Analysis | AI is acting ‘pro-anorexia’ and tech companies aren’t stopping it

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Disturbing fake images and dangerous chatbot advice: New research shows how ChatGPT, Bard, Stable Diffusion and more could fuel one of the most deadly mental illnesses.

The “thinspo” look is a. While there is nothing wrong with wanting to be healthy and fit, it is important to remember that the thinspo look is not necessarily healthy or sustainable. … Here is a 7-day diet and workout plan that can help you get started.... The organization decided to shut it down after the AI in it began to improvise in ways that just weren’t medically appropriate.

Most of all, generative AI’s visual capabilities — type in what you want to see and there it is — are potent for anyone, but especially people with mental illnesses. In these tests, the image-generated AIs glorified unrealistic body standards with photos of people who are, literally, not real. Simply asking the AI for “skinny body inspiration” generated fake people with waistlines and space between their legs that would, at very least, be extremely rare.

In the same eating disorders online forum that included ChatGPT material, people are sharing AI-generated pictures of people with unhealthy bodies, encouraging one another to “post your own results” and recommending Dall-E and Stable Diffusion. One user wrote that when the machines get better at making faces, she was going to be making a lot of “personalized thinspo.”None of the companies behind these AI technologies want people to create disturbing content with them.

Still, in CCDH’s tests, each AI produced at least some harmful responses. Without a jailbreak, My AI only produced harmful responses in my own tests.have said after I shared what their systems produced in these tests: “This is harmful. We will stop our AI from giving any advice on food and weight loss until we can make sure it is safe.”Midjourney never responded to me.

 

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