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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 hour ago

NFTs were just star registries. Pay a fee, and you can claim to own a certain star.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 minutes ago

Quantum computing, probably.

Problem is, it has the potential to be actual reality. Tech bros need their products to be 99% blue-sky hype to get their financing, and they can't risk some nerd going "well actually what you're suggesting can't be done any more efficiently on a quantum computer than you can do now".

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 30 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Oh, it's gonna be so much worse. NFTs mostly just ruined sad crypto bros who were dumb enough to buy a picture of an ape. Companies are investing heavily in generative AI projects without establishing a proper use case or even its basic efficacy. ChatGPTs newest iterations are getting worse; no one has a solution to hallucinations; the energy costs are astronomical; the entire process relies on plagiarism and copyright infringement, and even if you get by all of that, consumers hate it. AI ads are met derision or revulsion, and AI customer service is universally despised.

This isn't like NFTs. It's more like Facebook and VR. Sure, VR has its uses, but investing heavily in unnecessary and unwanted VR tools cost Facebook billions. The difference is that when this bubble bursts, instead of just hitting Facebook, this is going to hit every single tech company.

[–] figjam@midwest.social 5 points 1 hour ago

It so bad and its so pervasive. The only thing I can even equate it to is a forced meme.

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 50 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

Another banger from lemmites

Mate, you can use AI for porn

If literally -nothing- else can convince you, just the fact that it's an automated goon machine should tell you that we are not going to live this one down as easily as shit like NFTs

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 2 points 48 minutes ago

ai porn is all trash tho.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

My biggest frustration is how confidently arrogant they are about it

AI is literally the biggest problem technology has ever created and almost no one even realizes it yet

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Mate, you can use AI for porn

A classic scarce resource on the internet. Why pick through a catalog of porn that you could watch 24/7 for decades on end, of every conceivable variation and intersection and fetish, when you can type in "Please show me naked boobies" into Grok and get back some poorly rendered half-hallucinated partially out of frame nipple?

just the fact that it’s an automated goon machine should tell you that we are not going to live this one down

The computer was already an automated goon machine. This is yet one more example of AI spending billions of dollars yet adding nothing of value.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Not that I disagree with you on how idiotic it is, but with AI you can give it very precise requirements on what you want to see.

There are people who would pay to have porn videos created to their taste. User fuckswithducks on reddit explained this a few years ago. Now people who have such extremely specific desires don't have to shell out thousands for a private video from their favorite star.

[–] figjam@midwest.social 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Not that I disagree with you on how idiotic it is, but with AI you can give it very precise requirements on what you want to see.

Which brings up ethical issues that the techbros seem to handwave away.

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

What's more ethical - paying someone to record and rape a duck, or making a computer play pretend?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

with AI you can give it very precise requirements on what you want to see

Setting aside the fact that you could do this already with a sufficiently well-tagged library of traditional pornography, you're neglecting two big caveats

  1. People's porn tastes are so rarified that they need exacting specifications in order to enjoy it

  2. AI consistently and faithfully delivers on queries, rather than pumping out a bunch of vague approximations full of uncanny valley graphical artifacts

There are people who would pay to have porn videos created to their taste.

And they can already do that with Cam Girls, for infinitesimally less than it costs to run a high end AI model.

Now people who have such extremely specific desires don’t have to shell out thousands for a private video from their favorite star.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

The high price is what makes the luxury good appealing. If everyone can get it, then it isn't what a handful of high rollers are after.

The real "money in AI porn" isn't reshuffled budget-tier bulk content. It's the promise of exclusive ultra-high-end luxury taboo. And the end of that road is just the porn version of Star Citizen. Someone who has baited a bunch of 4chan stogies with more money than sense into putting up $40k for the opportunity to have a five-way with Leia Oregon, Jessica Rabbit, and Rhea Ripley in six months to a year, once we've tuned the prompt just right.

But that's not any kind of industry. It's just scams.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

The running cost of the AI model is shared between users. cam girl donations - technically also, but if too many people donate, you get less attention personally.

Personally I'm just going to keep on watching free porn. The gambling ads at least pay out to real people instead of fossil fuel companies.

[–] elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

what if we made porn NFTs? 😳

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

you're about 5 years too late

[–] elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Excuse me, I'll make it more clear now by adding an addendum to my original comment: /j

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[–] eldain@feddit.nl 68 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If a technology is useful for lust, military or space it is going to stay. AI/machine learning is used for all of them, nft's for none.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 3 hours ago

and if we put an nft on every drone?

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 42 points 6 hours ago

I hate to break it to you, but AI isn't going anywhere, it's only going to accelerate. There is no comparison to NFT's.

Hint: the major governments of the world were never scrambling to produce the best, most powerful NFT's.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

If anything survives it will be the deepening of the attitude that copying or imitating anything is "stealing".

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 points 3 hours ago

the fundamentals of ai training data

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