The AI-generated porn industry
Not to change drastically from the subject matter of the original article, but I think really the most troubling thing to me listed here is how willing many men are to interacting with openly fake AI accounts on these apps. And this is not meant at all to mock these men, I&#x27;m genuinely concerned for the welfare of the kind of man who is so deprived and isolated of attention that he&#x27;s ready to swipe his credit card for an AI-powered chat-bot with generated titties to tell him it loves him. It makes me think of all the Replika users who got (somewhat rightfully I feel) pissed off when they paywalled erotic&#x2F;romantic engagement. Again, not judgement. Pity. I feel bad for these people who are so without any kind of social connections and&#x2F;or the ability to get them that chat bots feel like their only options.<p>There are so many social sicknesses here that technical and market solutions are attempting to band-aid and it&#x27;s genuinely depressing.<p>Also as an aside, using real people&#x27;s faces for deepfake pornography should be prosecuted just like any other kind of sexual assault with similar consequences. That shit is disgusting and I will not respond to any comment saying otherwise, I don&#x27;t care if you didn&#x27;t actually touch her, or whatever excuse you have on offer. You have created exploitative material of a sexual nature without consent, that&#x27;s assault, period, paragraph.