Comment by estimator7292
16 hours ago
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.
You couldn't talk to commissioned smut. Of course you could request changes etc. but the feedback loop was nowhere close to what you can get with AI. Interactivity is a very big deal.
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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.
Best I can do is [1] Sentient Lesbian Em-Dashes and [2] An AI hallucination made real for now.
The man's probably thinking something up though. "Pounded in the butt by Microslop Agentic Studio 2026" has a ring.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Sentient-Lesbian-Em-Dash-Punctuation-... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Last-Algorithm-Pounded-Claimed-Sun-Ti...
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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
They had similar wonderings in the Victorian era, and probably in the Roman empire and ancient Greece too.
Yes, human nature hasn't changed but there is a reason why only recently obesity epidemic has developed.
Cheap unlimited access to stuff that was always scarce during human evolution creates an 'evolutionary mismatch' where unlimited access to stuff bypasses our lack of natural satiety mechanisms.
They might well have been right - I'm no anthropologist.
Certainly they had neither the quantity nor ease of access that we do.
But you don’t think there are big differences?
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Is your take that the way we view sexuality today is not meaningfully different from the Victorian era?
Have you ever stopped to realize that, from the Victorian’s point of view, they have been proven completely right about what would happen if ladies started showing their ankles?
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> 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.