It\u2019s hard to pinpoint to the exact moment that AI \u201cwent too far,\u201d but I think that many would agree it was the time when people started to use it to non-consensually remove people\u2019s clothing. For reasons unknown, some felt that developing a computer program to automatically strip people down was degrading, and that even if AI *could* do this, it certainly wasn\u2019t something it *should* do.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why it was surprising when an AI company posted an ad last week promoting their new augmented reality project \u2014 in which the literal *first thing they do* is remove the actors\u2019 shirts and pants.<\/p>\n
The service, called Decart, allows people to use AI to create an augmented reality experience that the company says works in real time. For example, you can put on VR glasses, tell Decart to make the world look like it\u2019s made out of Swedish Fish, then boom, you\u2019re in a red dye 40-filled paradise.<\/p>\n
Rather than start with an example like that, however, the advertisement opens with a group of actors who, over the course of a few frames, go from wearing normal clothing to wearing swimsuits. While this may have struck the developers as fun and whimsical, to everyone else it just seemed like a roundabout way to get a computer to undress a stranger.<\/p>\n
The company has, of course, not responded to the controversy. But simply knowing that this exists gives us all another excuse to feel uneasy around people wearing AR glasses.<\/p>\n
DecartXR: AI meets XR
“welcome to the Oasis”<\/p>\n
An open-source app that lets you transform your world in real time, just by speaking.<\/p>\n
A new way to create, build, and imagine \u2014 live.<\/p>\n
See below how to build with this tech (and a demo on Meta Quest or web) pic.twitter.com\/L6ofTni4l0<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Decart (@DecartAI) October 4, 2025<\/a>