AI slip puts men in skirt and heels on software site
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If there ever was a sign pointing to men's dress norms loosening up, it would have to be the unnerving collective intelligence of AI.
We've had a hard time getting AI to put a woman in pants, let alone a man in a skirt. But now it appears to be doing this, unprompted:
See for yourself: cyadviso.com/vdpo-services
(If you're not seeing what we saw, it means the images were taken down)
Two images down on the page, we see some good looking heels – and are those ankle bracelets?
The fourth image includes a skirted powersuit, and several people looking confidently uncertain:
We're not saying this was unintentional. It's entirely possible this software company's secret endgame is to subliminally coerce men into fashion freedom.
It's completely plausible they hired an illustrator who snuck some gender nonconforming fun into these dreary, conservative images – along with a few extra fingers and hands, while thoughtfully highlighting the fact that not everyone has two legs.
It's completely plausible they hired an illustrator who snuck some gender nonconforming fun into these dreary, conservative images – along with a few extra fingers and hands, while thoughtfully highlighting the fact that not everyone has two legs.
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Heh, wow – you caught so many more things. It’s almost like the illustrations were meant to be a ‘how many errors can you spot’ game. We haven’t even announced the prize yet 😅
Fun things to find in the pictures:
Man in a skirt. Man with women’s legs, pants, feet, and heels. Man with two white left hands and one black right hand. (Several people appear to have hands from different races, but the intent might have been shadows.) Man with lady legs wearing pants under a skirt. Woman with one heeled shoe and one (mens?) shoe and sock. Woman with two different kinds of shoes (no socks). Woman with at least part of a third leg. Man with three pants legs, but only two feet. Chairs floating above their bases. Happy woman sitting on top of a wall with no obvious way down while the screen says, “Alert”. Woman with one leg (at least two of these). Feet in heels seen under a desk, but no one is attached to them over the desk. Woman with a man’s lower half. Woman with one man leg and one woman leg (sitting down).