Does AI imagery help or hurt naturist visibility?
In this #UndressedThread, we’re asking where AI imagery fits into naturist outreach
AI imagery is starting to show up in naturist outreach, and for understandably practical reasons. By avoiding using real bodies, they can help to get past a long list of complications that come with publishing nude images online, including consent and licensing issues, not to mention avoiding algorithmic censorship of real bodies. At the same time, it replaces the central claim naturism has always made: that body acceptance grows from seeing real people in real social settings.
That leaves a genuine dilemma. Authentic naturist photos remain hard to source and harder to share. Who appears or is represented in these materials affects who feels safe participating, and which images survive moderation all shape what the public sees. The algorithms are biased by what they’re trained on, which is rarely authentic naturist material. For some, AI may fill the gaps, but only by inventing bodies that were never present, never vulnerable, and never consenting in the first place.
It all presents a very complicated—and compellingly timely—stage for debate. So, in this week’s #UndressedThread, we want to know where you land:
Does AI imagery weaken the case for naturism by replacing lived experience?
Can it be a useful stopgap for representation and outreach?
Or does it risk blurring consent, authenticity, and trust?
Share your thoughts in the comments. 🪐
When you have little or no way to determine if what you're seeing is real or not, what does "visibility" even mean? If real images of real bodies are flattened into the same noise as generated images of generated bodies, can those images - or any images - still contain any meaning? I don't think AI images will convey or not convey consent, authenticity, and trust, I'm more afraid that AI images will create a world were consent, authenticity, and trust simply are concepts that cannot be applied to anything seen online.
Just say no to AI. Keep it real.