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YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool, Veo, according to a watermark included in the bottom right corner of the videos.

The channel, named Woman Shot A.I, started on June 20, 2025. It posted 27 videos, had over 1,000 subscribers, and had more than 175,000 views, according to the channel’s publicly available data.

violence against women

All the videos posted by the channel follow the exact same formula. The nearly photo-realistic videos show a woman begging for her life while a man with a gun looms over her. Then he shoots her. Some videos have different themes, like compilations of video game characters like Lara Croft being shot, “Japanese Schoolgirls Shot in Breast,” “Sexy HouseWife Shot in Breast,” “Female Reporter Tragic End,” and Russian soldiers shooting women with Ukrainian flags on their chest.

“The AI I use is paid, per account I have to spend around 300 dollars per month, even though 1 account can only generate 8-second videos 3 times,” the channel’s owner wrote in a public post on YouTube. “So, imagine how many times I generate a video once I upload, I just want to say that every time I upload a compilation consisting of several 8-second clips, it’s not enough for just 1 account.”

Woman Shot A.I’s owner claimed they have 10 accounts. “I have to spend quite a lot of money just to have fun,” they said.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Seems like snuff kink to me. Shouldn't be on youtube because it's basically porn to these people but while it's shocking I don't think there is a problem with the AI being able to generate it. In particular because "woman gets shot" is a perfectly fine scene to have in a wider piece, plenty of movies have an 8 second scene of a woman getting shot so if it's ever going to be used for any legitimate art (lol) then preventing the AI from making it would just neuter the creative possibilities the AI has. We don't stop other artists from making shocking content, we shouldn't prevent AI from doing it.

What we should prevent is kink content on youtube though. Keep it in the niche holes where it's difficult to find and won't shock people by merely existing, alongside vore, scat and all the others that don't require any nudity but everyone understands they're still pornographic content that the vast majority of people find either shocking or visceral disgust at.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

look this may be a wild take but I do not in fact think people should be allowed to share snuff films anywhere on the internet, simulated or not. I mean I assume you understand this take isn't okay with simulated csam, right? Snuff films are not in fact more acceptable than CP.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The two aren't comparable. It is perfectly acceptable to show people being killed on mainstream TV shows and movies. Child abuse is something that is only ever implied, never depicted directly. One is clearly more taboo than the other.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So if someone puts up a bunch of clips from movies of people being killed should we take those down too?

How long does a clip have to be before it crosses the threshold from being snuff to being a movie scene? What other criteria must it meet?

I mean this seriously. Because this is a very real barrier you're going to run into when dealing with this. I assume you don't want to prevent killing people from being in any movie or tv show?... Maybe you do?... Do you? Real question again. I don't know and I want to clarify this is not an argument, I'm not really judging or anything. I'm sincerely engaging.

EDIT: Oh and we have to talk about videogame killing too after the above questions I guess.

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

there's no way to know if the AI used acting movie scenes or actual snuf, it could've scraped a police body cam video of a woman getting shot who can't consent to being in the AI hallucination slop

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

That's a genuinely horrifying thought. One that should be used to stop AI from mass scraping their content or force them into some degree of transparency about what content they train on.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just going off the thumbnails the article saved, it looks like schlocky B-movie effects. In particular it looks a whole lot like the famous head explosion from Scanners.

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

and a few years ago will smith was eating spaghetti from his eyes

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

That's nothing, you should've seen what he was doing in AI footage

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My point was it looks like it's drawing on a specific sort of dramatic movie effect that's nicely in focus in the center of a shot, rather than the comparatively subdued or indistinct effects that real footage would impart.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

I do not in fact think people should be allowed to share snuff films anywhere on the internet, simulated or not.

Where do you draw the line between things like grindhouse or other schlocky horror genres and "simulated snuff films"? They're both doing the same thing, using the same digital or practical effects, to achieve the same crossed-wire response of mixing fear and arousal. You want some kind of "you must be backed by a company at least so and so big to be considered legitimate and thus allowed to produce violent fictional content that also involves or goes alongside some sort of sexualization" standard, the way Amazon does for novels? Maybe an "I trust a judge will know it when he sees it" standard?

Fuzzy subjective lines differentiating "acceptable" storytelling and content that you suspect someone might be enjoying a little too much aren't good, especially since the context they're in can wildly change that. There are people carefully documenting every time someone gets eaten in a movie with summaries and timestamped links to a clip of it: that's literally someone getting off to otherwise normal action/horror movies where someone is dying on screen. How do you deal with that context? Retroactively ban the films because you learned someone got off to it? Ban specifically snipping violent scenes for fear that someone might get off to it?

Like the person the article's about is shit because he was giving google money (bad), posting fetish content on youtube (bad), and was also openly a racist and presumably every other flavor of reactionary bigot too since those all go hand in hand (extremely bad), not because he was ~~making~~ purchasing highly ritualized fantasy fetish videos involving scary or violent themes.

And since I mentioned the horror genre: yeah a lot of horror movie writers/directors/producers were/are also complete shitbags, but so were/are the writers/directors/producers of a lot of every other genre of movie too. The problem is more with men and particularly men with any sort of influence or status than it is the genre, making all attendant problems entirely a matter of "look at the actual person involved and what they say and do, rather than the sort of content they're working with, because the worst people are usually doing the blandest stuff for all that you can find monsters everywhere", with the obvious caveat that someone making content that seems to sexualize children is an immediate red flag and requires closer scrutiny to differentiate legitimate non-sexualizing content (eg fiction about growing up queer and dealing with confusion and repression, or a work criticizing the ways patriarchal society sexualizes and grooms girls towards fulfilling their designated role) from illegitimate sexualizing content (eg Made in Abyss, one of the worst things anyone has ever made).

[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We don't stop other artists from making shocking content

who is we

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think about this alot, On the Relationship Between The Arts and Politics (1989) - Xi Jinping

This is just the conclusion, you (everyone) should read the whole thing, its short and achievable

We are a socialist country guided by Marxism. The Party’s knowledge of literature and art should adhere to the Four Cardinal Principles and focus on grasping the overall political direction. The Party should comment on specific literary and artistic views and works, discuss their merits and demerits, and allow the general public and artistic workers to determine artistic taste through regular democratic discussion. We must believe in the people’s artistic ability and aesthetic sensibility. In dealing with conflicts and disputes within academia and in art, administrative orders should be avoided as much as possible. We should study in order to deepen our understanding, and improve our art through democratic and fair discussions.

It is necessary to promote what is correct, to correct what is incorrect, to suppress what is negative and conservative, and to promote the healthy development of literature and art. Through the formulation of relevant rules and regulations, legal provisions, and various economic cultural policies we can develop sound social, material, and cultural conditions and an appropriate public opinion environment.

www.redsails.org/xi-on-art/

-and of course, volcel police

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"So how's the kink struggle session going?"

"Xi Jinping quotes"

[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

i am also kind of confused how it relates to my question lol

[–] VOLCEL_POLICE@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

volcel-police

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm using "we" here to refer to most societies as a generalisation. I guess that leans more heavily towards well developed ones over highly under developed ones that have much more serious priorities other than artistic freedoms.

[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

in a lot of societies producing shocking content is not the norm, so to me you are generalising quite a bit on who "we" are and what "we" should do.

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Kinks are weird. I know a guy who's really into vore art, but in real life he's an outspoken vegan.

[–] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

plenty of movies have an 8 second scene of a woman getting shot so if it's ever going to be used for any legitimate art (lol) then preventing the AI from making it would just neuter the creative possibilities the AI has. We don't stop other artists from making shocking content, we shouldn't prevent AI from doing it.

What a lame ass comparison, you are not talking about an "auteur" expressing edgyness, if that were the case they could take a camera and film their own shitty C grade horror movie if they really care about gore.

What you are actually talking about is a literaly dipshit who I quote "The AI I use is paid, per account I have to spend around 300 dollars per month, even though 1 account can only generate 8-second videos 3 times. Woman Shot A.I’s owner claimed they have 10 accounts"

Someone who is using a paid service spending at least 3k a month to create violent oppressive slop. Something he very likely would never do on his own otherwise and something that is detrimental not just because your interpretation of "shocking" is entirely subjective but also because its fucking AI slop which comes bundled with the bad consequences for the environment and the economy.

To take all of this and frame as if the issue here is artistic freedom? Yes we should neuter the "creative possibilities of AI" because the cost is literaly the fucking planet and their defenders need to be taken out and shot in front of the burning datacenters they love so much.

Again to even begin to enter this discussion, have this genius take a pen and a paper or a fucking camera and let them actually create the slop they love so much. If they can't do it without AI they shouldn't be allowed to do it at all and that is already being very liberal.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Isn't this response more about the AI than the content? I totally understand and agree with finding AI shit and lazy, but you're literally saying you'll allow the content if it's made using better less-lazy tools so it doesn't actually sound like this is an argument for or against the content itself?