Shereen Wu says leading designer uploaded altered picture, amid fears AI could ‘turn back the clock’ on progress in the industry

Shereen Wu says leading designer uploaded altered picture, amid fears AI could ‘turn back the clock’ on progress in the industry

    • 520@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      Rally behind a flag of exploited youths.

      What exactly do you think we are doing?

      Just don’t be surprised when the industry does this shit. It’s what they’ve always done.

      You don’t have to be surprised to find something worth talking about. We talk about unhinged politicians all the time, yet we’ve come to expect them. We talk about school shootings all the time, yet they are not a surprise any more.

      So, when someone willingly joins them, and then complains about things being just as bad as everyone already knows, we can all look at them with pity, because they were too stupid to make the right choice earlier.

      So your solution is for the victim here to simply leave the entire industry? Heh. Sure. Because that’ll totally pan out alright.

      How many industry swaps have you done in your lifetime, bud? Because with a new industry comes new skillsets and completely different training requirements, which often takes years to complete, not to mention requiring completely different ways of thinking.

      “This wheat thresher destroyed my legs!” Says the person who jumped into the wheat thresher, while still inside the wheat thresher.

      “This school shooter blew my legs off”, says the foolhardy teen who had the audacity to become a student in the USA, then complain about school shooters.

      This is how disconnected from reality you sound.

        • 520@kbin.social
          5·
          1 year ago

          So it’s her fault that she’s suffering from racial prejudices in the fashion industry? Because she dared to join and ‘we all know what they’re like’?

          Interesting logic. Let’s expand on that.

          Are all women at fault for any misogyny they encounter in the tech industry? That industry’s problem with women is VERY well documented, so they must know what they’re getting into, right?

          Or how about BMEs working in healthcare. The racial discrimination issues there are also well documented, so we can let those slide right, because they should have known?

          People like you are the reason these things don’t improve. Your acceptance of this status quo sickens me.

            • 520@kbin.social
              5·
              1 year ago

              Healthcare. Tech. Shit, restaurant work. Pick a fucking profession that is even remotely necessary for the human race to progress.

              So fashion gets a special racism pass because other industries are more essential?

              You also forget that fashion has a big influence on wider culture. If racism is accepted there, it will seep into wider culture from that front.

              Or is she at fault because she trained to work in the fashion industry and not another industry that you would prefer?

              You’re delusional, dude. Thinking people deserve racism because they work in a field you don’t like. Does that make you more elitist or racist? I can’t tell. Definitely a mixture though.

                • 520@kbin.social
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  Ahhh okay. So just destroy an entire industry just because you don’t like it. Gotcha. That sounds totally reasonable.

                  So let’s put that mix at mostly elitist, but also racist because you somehow believe this woman’s issues with racial discrimination can be brushed aside simply because of the industry she works in.

                  Hey, while we’re at it let’s destroy the music industry too. It’s not strictly needed for human advancement. The movie industry can go too. Heck, all acting roles must go!

                  In all seriousness, you’re crazy if you think the entire destruction of industries is the way to solve this. You are not right, you are insane. The fashion industry has existed for literal millennia. So long as people want to express themselves with clothing, it will always be a thing. There is no reason it has to go hand in hand with racism, and it can be reformed.

          • magnetosphere@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            People are allowed to be upset by racism even if the target doesn’t seem to care. The labor and image rights are also a major part of the story.

            Besides, according to the article, Costello has been accused of shit like this before. I wouldn’t be so quick to say that the reporter decided to “invent the racist motivation”.