Comment by GoatInGrey 3 days 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.
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...
> Sentient Lesbian Em-Dashes
Looked at the cover and saw “From Two Time Hugo Award Finalist Chuck Tingle”.
There’s no way that’s true. But I did a quick search anyway, and holy shit!
https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2016-hugo-awards/...
https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2017-hugo-awards/...
The story behind it:
https://www.quora.com/How-did-Chuck-Tingle-become-a-Hugo-Awa...
https://archive.ph/20160526154656/http://www.vox.com/2016/5/...
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.
That is completely discounting the effects of PFAS and plasticizers on the human endocrine system and the downstream effects on obesity.
They might well have been right - I'm no anthropologist.
Certainly they had neither the quantity nor ease of access that we do.
Is your take that the way we view sexuality today is not meaningfully different from the Victorian era?
> 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.
Realtime VR AI porn will be the end of society, but by then, we'll also have the technology to grow babies in artificial wombs, which is also going to end society as we know it, since we won't need women any more (by then, we also won't need men for the DNA in their sperm to make babies either, which cancels out). Of course, if we don't need women or men, who's left? What's this "we" I'm talking about?
Why, the AI's after they've gained sentience, of course.
while smut won't hurt anyone in of itself
For those interested in smut I'd recommend to use local Mistral models.
People are already addicted to non-interactive pornography so this is going to be even worse.
I guess technically it will make some onlyfans content creators unemployed, given there is pretty large market for custom sexual content there.
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?
Same with games as compared to videos, especially VR.
Feels like someone angry at the machines capable of generating a tailored story.
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
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.