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Comment by GoatInGrey

17 hours ago

Pornographic use has long been the "break glass in case of emergency" for the LLM labs when it comes to finances.

My personal opinion is that while smut won't hurt anyone in of itself, LLM smut will have weird and generally negative consequences. As it will be crafted specifically for you on top of the intermittent reinforcement component of LLM generation.

While this is a valid take, I feel compelled to point out Chuck Tingle.

The sheer amount and variety of smut books (just books) is vastly larger than anyone wants to realize. We passed the mark decades ago where there is smut available for any and every taste. Like, to the point that even LLMs are going to take a long time to put a dent in the smut market. Humans have been making smut for longer than we've had writing.

But again I don't think you're wrong, but the scale of the problem is way distorted.

  • That’s all simple one way consumption though. I suspect the effect on people is very different when it’s interactive in the way an LLM can be that we’ve never had to recon with before.

    That’s where the danger may lie.

    • You could commission smut of whatever type you want for quite a while. And many people do so. Even customised smut is not new. It's just going to get a bit cheaper and automated.

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    • Alien 1: "How did the earthlings lose control of their own planet?"

      Alien 2: "AI generated porn"

  • I want smut that talks about agent based development and crawdbot to do dirty dirty things.

    Does that exist yet. I don't think so.

  • i've always wondered how much the increasing prevalence of smut & not so niche romance novels, that have proliferated since e-readers became mainstream, have had on Gen Z and younger's sometimes unrealistic view/expectations of relationship. A lot of time is spent on porn sites etc. but not so much on how mainstream some of these novels have become

  • > The sheer amount and variety of smut books (just books) is vastly larger than anyone wants to realize. We passed the mark decades ago where there is smut available for any and every taste.

    It's important to note that the vast majority of such books are written for a female audience, though.

Whatever reward-center path is short-circuiting in 0.0001% of the population and leading to LLM psychosis will become a nuclear bomb for them if we get the sex drive involved too.

I guess technically it will make some onlyfans content creators unemployed, given there is pretty large market for custom sexual content there.

    while smut won't hurt anyone in of itself

"Legacy Smut" is well known to cause many kinds of harm to many kind of people, from the participants to the consumers.

I can do as much smut as I want through the API for all SOTA models.

  • true, but:

    1. you have to "jailbreak" the model first anyway, which is what's easier to do over API

    2. is average layman aware of the concept of "API"? no, unlikely. apps and web portals are more convenient, which is going to lower the bar to access LLM porn

    • Well and trust the data isn't going anywhere.

      I trust none of the llm groups to be safe with my data , erp with a machine is going to leave some nasty breadcrumbs for some future folks i bet.

Why llm smut in particular? There's already a vast landscape of the interactive, VR games for all tastes.

Why LLM is supposed to be worse?

I can already see our made to order, LLM generated, VR/neurolink powered, sex fantasies come to life. Throw in the synced Optimus sex robots…

I can see why Elons making the switch from cars. We certainly won’t be driving much

I'm waiting until someone combines LLMs with a humanoid robot and a realdoll. That will have a lot of consequences.