Civitai, where users share AI models and AI-made images, including nonconsensual porn of real people, debuts a bounties feature and raised a $5.1M a16z-led seed
404 Media Emanuel Maiberg
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- We've Raised $5.1M in Seed Funding Led By Andreessen Horowitz Civitai
- Andreessen Horowitz backs Civitai, a generative AI content marketplace with millions of users TechCrunch
- Company lobbying against AI reg is invested in AI porn. Who woulda thot? — https://www.404media.co/... @Blob_Calder@federate.social
- So this is the “Techno-Optimism” I've heard so much about. — 404 Media: Andreessen Horowitz Invests in Civitai, Which Profits From Nonconsensual AI Porn — https://www.404media.co/... @fraying@xoxo.zone
- Hardly a shock that Andreessen — who calls “tech ethics” and “social responsibility” the enemies of progress and believes any deceleration of AI will result in lost lives and therefore is essentially murder — is funding a company like this. https://www.404media.co/... @robwright@infosec.exchange
- Andreessen Horowitz Invests in Civitai, Which Profits from Nonconsensual AI Porn Hacker News
Discussion
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@moskov
Dustin Moskovitz
on threads
It's unethical to work with a16z. https://twitter.com/...
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@thebrianpenny
Brian Penny
on threads
They also don't respect opt outs. Civitai is a scourge to every artist and celeb I know
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@alex.pagliuca
Alex Pagliuca
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As I said, guard rails... This is reprehensible. Straight up disgusting. https://www.404media.co/...
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@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social
Taylor Lorenz
on mastodon
Andreessen Horowitz is funding an AI platform that has been repeatedly shown to be a major engine for nonconsensual AI porn. The platform is even offering “bounties” for AI models of specific people, including ordinary citizens https://www.404media.co/...
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@shakeelhashim
Shakeel
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Andreessen Horowitz, the company most vociferously advocating against AI regulation, is financially invested in a company that lets you generate nonconsensual AI porn of real people — both celebrities and private citizens. [image]
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@samleecole
Samantha Cole
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civitai is massively popular because people use it for spreading AI generated non-consensual porn. guess how that's paid off? a $5.1 million in a seed funding round led by the “techno-optimists” at a16z https://www.404media.co/...
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@josephfcox
Joseph Cox
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Incredible. TechCrunch speaks to the CEO of CivitAI (who has dodged our requests for comment for months as we reveal CivitAI is an engine for nonconsensual porn) and does a softball interview about their funding, don't even discuss the platform's abuse https://techcrunch.com/... …
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@josephfcox
Joseph Cox
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To spell it out: one of the most powerful VC firms, which invested in Facebook, Lyft, etc, has now given millions of dollars to a company that just yesterday we showed is giving financial incentive to create nonconsensual AI models of random people https://www.404media.co/... [im…
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@josephfcox
Joseph Cox
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Scoop: a16z is the money behind CivitAI, an AI platform that we've repeatedly shown is the engine for nonconsensual AI porn. We also revealed the site is offering “bounties” for AI models of specific people, including ordinary citizens https://www.404media.co/... [image]