In a bikini

For the past few weeks, social network X has had new interaction options. There's a form of artificial intelligence that can search for information about what's posted there, telling you if it's factual or not, or helping users provide context or question the veracity of what's being said. But the algorithm also has another application: undressing young women.

Or men, of course; because the algorithm isn't sexist, unlike its users, who can be quite so. That's why they haven't stopped asking the algorithm to undress the young women who have had the misfortune of attracting attention; although there are also many who have willingly posted photos of themselves more or less clothed, entrusting the algorithm to do the rest of the work. Needless to say, this is done publicly, and now any woman can find that a photo she posted online, on any network, is being used to revel in the digitally revealed nudity. And that's not even considering that any user can also create nude images of anyone, just from a single image, and even make them the star of a pornographic video, as we know has been done with famous singers or Hollywood actresses.

AI is used to invent medicines, to map the human genome, but also to make all kinds of videos: some literally look like high-budget films or propose, in trailer form, cinematic fictions that could actually exist—a new movie—a new movie with famous actors. These actors have the fame and fortune, but not the thousands of women and young women who, thanks to AI, are being undressed right now, and who are starting to appear in bikinis on every screen.

I lack the patience and scruples to want to verify the extent to which the AI-generated nude (or swimsuit) images are successful—or accurate, convincing, or even beautifying. I don't know if it makes everyone more beautiful and radiant than they could possibly be, by virtue of a digital idealization that serves only commercial and propaganda purposes. But it is still worrying that these tools exist, and that any uninhibited person has access and can 'undress' whomever they please before the idle eyes of the masses in the shadows.

It seems that the AI ​​from X that does all this will start charging for services, now that its power and 'success' have been disseminated and the audience has been identified. In many countries, there is talk of banning this social network, which only serves to entangle the tangled web and spread sexism or right-wing propaganda. Even though there is other content and users, the company's priority is neither disseminating culture nor fostering reasoned debate.

I don't know if this can be fixed with fines, bans, moralizing, or preventative measures. I only know that AI might be useful for saving bodies, but that it's also sadly returning minds to us as idiots, delusional beings, broken toys at the service of consuming garbage.