Each of these reads like an extremely horny and angry man yelling their basest desires at Pornhub’s search function.

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    They’re probably losing money now and just trying to build a user base as a first-mover. They accept donations and subscriptions with fairly minor benefits, but I imagine hosting and serving sizable AI models is not cheap.

    They’ll probably have to transition to paid access at some point, but I don’t see it as particularly unethical as they have bills to pay and do attempt to moderate content on the site.

    I tend to agree generating adult content of real people is unethical, but probably less so than how a lot of real porn is made. I don’t think there should be open avenues for sharing that kind of stuff online, and their rules should be better enforced.

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      I tend to agree generating adult content of real people is unethical, but probably less so than how a lot of real porn is made.

      Well, even if that were the case, the “real porn” is still required to train the model in the first place.

      So, it’s unethical shit on top of what you think was even more unethical.

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        Sure, and “impossible” meat wouldn’t have existed if people weren’t already eating actual meat. But it’s a better alternative. Porn is not going anywhere. If generative AI means less real people get exploited that’s a win in my book.