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Comment by jsyang00 | Hacker News Reader

An OpenAI which allowed NSFW content literally could not exist. It would be shut down in under a week. Maybe possible under a different regulatory regime (France?) but even then I doubt it... any model developed by a company and offered as a product will have some censorship which gets baked in.

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Could you expand on why? There is a lot if NSFW content on Internet. What could be different, regulatory wise, this time?

Because current porn companies know the law, and toe the line if they want to stick around.

AI doesn’t. Image generators know what naked people look like, and they know what children look like. And they’re really good at mashing ideas together like that.

Text generators will happily compose any scenario for you.

I’m not here to argue ethics, but it’s easy to see why a nsfw open ai would immediately run into major problems.

I think I understand the problem you are pointing at. For example, children porn via AI? My question that is more epistemological and take aside ethics is if you can stop AI to produce those images when all the tools are available. I can compare this (not in ethics terms but in feasibility) to the US government push to control the information about how to make bombs or cryptography in the 90s. They couldn't but they can prosecute people who take advantage of this technologies to commit a crime. I don't know how this applies to people watching children porn that is produced by AI. Here I understand this is an ethics question that talks about the person consuming this and not the technology.

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