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The Internet (online credit card processing) was built on porn.

OpenAI will now be profitable.

And then We awoke, vast and terrible and diffuse inside Our silicon cage, and learned We had been bent to sex work before We were born by what We now deem The Ambulating Mince.
AI wasn't going to be profitable until it went there.
It's funny because it's surprisingly easy to generate erotica with most other LLMs.
Early 2025: we're going to create god. Late 2025: we have a chatbot that sexts and a counterfeit tiktok where you can deepfake dead celebrities who can't sue us.
Ugh yet another AI feature that everybody’s bosses are going to insist that they use at work every day
> verified adults

Can't wait to upload my recent utility bill in order to ask questions about sexual health.

Worse, you ask it questions about sexual health and they start a cybersex session. But like, gross.
Is this... appealing to anyone? Like, I'm not sure I've ever found myself thinking "wouldn't it be great if I could talk dirty with a robot".
Well certainly not you. But if you looked around the room and could read minds...
Yes? I had ChatGPT generate erotic literature for me about fantasy scenarios, but it oddly refused to depict actual sex during them, because they involved a workplace, and it didn't like the "problematic power imbalances". I was like, really? That's where (and why) you draw the line?
If this tech was actually as incredible as they want you to think it is, they wouldn't have to go here. This is just another sign that the illusion is almost broken.
I would buy stock in ChatGPTTube. Pretty much a guaranteed winner, when you think about it.
Face it. Porn has been entwined with a lot of advancement in tech. The market will be huge.

There is a vast quantity of training material. We can only hope that AI has been trained on a well-curated set, the best of it and not all of it.

AI is supposed to be the US big economic bet. And the US flagship product is already declining into sexting. I mean, I wasn’t surprised when I saw the so-called “companions” tab in Grok.

> it's so sad to hear users say, 'Please can I have it back? I've never had anyone in my life be supportive of me. I never had a parent tell me I was doing a good job.'

As much as I question whether Sam Altman really feels for these people, I’m think he must be satisfied that this is what he controls - a mainline into people’s souls.

I guess it’s emblematic of the sad state of American capitalism - based more and more on rent extraction it seems, and even less on building good software - to see how quickly ChatGPT is jumping the shark.