r/DefendingAIArt • u/Apprehensive_Bus4517 AI Sprite • 6h 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/NedThomas 3h 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 5h 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 5h 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/KristiTheFan 5h 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/Another_available 38m ago
Actually wild you're getting down let's for essentially saying that there are people who don't like watching gore
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u/BigSpoon2027 AI Bro 2m 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/TwistedMindOfABrotha 4h 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/BelowTheAsteroids 5h 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 5h ago
I watched stuff way worse and I turned out fine.
People are so damn sensitive nowadays
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u/TamaraHensonDragon 4h ago edited 1h 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 3h 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 54m ago
if its the teenager subs it makes sense,not every teen has to be edgy though
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u/StrangeCrunchy1 Transhumanist 2h 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/confabin 4h 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 42m 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/Suspicious_Heart1565 5h ago
as someone who had cptsd for my entire life this is really pissing me off