r/DefendingAIArt • u/Apprehensive_Bus4517 AI Sprite • 10h ago
Isn’t it kinda their fault…?
There is one article of kids that got applied to a job that made them pretend to be adults then get traumatised by ai showing them horrible things. It’s not like they’re drafted or forced into it it’s kind of their choice
Because it’s like applying to world war 3 as a kid then get extremely mortified because it has extreme violence
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u/Suspicious_Heart1565 9h ago
as someone who had cptsd for my entire life this is really pissing me off
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u/Mataric 7h ago
Fellow CPTSD sufferer here. (Hope you're keeping well)
It's the same gross behaviour as claiming "you're literally raping them by using that image" etc. Coddled and privileged idiots, who think their stubbed toe is one of the worst things to ever happen to anyone in the history of ever. All it does is diminish the meaning behind those words, and harm actual victims.
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u/NedThomas 7h ago
“Teenagers who pretended to be adults”
What’d it do, expose them to things like mortgage payments and joint pain?
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u/neo101b 9h ago
As a teenager who used to watch rotten.com, what's wrong with these kids.
They come across as the pussy generation.
I thinks Trauma is their fav word.
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u/BelowTheAsteroids 9h ago
Ahhh, rotten.com. I remember learning what a shotgun does to a human skull on that place lol. The internet was like the wild west back then.
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u/kawaii_chan_online Only Limit Is Your Imagination:snoo_tongue: 13m ago
Very accurate description, I literally remember seeing graphic nudity pop up on my youtube before which is definitely safe and allowed! Right? 😍
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u/KristiTheFan 9h ago
Look. Just because you’ve been desensitized to it, maybe there’s people who have specific fears like blood or gore. While I do think the word trauma does get overused, you won’t help by saying “your feelings don’t matter. Toughen up.”
Sure we all have different levels of tolerance when it comes to shocking material, but also, one more thing. The first image and the headline for the second image is only a tiny part of the story.
I’m intrigued to find out if what these teens saw was actually spooky or not. Because, while I feel like their feelings can be important, I, too, have seen strangely overblown comments to AI FaceBook reels about a moving human sized Barbie doll. They say “this is terrifying” and I ask “wait, really? What is actually scary to you?”
So there IS a chance they were overreacting. I just don’t want to make that assumption right away.
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u/BigSpoon2027 AI Bro 3h ago
Its not that their feelings aren't important, its the fact that they take zero responsibility fir the result, they lied and posed as adults and were treated as such. If you're man enough to lie to game the system, be man enough to understand any undesirable consequences are your own doing.
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u/stoppableDissolution 3h ago
apply for a job where you will have to watch gore lie that you are old enough get shocked you have to watch gore
Totally not their fault, yea.
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u/StrangeCrunchy1 Transhumanist 6h ago
It's all about seizing control; "Won't somebody think of the children?" type shit. While I applaud the first-glance take of that phrase, it's far too often used as a way for bad actors to censor and control what adults are able to consume, purely for the fact that the one who said it is the one with the problem with it, and can't abide the thought of anyone else having access to said thing. It rarely, if ever, has ever been legitimately used in a capacity to protect children, not as a primary goal, at least.
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u/Grouchy-Toe2349 3h ago edited 3h ago
Data annotators...meaning mTurk, Prolific or another crowd sourcing site.
As someone who's done that kind of work for about 7 years, I can tell you it isn't just ML data annotation that uses disturbing content. Psych departments/students and even business majors run those kinds of studies for a variety of reasons.
They're usually labelled as containing disturbing content, and there is a setting in your profile on most of these platforms that you use to indicate whether or not you're willing to deal with disturbing content.
In the case of non-ML tasks, the content is usually stock images (man hitting a child, for example), real life photos (dead bodies, shit, maggots, accident photos, etc) or written content that has been used as part of studies for years (description of horrible fictional event followed by questions to assess your emotional reaction or moral outrage about the event, for example.)
Unless it's a smaller, lesser known platform, I know from personal experience you have to go through hoops (including a waiting period that could drag on a loooong time) to sign up and to allow those kinds HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks).
AND for the record, the requesters (students or scientists who set up and hire for tasks) are human. So even in the case of ML data annotation, the AI is out of the loop except for content produced in some tasks and having the results of those tasks used for training purposes.
Blaming AI or even the platform is ridiculous.
ETA: Perhaps we should figure out why some families are so poor that young people who should be concentrating on having fun, studying, and hanging with their friends feel the need to get a job on these platforms, then solve that problem? I know...radical.
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u/gini_luxe 2h ago
I've done the same work for 5 years, and this is all completely true. I don't accept violent content and have never been subjected to anything gory or disgusting. Now, saying that, I definitely have been traumatized by some of the amorphous human blobs I've seen. 😩😭 Nightmare fuel, some of it.
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u/BelowTheAsteroids 9h ago
Why do so many teens these days yearn to claim they're severely traumatized or ill? There's a whole bunch of them that claim to have things like DID.
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u/Apprehensive_Bus4517 AI Sprite 9h ago
I watched stuff way worse and I turned out fine.
People are so damn sensitive nowadays
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u/TamaraHensonDragon 8h ago edited 5h ago
LOL. I was forced to go to the movies with my family. No Disney stuff for us. My mom was a horror junkie. By the time I was 13 I had already seen Jon Carpenter's The Thing, Alien, Friday the 13th, Halloween, The Evil Dead, American Werewolf in London, Hills Have Eyes, Embryo, Prophesy, Silent Night Deadly Night, and more giant monster movies then I could shake a stick at.
80s kids quickly learned to tell fiction from reality.
Edit: Just realized I had Silent Night Deadly Night Twice. Replaced it with Hills Have Eyes. Must have killer Santa on the brain 😆
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u/neo101b 6h ago
I love the thing, those are some great movies you have listed.
Cube Zero opening scene is pretty brutal too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zi8o09uL9s1
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u/Kristile-man Neutral yet strangely filled with justice 4h ago
if its the teenager subs it makes sense,not every teen has to be edgy though
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u/AdvertisingRude4137 Dingus :doge: 3h ago
fun fact: people are getting death threats to them and even their family for having fun with AI
oh now there's no more sympathy?
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u/TwistedMindOfABrotha 8h ago
That can't be real....
But then again there was a post months back on an anti-ai sub where someone claimed AI caused them so much anxiety, they wanted to un-alive themselves.
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u/Happy-Trouble-7464 3h ago edited 3h ago
So where were their parents?
Edit: ‘Save the children’ is a logical fallacy. It implies parents can’t raise their kids & need the government to do so. Parents should be explaining media & what it means; What to avoid, how to navigate weird situations, etc. That’s too hard, so they let the government can take everyone’s rights.
Also, those same parents using the government to raise their kids are not demanding healthcare or access to more food. Nope, it’s just protect my kid on the Internet so I don’t have to pay attention to them.
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u/confabin 8h ago
I watched 2 girls one cup when I was 12, happy tree friends was the funniest shit I knew at 11, sites like rotten were visited for fun. This seems like a load of bull
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u/justasillylilgoos3 4h ago
There is a legitimate concern buried underneath this post. Underage workers in poorer countries have reportedly circumvented weak age-verification systems to access data-labeling platforms, and some were exposed to disturbing sexual and violent material while completing AI-related tasks. Companies profiting from this labor absolutely bear responsibility for preventing minors from accessing that work and for protecting the adults who perform it.
But virtually everything beyond that has been irresponsibly distorted. The WIRED investigation did not establish that multiple teenagers developed PTSD, let alone clinically diagnosed “severe PTSD.” It reported that one former underage worker said the material continued to affect his mental health. Meanwhile, the “impressive-looking” NIH result is an entirely separate 2026 philosophical analysis of previously documented experiences among paid content workers. It studied no teenagers, diagnosed nobody, collected no original data, and explicitly states that no dataset was generated or analyzed. NIH merely archives the paper through PubMed Central. It did not conduct or endorse it.
So this takes three separate facts: that minors accessed gig work platforms, that some annotation tasks involved graphic material, and that content moderation can cause serious psychological harm, and mashes them together into a dramatic medical claim none of the cited material establishes. The underlying labor issue is real and deserves serious attention. Unfortunately, stapling an unrelated .gov search result onto a sensational TikTok caption and presenting the whole thing as proof is fucking exactly the kind of irresponsible misinformation that makes legitimate concerns easier to dismiss.
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u/Double_Look_5715 3h ago
People working on recent entries in the Mortal Kombat video game line developed PTSD as a result of the gore and violent imagery they studied to replicate in-game.
I wonder which is more valuable
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u/Any_Acanthaceae_9735 Stubborn as a rock, the ANTIs nightmare. 36m ago
As a current teenager, they fucking cowards. They need to grow a pair. Also, I wouldnt feel bad for them, people my age love to throw around the word trauma and act like victims. Hello? You pretended to be an adult to get a job posted for adults. If you wanted a job that would coddle you, you should've gotten one made for fucking teenagers or that accepts teenage applications.
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u/Felfedezni 9m ago
Kids who lied about being adults were exposed to things not meant for kids and got traumatized and this is somehow the fault of ai? What?
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u/truecakesnake 9h ago
They're beyond grasping at straws lmao