It's a real pity.
People/mostly women do actually make a living from images like this. They do it safely (presumably) from home. Looks AI is going to even put the webcam girls out of business.
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#12Unbelievable!
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#13It's a real pity. People/mostly women do actually make a living from images like this. They do it safely (presumably) from home. Looks AI is going to even put the webcam girls out of business.
It's interesting to think about the ethics of AI generated porn. You obviously have the classic "AI is taking people's jobs", but then you have issues about whether sex work is evil, if jerking off to an AI generated image instead of a real person is degrading, what to do if one of the images used to train the AI was taken illegally, and so on.
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#14It's a real pity. People/mostly women do actually make a living from images like this. They do it safely (presumably) from home. Looks AI is going to even put the webcam girls out of business.
> Looks AI is going to even put the webcam girls out of business.
I think camgirls will survive because the interaction with their audience is part of the appeal - there is a parasocial aspect to it.
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#15This is one more inevitable step in machine generated images.
My main objection to this site is that the prime example, “Mindy”, definitely does not look like “a girl next door” but rather looks like a model or like someone with near-perfect body measurements. The latter is not what people understand by “girl next door”. It’s more like “my dream girl next door” for some boys and men.
I’m sure there’s a “market” for machine generated images of “girl next door” and “boy next door”, but this one is not it (as of yet). The other image sets on this site are too small to judge anything.
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#16It's a real pity. People/mostly women do actually make a living from images like this. They do it safely (presumably) from home. Looks AI is going to even put the webcam girls out of business.
My neighbors are cam girls. They spend all day in their backyard diddling themselves. On weekends they have mud wrestling in their kiddie pool, and occasionally rent a bouncy castle.
Honestly, they're young and I think it's great they make money by partying, but it wouldn't be terrible if they had to find a new career path before they turn 30. And it wouldn't be a great loss to society if selling your body suddenly stopped being more lucrative than selling your mind.
That being said, as the OP stated, this won't replace camming. Because people pay for cam girls to have a sense of power. Overheard in my yard recently: two girls from this crew discussing a guy who wanted them to insert real vegetables into themselves. Which they rejected due to health concerns. And offered to buy silicone vegetables. The cam-man apparently didn't want that so they were discussing how much to charge him for putting themselves at risk of infection. That guy, whoever he is, won't be happy with an AI girlfriend.
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#17It's a real pity. People/mostly women do actually make a living from images like this. They do it safely (presumably) from home. Looks AI is going to even put the webcam girls out of business.
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#18I keep seeing AI people shoot themselves in the foot with the risible "animations" that are a static pic with the mouth morphing like a deliberately bad flash cartoon would do. After marvelling at still images that are indistinguishable from reality, how could seeing a 2000s morph of one called a moving image not be pure bathos? Why don't you stop? Know your limits!
There's an interesting push-down effect to all this. The trajectory seems to be that people on the social spectrum between super-rich and offline luddites will end up being reclusive, socially stunted incels, hooked on more and more artificial porn from an earlier and earlier age.
This is kind of interesting as a modern correction to the, uh, "overproduction of elites". I'm not sure it's any better or less likely to bite us in the ass than was, e.g. sending the second son off to a crusade or a monastery.
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#20I think the thing that scares me a lot more is dreamstudio. One can take a few pictures from social media of someone and turn them into a porn artist. It’s not perfect but getting a lot better each iteration.
Wasn’t there a news article that a teacher lost a job over it.