[jonathanstrange]

Not sure if that counts as a second order effect, but porn actors/actresses will soon be almost obsolete. Basically, they only need to work on the hands and sexual organs a bit more and get movies more stable, but this work is progressing rapidly. As far as I can see, porn will be almost completely AI-generated within the next few years.

There will be insane amounts of lawsuits, since the content generated by AI is often pretty much like copy & pasting existing images and persons. Most prompt-based generation is not creative enough to make the end result count as original artwork. However, big corporations will take over AI content generation almost entirely, and they'll be able to shield themselves from those lawsuits using clever legal and licensing tactics.

[have_faith]

> As far as I can see, porn will be almost completely AI-generated within the next few years

How confident are you about that? I can see AI taking over a small subset, creating new categories etc, but I doubt the sheer breadth of porn available on the internet is going to get replaced.

I would expect to hear that fake video avatars have completely taken over OnlyFans before AI is generating picture and audio perfect lengthy porn scenes that covers the vast array of categories porn sites offer. Maybe this is happening though and I'm just unaware.

[jerpint]

I think we’re still far from being able to generate long, coherent videos, but lots of progress is being made. One thing seems clear, all you need to make a good model is lots of data with lots of metadata like captions, and if there’s one thing the internet is full of, it’s porn videos with titles and captions and categories.

[haunter]

Yeah the holographic personal entertainment device in THX 1138 doesn't seem that far fetched nowadays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn-Sa0MlFkg