To all of you who celebrate Easter, I wish you a Happy Easter! Otherwise, I wish you a wonderful Sunday!
When I decided to do an Easter post, I wasn’t entirely sure what I was going to do in terms of content. Then I came up with the idea of having AI generate an Easter bunny in a skirt. Of course, the Easter bunnies it came up with were extremely feminine with lots of bows and lace, and were extremely cutesy.
So I told it to generate a masculine Easter bunny wearing a skirt. Unfortunately, it immediately fetishized it, so I had to play around with the phrasing for a while to get something halfway decent.
In any case, you can see a select few results below. These are some of the more mild images it came up with.
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This exercise shows us that artificial intelligence still has a lot of prejudices about how men can wear skirts.
The way it’s fed and can generate content is a reflection of what’s on the internet. It’s up to us to publish as many images as possible of normal men wearing normal skirts to change that.
Happy Easter to everyone.
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I absolutely agree!
Well, I expected something like this to drop from AI tools, although I wonder if you have tried to use more specific terms like “long skirt”, maybe it would give it less “fetishized” pictures. For some reason a lot of guys really associate word “skirt” with only these short ones, but I can understand that since when thinking about trousers, the length of it is usually the same.
Happy Easter for you Alex and your whole family.
Yeah, I probably could have been more specific with my terminology to get better results, but for me, it was still striking that the AI defaulted to such fetishized imagery. It makes sense, but it’s still unfortunate in my opinion.
Thank you! We had a great Easter 🙂
It seems obvious but I think needs to be said: AI is not to blame for fetish type images of men (or rabbits) in skirts. The programme is just gathering information and putting something together based on the information searched. If the results are a bit unwelcome for MIS in 2024 then that is to be be expected. We MIS or men presenting as men in skirts are fairly new. AI is gathering information from years back not just scraping the last few years.
The fact that you are here is great in itself, forget AI. I’m fairly new to MIS myself, I started in 2022. I didn’t want to hide away, afraid of being caught so just went for it, a man in a skirt. I love skirts they make me so happy.
You’re absolutely right that AI is not to blame for it. AI can only produce content from the input it receives and, as you mentioned, that sort of result is to be expected since men in skirts are still fairly rarely seen on the internet. There are more and more images of us and how we really dress, but not enough yet to override the years of data the AI models were trained from.
I’m glad you just went for it! Skirts make me very happy as well 🙂