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Meta wants everyone to create AI images. Indian men chose misogyny

AI tools can be governed eventually. But who will govern the men?

Meta would like you to make something with its AI tools. For weeks now, it has been popping up in your Instagram feed with friendly prompts and ready templates, nudging you to become a creator, too. You could generate a corgi being spirited off by a bald eagle or a mock news interview with Donald Trump, which, on the misinformation scale, would merit a “WTF?” but still be inoffensive. Neither would ruin your life. But Indian men have — unsurprisingly — chosen misogyny.

The result is a feed peppered with reels of women who look like someone and no one at the same time, wearing sarees that slip off their synthetic bodies in slow motion. In videos set to trending songs, they are attacked by stray cows who rip their clothes apart, while the men in the comments cheer on their humiliation. Thousands of views are drawn by videos of pregnant women, who can apparently select the sex of their child, by lying down in a comic-book contraption — serving two fetishes at the same time. Slop doesn’t even begin to describe it.

They show up with bare navels and exaggerated bodies in the fantasies of schoolboys and adult men alike. I’m afraid it only gets worse from here. Mirrored in these reels are the most depraved and taboo categories from mainstream pornography, like mothers and sons. There are women in sexual scenarios, talking dirty with multiple black men. An account with 39,000 followers, which routinely hits millions of views, is dedicated entirely to videos that leave nothing to the imagination, featuring a creepy old man and a very young woman.

All of these accounts accumulate tens of thousands of followers who do not seem to mind, or perhaps do not notice, that the woman they are following is not a woman at all. But variations of this rabid impulse to control the images of women have existed since the dawn of the image itself.

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