Corey Doctorow has a good article about this.

If Donald Trump ordered Big Tech to turn off all of your country’s chatbots tomorrow, nothing would change. Every one of your country’s ministries and corporations would chug on with nary a hitch. Households, too, though perhaps a few of the younger members of those families would have to do their own homework again.

Contrast this with what would transpire if Trump directed his tech giants to switch off your country’s Office 365 access, or to brick your Android and iOS phones, or to killswitch your John Deere tractors. Your country would effectively cease to exist.

Sure, tons of people are using AI, but that isn’t because they need AI to get their jobs done or even that AI makes their jobs easier. It’s because their bosses are convinced that they need to be using AI because it will change everything.

That isn’t even a good analogy, because chainsaw sculptures are a thing.

AI should do tedious tasks for creative people, not creative tasks for tedious people.

Let me see if I understand you correctly. You believe that our views on sex work are the result of evolutionary biology. They are not influenced by culture or religion. Correct?

Given that, every civilization’s views on sex work should be very similar?

(Also, are you talking only about prostitution? Or all types of sex work? Or only certain types?)

But seriously, do you think this is a controversial view?

I don’t care whether it’s controversial or not.

Do you think people want children or friends to have to do sex work?

Obviously that work isn’t appropriate for children.

If a friend had to do sex work to make ends meet, I wouldn’t judge them harshly, though. It’s their body.

I’m not talking about human trafficking. If somebody’s being forced to do any kind of work, that’s slavery, and it’s wrong. I’m talking about somebody choosing to do the work voluntarily.

Would anybody go “oh wow I’m so proud of you”? I do not think so.

Most of the jobs I’ve had did not make anybody go “Oh, wow, I’m so proud of you”, but I did them anyway, because I needed the money. Most people don’t have a problem with this and they just accept it as part of life. The only time when people get weird about it is when sex is involved, and that’s due to puritanical ideas.

Do you feel this way about other kinds of work?

Does it matter if the object of desire is “real”

If it doesn’t matter to you, then it doesn’t matter.

Just because you know superheroes aren’t real doesn’t mean you cant enjoy the movie or low and behold have a wet dream of superman flying holding you in his arms.

Lo* and behold. The phrase is “lo and behold” lol

Imagination is good. Using your imagination is good. That isn’t what we’re talking about here. What we’re talking about is AI-generated porn, essentially.

Once I’m aware that something is AI-generated, it becomes gross and weird. That’s how I feel, but I acknowledge that you might not feel that way.

People have been thirsting over lara crofts 3d boobs, i am not even gonna get started on japan.

Was not expecting random racism.

LLMs do have purposes, and they had purposes before this current crop of chatbots dubbed “AI” came along. The problem is with “generative AI”.

Cory Doctorow has a great article about it here. It’s an “emperor wears no clothes” situation.

In the 500+ employee businesses Suresh studied, the only people who were promoted — or even spared from being fired — were people who professed “religious declarations of faith” about “the transformative power of AI.” Employees who voiced honest, informed objections to AI in the workplace were passed over for promotions or targeted for layoffs.

This has created a situation in which everyone — “boards, executives, employees, vendors, consultants” — has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies. Suresh says he’s seen announcements from publicly traded companies about their AI triumphs that he knows for a fact never took place.

Suresh says he’s never seen a successful enterprise AI project: “Every single one — we have seen 0% success in a year and a half.”

Additionally, all of the AI companies are still operating in the red. They still aren’t turning a profit 4 years after the release of ChatGPT.

I’m running into a lot of nuts on Lemmy today. Who moved the fucking rock?!

So AI generated VR porn with cyberdildonics actually could make much of sex work redundant.

I doubt that the technology is there. Or, if it is, it’s prohibitively expensive.

Theoretically this is a good thing. No human needs to do sex work or porn or onlyfans just for money if they don’t genuinely enjoy doing it.

You honestly don’t believe that there are sex workers who are relying on their job for a paycheck? Why?

This but unironically.

Which means I may have been thirsting over a human all this time, ugh.

So thirsting over AI is your preference? Eww

I mean, I hear women complain about how men use them as a substitute for therapy, so I assume that they aren’t just talking about how awesome they are.

Entitled to what?

This is not a general media article. It’s Futurism.com.

Is Baby Gronk the new Drip King, or is he just getting rizzed up by Livvy?

Or back in the old days a guy with a high voice on the sexphone telling they are “so wet in bed right now” while making dinner for the family?

I won’t say that never happened, but I think it’s highly unlikely that there were a lot of dudes taking voice lessons so that they could get a job as a phone sex operator.

They’ll talk to a non-dude about feelings. Their feelings. In fact, they’ll do that instead of seeing a therapist.

Maybe, but I wouldn’t be leaving those comments for real women, either. E-girls existed long before AI did. What do these guys think is going to happen? Are these the dudes who go to strip clubs and think that the dancer is going to go home with them?

I thought he’d given up after his previous failures. Okay, dude, waste your money…