Since When Did a Yawn Become a Porno?

Why We Need More Women to Embrace AI

It was a simple request.

I had just written about what’s being called “The Great Exhaustion” and decided to illustrate it with an AI-generated image of me yawning.

Beulah (my pet name for my AI agents) did a respectable job.

I don’t quite understand why it turned my Oura ring (which I wear on my pointer finger) into a wedding band on the wrong hand, but maybe AI (like my late mother) wants me to get coupled up. But I won’t get too judge-y. My earrings are accurate.

But here’s when things got weird….

I decided to turn the still image into a video. Since when is a yawn more like an erotic moan? And why do I suddenly look like a sex-starved Heidi Klum?

I won’t bore you with a feminist rant.

But we clearly have a problem here!

The media has recently been covering the hyper-sexualization of images of women in AI, and this is proof positive that AI may be intelligent, but it clearly lacks gentlemanly skills and an understanding of a human yawn.

What’s the solution? More women need to learn and become active in the next wave of technological innovation, and to re-prompt their agents to understand what real women are like!

I did try a couple of other agents too, which produced less erotic results. But I decided to end my prompting for the day and head to the library to pick up this book, written by Sophie Gilbert, who’s been speaking out recently about women and AI.

I’m not a porn star, an OF girl, or a whiner. I’m a problem-solver.

I’m launching something big and bold this coming week, related to women in tech. Want to hear about it? Hit that purple button, below.

P.S. Thank you to Franklin Studios, who shot the original image on which the creepy AI was based. It certainly makes the case for HUMAN photography (especially women shooting women)!