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Shocked to hear ‘prompt engineer’ is not a real job (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Oh, where to start.

Sexy woman coded, perhaps, unless you're saying that women who don't have prominent breasts and what appears to be makeup aren't real women

But this is a drawing of a machine. Machines don't have gender, biological or social or otherwise. Whoever created this image thought, consciously or not, "I'm going to make a picture of a robot, and I'm gonna make it a sexy woman robot." Not just a "woman-coded" humanoid robot - because that can be done without playing heavy on the sexiness, right?

So why? Why make a sexy woman robot? I ask again: Am I supposed to want to fuck it?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Sexy woman coded, perhaps, unless you’re saying that women who don’t have prominent breasts and what appears to be makeup aren’t real women

Why are you conflating “real”ness with sexiness?

But this is a drawing of a machine. Machines don’t have gender, biological or social or otherwise.

This is actually incorrect. Gender is a social construct. Anything can have gender if (a) society agrees upon it.

Whoever created this image thought, consciously or not, “I’m going to make a picture of a robot, and I’m gonna make it a sexy woman robot.” Not just a “woman-coded” humanoid robot […]

You have not proved this. Also, which is it? Machines don’t have gender, or this machine is a sexy woman robot? Your analysis and discourse are inconsistent and lacking.

because that can be done without playing heavy on the sexiness, right?

Again, the image is not particularly sexy. Just having large breast-analogs in the picture doesn’t make it sexy, unless you’re a stereotypical teenage boy.

So why? Why make a sexy woman robot? I ask again: Am I supposed to want to fuck it?

You have not earned the right to ask these questions.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

here's another version of the same sketch

a machine is constructed in the form of a pretty lady to present you with a magical answer and the answer is a lie too

and the hand is empty and the style is retro pop art of a comforting past that never existed

now what could the incredibly obvious symbolism here mean, why all these choices

hope our poster never goes to an art gallery, could be fatal

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I don't get it. It's like you're saying the sexy robot woman is a representation of seductive futuristic promises of a problematic technology. I don't see how that ties into the article at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

we sincerely hope not

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Are you saying that women who don't have prominent breasts or wear makeup aren't sexy?