How is this different than the status quo? Pornography is already a commoditized. I personally believe that people will pay for the parasocial interaction. Sure, AI will increase the amount of free content slop, but the amount of free content slop was already overwhelming. People will continue to pay more /because/ they imagine they have some kind of relationship with their favorite camgirl or vtuber.
It could result in bots that impersonate the object of desire. Not just as a parasite using somebody's pictures or videos, but by the object him/herself. Instead of talking to one person, you could talk to 1000 and each of them sees you wearing whatever they want, and generally doing whatever artistic behaviours they want to see - and have the impression that they have your full attention. I expect this will further push the attention towards a few, who will get very rich.
I wish someone loved me so I would not be excited about this.
I also do hope that this can lead people away from (instead of deeper into) (financially) parasitic, parasocial relationships/one-sided dependencies, which seem to be common when purely profit oriented companies or humans become involved.
Free and open source seems to be the way of healthy love here.
Interesting how porn seems to run with technologically 2-3 years ahead of other “industries”. This is nice if this leads to less exploitation of humans … bad if this leads to more social isolation / depression.
It's a little weird that we can induce addiction remotely, through the sense of vision, using purely computational means. Maybe not as weird as memes, but close. By putting a person and a neural net in a control loop, I wonder how much you can influence, say, their hormone levels. Surely the media have been hacking fear-attention and cortisol for a long time. But what happens as this becomes even more automated? We'll be like those Australian beetles, if we aren't already.
Based on the hordes of AI generated models with OnlyFans profiles, it seems like it might already be having an effect. Wouldn't be surprised if it was being used for a lot of this sort of content on other sites and services too.
This is already happening. I know someone who's making an adult game in Twine for fun, and they use AI images for just about everything because they're not an artist. They say while there's inconsistencies, it gives them more freedom to depict what they want without the high cost of hiring an artist for near-photo realistic digital painting. From what they've told me, they're not alone in jumping on the idea and there's a wave of Twine porn games using AI images. And some even go so far as to mix in real people with AI generated depictions of them to fill in the gaps for the desired content.
Most people would disregard such things because they're just "stupid games for perverts" and not think about the impact, but if such things get normalized in adult gaming it's bound to spread out from there. Normalization is normalization no matter where it starts from, after all. A major concern of mine is that somebody creates images for such a game, and the images and content are based on a real person that the game's creator personally knows. If the game gets traction, that person's privacy would essentially be gone, and their sense of identity would be shattered because they aren't a public figure. There have already been instances of teenagers using AI image generators to create fakes of fellow students in order to blackmail them or just enjoy for themselves.
It never is until it happens, it was the same thing with deepfakes until you know, it became that deep with Taylor Swift. At this point, all perspectives must be accounted for knowing how it can be used, maliciously or else.
This article is stupid (frankly) and written from an exceptionally prejudiced porn-is-evil perspective. I’m wondering whether it qualifies for flagging.
