Artificial intelligence, particularly its intersection with pornography, could have a huge impact on gender relations offline.
Kim Kardashian’s appearance on the Met Gala red carpet this week – having hoicked herself into a corset so tiny she struggled to breathe, and walk – is probably not what the suffragettes fought for.
According to a new book on gender inequality online, girls are groomed by influencers such as Kardashian to be digital consumers, which sets them up for passivity in the online universe.But according to Carla Wilshire, the author of, this digital-led polarisation is also happening along gender lines.
Among young girls, however, Wilshire found “there was heightened anxiety and a sense that online was not a safe space for them”. Second, the algorithm that tracks your every like, purchase and scroll forces girls and boys in totally different directions. Large-language models such as ChatGPT work by predicting the next best word in a text, like an “auto-complete function on steroids”, Wilshire says, based on patterns detected in “roughly all the printed words produced by humanity over the course of our written history”. If that history is gender-biased, the bot’s output will be too.
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