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AI porn addiction Both general research and the success of OnlyFans suggest that personalized porn is already quite addictive. AI emotion analysis via webcam and microphone can identify what you like and a reinforcement-learning AI can learn to produce a script for more of what you like. In combination with AI image / video generation, the whole system then creates a self-reinforcing feedback loop. Maybe add ChatGPT…

This problem is already materializing. What do you recommend for solutions?

Re: Ask HN: What tech utopia/horror ideas do you see materialising soon?

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AI porn addiction Both general research and the success of OnlyFans suggest that personalized porn is already quite addictive. AI emotion analysis via webcam and microphone can identify what you like and a reinforcement-learning AI can learn to produce a script for more of what you like. In combination with AI image / video generation, the whole system then creates a self-reinforcing feedback loop. Maybe add ChatGPT…

This problem is already materializing. What do you recommend for solutions?

The answer to these type of questions is almost always let it run its course and in a few generations the gene pool will change to favor people where this is steadily less and less a problem. It is important to note that that is not the correct answer because it is a good answer, it is the correct answer because the alternatives are draconian and terrible to the point of being worse.

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AI is here - we just haven't noticed it yet. An entire class of problems are fairly solvable with the current tech with good unit economics, the market is still figuring itself out. If you think AI is going to replace your job, it probably is. But that's only true if you consider your job to be the motions you go through day to day and not the problems you solve. We are about to have a seemingly infinite army of mid-…

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While there's increasingly good reasons to introduce basic income there seems to be little substantial movement in that direction. I have a feeling that the reasonableness of basic income will grow at about the same pace as the power of workers will diminish. Not sure if there's a way to change that equation? Introducing a very small basic income that is planned to grow might be a good way to go about this.

I'm of the mindset and have been for awhile that the FASTER we crash, as a society --- the faster we hit rock bottom with ai taking jobs, and opportunity loss skyrocketing, the faster we get to the inflection point. Call it futuristic acceleration-ism or something akin to that, but I also feel like as bad as Trump was we needed him and his ilk to show how corrupt the govt is and can go. He was in many ways a 'good' t…

> He was in many ways a 'good' thing for America, by exposing the worst of America.

I remember reading that the Democrats were really pleased the Republicans chose him, because s/the worst of America/The Republican Party/g, and were shocked that he was popular.

Re: Ask HN: What tech utopia/horror ideas do you see materialising soon?

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We'll have to prove ourselves to be human all the time. We're facing a life of many, many Turing tests – with us being the ones trying to prove we're human.

"I am not a robot" already feels like doublespeak if you ask me.

A "My 'I am not a robot' T-shirt has led to many questions answered by the T-shirt" vibe?

Re: Ask HN: What tech utopia/horror ideas do you see materialising soon?

#127

AI porn addiction Both general research and the success of OnlyFans suggest that personalized porn is already quite addictive. AI emotion analysis via webcam and microphone can identify what you like and a reinforcement-learning AI can learn to produce a script for more of what you like. In combination with AI image / video generation, the whole system then creates a self-reinforcing feedback loop. Maybe add ChatGPT…

This problem is already materializing. What do you recommend for solutions?

For starters, make sure nobody under 18 can watch porn and figure out regulations that hold the companies accountable. If a 13 year old can be kept from online gambling, they can be kept from online porn. It doesn't have to be 100% effective, just start trying. It shouldn't be that hard to make a lot of improvement. I'm actually sort of disturbed that this hasn't already happened and that the current state of things isn't seen as a problem.
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