Why did the study target X?
The University of Michigan research team worried that their experiment posting AI-generated NCII on X may cross ethical lines.
They chose to conduct the study on X because they deduced it was “a platform where there would be no volunteer moderators and little impact on paid moderators, if any” viewed their AI-generated nude images.
X’s transparency report seems to suggest that most reported non-consensual nudity is actioned by human moderators, but researchers reported that their flagged content was never actioned without a DMCA takedown.
Since AI image generators are trained on real photos, researchers also took steps to ensure that AI-generated NCII in
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