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by hansmayer 239 days ago
Porn is always a safe bet, and I'd give them thumbs up if the crap finally disappears from the public space and we can go back to doing the actually innovative stuff.
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The problem with porn is post-nut clarity. No one will choose to pay AI companies $x/month if users regret their purchase after releasing their pent-up energy.
> The problem with porn is post-nut clarity. No one will choose to pay AI companies $x/month if users regret their purchase after releasing their pent-up energy[.]

In a brothel (a market that AI-powered sex dolls might partly disrupt), customers don't get their money back if they regret their "purchase" after releasing their pent-up energy.

> In a brothel (a market that AI-powered sex dolls might partly disrupt)

Would it disrupt the brothel? I'm inexperienced in the field, but I'm pretty sure in a proper establishment I'd rather go with a real human rather than an AI-powered sex doll, no matter the cost.

But what do I know, human sexuality is very diverse.

in a brothel they actually mate with human beings -- completing the actual act, even if mechanical and compensated.

chatbots will never do that. it's like eating an image of bread vs. eating stale bread -- yeah it's not the good, ideal fresh bread, but it's actual bread.

Definitely. AI sex puppets would kill online porn faster than Betamax killed the XXX movie theater.
So actually I did not care about online porn. Was referring to actually the whole non-innovation of generative AI finally finding its niche in the very profitable sex-market and disappearing from other domains.
Ah, yes I understand. But wouldn't it be great if AI and online porn disappeared from the public domain together?
I am not sure - online porn satisfies a market demand, and it's not like it is absolutely everywhere - you have to deliberately search for it. The so-called AI is omnipresent, but its not clear what actual problem it is solving, unless we count helping the Joe Bullshit in performing his bullshit job.