[Misc] Are you pro or anti AI?

[Greg Bobkin]

What a time to be alive

 

[BBassic]

Which is someone ironic, as a lot of Internet porn is now also AI generated (so a friend told me).

Imagine the disappointment and feeling you've been slightly cheated after you've just shot your load and then you realise that the woman you've just been tossing yourself off to isn't even real.

It's one thing being scammed out of thousands of pounds by an online scammer, but being scammed out of a wank is taking things too far.

There's an argument to be made here that this is an ethical and good use of AI.

I.E creating salacious material that has little chance of being the product of coercion or crime. You hear stories of women forced to work in these camsite farms (for lack of a better term) for no money at all. Videos and photos produced by an AI "artist" does away with all that.

Then the flipside, because there's always a flipside, is the negative effect that could have on women who have chosen sex work. A human can only churn out so much material whereas some AI can flood the market.

Incidentally - what a time to be alive when we can be discussing the relative merits and pitfalls of AI generated nudity vs. flesh and blood on a dreary Monday morning.

 

[marlowe]

There's an argument to be made here that this is an ethical and good use of AI.

I.E creating salacious material that has little chance of being the product of coercion or crime. You hear stories of women forced to work in these camsite farms (for lack of a better term) for no money at all. Videos and photos produced by an AI "artist" does away with all that.

Then the flipside, because there's always a flipside, is the negative effect that could have on women who have chosen sex work. A human can only churn out so much material whereas some AI can flood the market.

Incidentally - what a time to be alive when we can be discussing the relative merits and pitfalls of AI generated nudity vs. flesh and blood on a dreary Monday morning.

An even more interesting argument, albeit a far more controversial and sensitive one would be if that also applies to child pornography.

Would it decrease the sexual abuse and exploitation of real children or merely encourage it?

 

[BBassic]

An even more interesting argument, albeit a far more controversial and sensitive one would be if that also applies to child pornography.

Would it decrease the sexual abuse and exploitation of real children or merely encourage it?

I would imagine that'd be outlawed. Rightly so.

 

[CheeseRolls]

It’s only really the office bods that should be worried it’s hardly going to start plumbing and hanging doors.

It absolutely will. There will be new builds where they way that things like doors and pipeworks are designed by AI so that they can swiftly be installed by robotics. This will usher in an era of lower cost housing. That still leaves plenty of retrofit work, which I think is going to be more a constraint for robotics rather than AI.

The flip side of this is that I think we will see a new class of crafts people emerge, as people are prepared to pay a premium for quality and individuality. Some of these will be genuine traditional crafts people, some may just be AI curators, who share their own good taste, influence and supply chain knowledge. Some of this maybe makes no sense, but there will be plenty of people prepared to pay a premium to not have an AI design, even if that in itself is a facade.

 

[CheeseRolls]

Apologies for not answering the question. Pro AI, we just need to actively decide how and where we use and engage with it.
I have zero interest in having a personal AI assistant.

 

[chickens]

A good article here on how AI is speeding the development of robotics.

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(Apologies if behind a paywall) - for those who can’t be arsed to read or can’t navigate any paywall, there’s a comment on there from someone working in robotics suggesting that humanoid style robots that can work in a mixed environment with humans could be possible, whereas previously they’ve been considered a pipe dream.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

I'm anti-AI, although primarily due to the lack of understanding that the World has. The younger generation seem to be less challenging of information and more accepting of what they see on social media as true. AI, used in the right context, would be a positive thing, unfortunately it'll be used in nefarious ways.