, David Reimer's parents were told that they should just raise him as female. They touted "Brenda" as proof of gender being arbitrary, even as David began to insist that he was a boy. He was given estrogen and experienced crippling gender dysphoria as a result. When he was finally told the truth, he adopted a male identity.
Sadly, David committed suicide at the age of 38, going public with his story before then. Over the 3 decades that his false story was left uncontested, the view of his psychologist had dominated, doing irreparable damage to gender science. Afterall, if a cis boy could be made a girl, why couldn't intersex and trans people just live as the gender they were told they were?
The truth doesn't just undermine gender, but fundamental biases embedded in most people believe about the world. False ideas can be more useful that unfortunate truths, as believing in free will, believing in self determination, believing that things are just and fair helps the machinery ramble on. You're more likely to succeed if you think you can, so believing we have control of ourselves is appealing.
It's just to get past dumb algorithms that suppress anything remotely adult. The rich fuckers who control our financial system think they can enforce prudish "Christian values" on everybody. Sex workers can't get paid despite following the law, while advertisers only do business where all queer content gets treated like pornography.
It's absolutely vile and abhorrent how they work their influence into everything. They never waited for project 2025 to push their twisted morality, as Christian conservatives have always used capitalism to control culture.
This is why spaces like lemmy are so important; they allow us to exchange ideas without capitalist meddling. The assholes who support child marriage while calling us groomers can eat a bag of nuclear waste.
I'm a degenerate who chews gum around others (I always dispose of it properly of course :)
All of these faces make physical sense, while AI art often doesn't.
BG porn text from what I could see:
Your dick-
Oh baby give-
I'm gonna
Imma or in a
You got no pan- (?)
Ow!
Ow!
It's not just about noise from your speakers, but noise from your mouth ๐ฅต
The opposite of love isn't hate, so girlfriend is closer to girlfoe than to girlstranger โ๏ธ
Whoever reposted it where op found it did, and op didn't see the uncensored version first