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> but I can't fathom why Facebook would want to be in the porn bot business

Why wouldn't they?

People are going to spend a lot of time with their "AI companions", especially once they can talk and get animated avatars.

That may be incredibly sad and will drive people even more into isolation, but it is inevitable.

Meta is all about capturing the users time and attention, so getting into that market early is smart for them.

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Also imagine the data they can harvest. Porn is the gateway drug to make people use them as emotional support, telling them secrets they might never tell on the open internet. Imagine the ad targeting opportunities

Will actually open more ad opportunities of marketing more private contents and detecting preferences at higher level. This data will also of course cater to more advertising money from questionable industries, which in the end goes to Facebook coffer and they can shrug saying, they only provide a platform, whatever people are buying or clicking is whatever people want, otherwise they wouldn't be clicking those ads.

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