Artificial intelligence has made human motherhood a pseudo-commodity
Who would have predicted that the most expressive images of the depth and warmth of motherhood could become a commodity in visual porn on the Internet? (Nutrition and Health)
A model of the intersection between generative digital technologies and disinformation
It is likely that there is an incentive to mobilize attention and vigilance, in that appeal made recently by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres , about the need not to forget the earthquake of “misinformation” in light of the general discussions about Generative Artificial Intelligence , or GPT. GPT, in its various and proliferating variants.
In his appeal, which requires in-depth discussions, Guterres did not fail to point out that the spread of generative technologies is paving the way for an alarming increase in the phenomenon of false information and its earthquake. From the platform of the body concerned with the world order, Guterres mentioned a wide range of catastrophic damages that came from the phenomenon of false information, including its spread in light of the Corona pandemic, which exacerbated the deaths, injuries, and economic, social and cultural losses it caused.
It is likely that the call, which may trigger in-depth discussions, motivates once again to restore aspects of the experience with the phenomenon of false information, which it is true to say that it has benefited from advanced digital technologies, but it carries various other dimensions.
Perhaps there is no space in a single article to address the issue of the critical approach to the digital phenomenon, especially how to benefit from the anthropological approach that focuses on the course of lived life on the one hand, and between the continuous and effervescent developments of the contemporary digital medium . This may have many entanglements, but the human being stands at the heart of it all. In other words, it is always worth emphasizing that critical, dialectical thinking about the technical phenomenon, as is the case with others, of course, is based primarily on concern for the human being, its societies, and its civilization in general, so that the preoccupation with the digital medium and its technologies does not become an entrance to its expansion, alienation, and the absence of the centralization of the human mind and its lights. In the course of interaction with technologies and sciences, contemporary eyes have become more alert to the extent of their penetration into the fabric of the daily life of contemporary humanity.
Pictures of motherhood and pleasure trading
There is something utterly provocative about the transformation of the most intense images of motherhood and warmth into visual pornography on the Internet. Forbes magazine addressed this phenomenon in a lengthy article entitled "How the Sexualization of Breastfeeding Mothers on Social Media took place."
Without drowning in rhetorical exaggeration, it is difficult not to feel a human wound when looking at the images of the mother breastfeeding the child, that moment that is deeply rooted in human feelings, and has become part of a trade based on the dominance of the culture of the insatiable pursuit of pleasure in all its forms, as it is the exclusive center of man and his life. Even value it. Not far from memory is the influential and repeated criticism issued by Pope Francis II, towards what he calls a hedonic culture that makes the moment of orgasm an intense substitute for the meaning of man and his entire life.
By extension, this instinctive trade falls within one of the forms of the fake information phenomenon, which is the use of deep digital falsification methods in manipulating images and tapes that the public places on the Internet, especially on social media platforms.
According to that article in "Forbes", many mothers were shocked when they saw that pictures they posted on the Internet showing them breastfeeding their children were taken out of context and used in the context of digital pornography, without obtaining their consent for that use, of course.
In a move that demonstrates the mentality of commercial fraud, one of the mothers who reported their experiences to Forbes was offered a quarter of a dollar for a picture of her while breastfeeding her child, and half a dollar for a short video about the same thing. The site that made that offer claimed that the pictures and tapes would be used in a broad awareness campaign aimed at persuading the health and medical importance of breastfeeding, including consolidating the idea that breastfeeding is a natural matter that should not be treated with sensitivity or rejection. According to "Forbes", that offer included that mothers make digital contact with men who see the scene of breastfeeding as a sexual subject, and then they must ask those men to view pictures and tapes of breastfeeding, by refusing and sending them the phrase "Our bodies are for our children, not for sale." And when that refusal is sent, the breastfeeding mother receives a sum of money, which is sent to her through well-known applications for money transfers such as "Cash" and "Venmo"!
What if a torrent of swimming flows?
By extension, the Forbes article offered a range of variations on this fraudulent offer. To complete, all of these offers only led to obtaining pictures and tapes of mothers while they were breastfeeding their children, and then manipulating them to include pornographic images and tapes, which quickly became the subject of circulation and commerce via the Internet. Sometimes the matter reached the point of using fake pornographic visuals to pressure and blackmail mothers, and even asked some of them to sell their bodies directly.
There are many aspects of that troubling article, but they revolve around much the same issue.
What if this phenomenon is repeated with deeper and more sensitive aspects of human life, such as religious traditions and customs? What if this matter was exacerbated by the use of generative intelligence in falsifying those traditions, customs and rituals , any amazing escape of instincts that would accompany that, what if it was employed within the hate speeches of all kinds that do not stop multiplying?
It is likely that the questions may not end, but it may be useful not to stop asking one question after another, perhaps an answer will flash in these dark horizons.
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