Criminals and the porn industry are almost invariably early adopters of new technologies. For better or worse their use-cases are proof-of-concepts that get expanded and built on, if successful, by more legitimate industries.

Re: the Internet.

Re: Peer-to-peer.

Re: Video streaming.

Re: AI.

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lapetitejort 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

What is the average length of time for new tech to escape porn and crime and integrate into real applications? Longer than 15 years?

	▲	BLKNSLVR 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Some kind of function of how quickly regulation comes to the technology.

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denismenace 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

How were criminals the early adopters of Internet, Video streaming and AI?

	▲	wnevets 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They weren't but it makes certain people feel better to say it.
	▲	BLKNSLVR 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Single examples: Internet: The Cuckoo's Egg (nation state, more so than criminals maybe, but it's a blurry distinction) AI: Elon Musk youtube (often cryptocurrency scam) ads Video streaming was more obviously exclusively a porn thing