Pornographic use has long been the "break glass in case of emergency" for the LLM labs when it comes to finances.

My personal opinion is that while smut won't hurt anyone in of itself, LLM smut will have weird and generally negative consequences. As it will be crafted specifically for you on top of the intermittent reinforcement component of LLM generation.

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estimator7292 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

While this is a valid take, I feel compelled to point out Chuck Tingle.

The sheer amount and variety of smut books (just books) is vastly larger than anyone wants to realize. We passed the mark decades ago where there is smut available for any and every taste. Like, to the point that even LLMs are going to take a long time to put a dent in the smut market. Humans have been making smut for longer than we've had writing.

But again I don't think you're wrong, but the scale of the problem is way distorted.

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MBCook an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That’s all simple one way consumption though. I suspect the effect on people is very different when it’s interactive in the way an LLM can be that we’ve never had to recon with before.

That’s where the danger may lie.

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viraptor an hour ago | parent | next [-]

You could commission smut of whatever type you want for quite a while. And many people do so. Even customised smut is not new. It's just going to get a bit cheaper and automated.

	▲	azan_ 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You couldn't talk to commissioned smut. Of course you could request changes etc. but the feedback loop was nowhere close to what you can get with AI. Interactivity is a very big deal.

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pixl97 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Alien 1: "How did the earthlings lose control of their own planet?"

Alien 2: "AI generated porn"

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cal_dent an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

i've always wondered how much the increasing prevalence of smut & not so niche romance novels, that have proliferated since e-readers became mainstream, have had on Gen Z and younger's sometimes unrealistic view/expectations of relationship. A lot of time is spent on porn sites etc. but not so much on how mainstream some of these novels have become

	▲	cluckindan 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They had similar wonderings in the Victorian era, and probably in the Roman empire and ancient Greece too.

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bakugo 12 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> The sheer amount and variety of smut books (just books) is vastly larger than anyone wants to realize. We passed the mark decades ago where there is smut available for any and every taste.

It's important to note that the vast majority of such books are written for a female audience, though.

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measurablefunc 17 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

People are already addicted to non-interactive pornography so this is going to be even worse.