The Coming Age of Super Entertainment and Super Porn
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The Coming Age of Super Entertainment and Super Porn
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#2Author here. Thanks for reading. I've been thinking about this for a long time. I used to work at Snapchat where a lot of the talking points were still centered around the "Social Dilemma".
As I've transitioned to working on AI, I think the average person doesn't understand how there's a gigantic underbelly that's just purely dedicated to pornographic use – whether that's in erotic roleplaying with LLMs, or generating pornographic images with diffusion models. It's massive, but largely not talked about and remains out of view.
From my experience, when you go from text to image, it's basically an order of magnitude change in the dopamine response.
When you go from image to video, it's essentially another order of magnitude.
What I'm trying to say is... I don't think we're ready for what's to come...
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#3None of that sounds appealing in any way. I’m not too concerned about it. Who wants to spend 12 hours a day in a AI-generated VR haze? That sounds completely and utterly miserable. Anyone on that trajectory probably won’t live very long anyway. I’m sure there’s some minority who does, but I have a hard time believing it will be a majority to the point it becomes a crisis.
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#4I suspect this is "right" but with a wildly optimistic timeline.
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#5Author here. Thanks for reading. I've been thinking about this for a long time. I used to work at Snapchat where a lot of the talking points were still centered around the "Social Dilemma". As I've transitioned to working on AI, I think the average person doesn't understand how there's a gigantic underbelly that's just purely dedicated to pornographic use – whether that's in erotic roleplaying with LLMs, or generatin…
There use to be a saying like “no internet technology can be considered a success until it’s adopted by the porn industry”.
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#6I suspect this is "right" but with a wildly optimistic timeline.
Yeah you might be right. I typically am a lot more bull than my other colleagues lol. I don't think I'm far off though. I might be several years off, but definitely not 10s of years IMO
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#7I tried to read this, but it feels like another attempt at the “AI 2027” meme where we’re only a couple years away from societal collapse due to AI.
I just can’t take any of these projections seriously when they make claims like that in less than 2 years there will be an AI video streaming service that delivers a perfect custom version of the video to everyone and, as a result, nobody is is going to watch a perfectly executed human film production made in the same year.
Or that in 2.5 years we’ll have perfect holodecks in every home, precipitating a global crisis in society as people are addicted to their AI holodecks.
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#8Author here. Thanks for reading. I've been thinking about this for a long time. I used to work at Snapchat where a lot of the talking points were still centered around the "Social Dilemma". As I've transitioned to working on AI, I think the average person doesn't understand how there's a gigantic underbelly that's just purely dedicated to pornographic use – whether that's in erotic roleplaying with LLMs, or generatin…
But a plethora of freely available, porn in every flavour already exists. In full HD video, even in full 8k VR. Whatever addiction epidemic that AI brings to porn, already exists, and doesn’t seem provably that damaging. Further, porn has a kind of cap for males, you can really only engage with it so often..with diminishing returns. It is nothing like gambling, drugs or alcohol.
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#9None of that sounds appealing in any way. I’m not too concerned about it. Who wants to spend 12 hours a day in a AI-generated VR haze? That sounds completely and utterly miserable. Anyone on that trajectory probably won’t live very long anyway. I’m sure there’s some minority who does, but I have a hard time believing it will be a majority to the point it becomes a crisis.
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#10This "Coming Age" already happened, we're living in it. "The First Wave" was social media (or perhaps Google)? "The Infinite Stream" vaguely resembles TikTok: endless curated video, albeit TikTok is all short snippets and you occasionally swipe.