She had a boyish mullet cut, her hand in her briefs and an open leather biker vest, revealing part of her bare breasts.
On the cover of
Rolling Stone Magazine
on February 14, Kristen Stewart appears androgynous, provocative and hyper-sualized.
However, for two weeks, the same somewhat revisited image has been making the rounds on social networks.
We see the
Twilight
actress fully dressed, in a long blue dress, shawl around her neck and painted nails, straightened hair.
The photograph comes from software called DignifAI, using artificial intelligence.
His goal: “Restore dignity to the Internet,” we read on his X account page.
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Kristen Stewart is not the only one to be targeted by this new technology.
Thus, each photo of a woman posted on social networks, which the AI considers vulgar - too naked, tattooed, "unworthy" of herself - finds itself completely modified, covered from head to toe.
Initially launched on the 4chan forum - a controversial site known for its sexist and retrograde ideas - DignifAI is reportedly becoming a particularly popular tool for conservatives and other masculinists.
As Libération
reports
, this new phenomenon would allow users harboring retrograde ideas “to satisfy their reactionary fantasies of more puritanical and docile women”.
“We purify them”
Still according to the daily, a discussion - now inaccessible - was opened last January on the said forum for the launch of the software.
Its title: “Operation/TradAI”.
His hashtag: “#DignifAI”.
To convince its community, its creator explained: “With the power of AI, we will dress the instahots (
naked girls on Instagram, Editor's note
), we will purify them of their tattoos, we will free them from their piercings, we will lengthen their skirts.
» Mission successful since the account already has some 63,000 subscribers on X.
Stars of the big screen, but also singers like Cardi B and other influencers and anonymous people parade, transformed into real “tradwives”, these housewives in very “1950s” outfits.
“Sexual attraction depends on mystery and tension.
The more sex and sexuality are openly displayed, demystified and normalized, the less exciting it is,” wrote one user under one post.
Among the followers of the phenomenon, a certain Jack Posobiec, a well-known figure on the far right in the United States.
On February 2, the latter re-shared a publication from the application, followed by this violent missive: “DignifAI is redefining the Internet, “slut” after “slut””.
Women (again) in the viewfinder
The use of this artificial intelligence poses problems for its substance but also for its form.
In addition to the values it conveys, it is indeed women who are in its sights, once again widening inequalities between the sexes.
Because if this new AI clothes them, it is still she who undresses them in another way.
In 2019, an application was created under the name DeepNude, this time replacing clothes with bare chests and exposed stomachs.
Faced with its dazzling success, the software based in Estonia was deactivated after just twenty-four hours.
This is not the case for DignifAI which seems to warn in its caption: “We are creating a movement”.
Or women's bodies, once again objectified and judged.