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ChatGPT's porn rollout raises concerns over safety and ethics

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32 pointsharitha-j13 comments

It seems like if ChatGPT had literally any other way to turn a profit, they would have done it before resorting to this. Kind of fees like this is their last ditch effort to show investors that they can somehow become profitable.

Same. If chatgpt actually could do what they claim, would they be wanking (heh) around with erotica and job boards, or would they be selling $5k/mo subscriptions that replace junior employees? The answer is obvious.

Sex is not like other subjects, it is peculiarly liable to harm, obsess, distract us. Sexual content is uniquely powerful in its ability to reduce human beings to objects for use, and having the ability to generate endless amounts of it completely privately is a very dangerous power to have. I worry about what it will do to us to have this technology, and I worry that OpenAI is treating this subject with too little concern.

> Sexual content is uniquely powerful in its ability to reduce human beings to objects for use

Incorrect. The modern industrial revolution and most wartime militaries demonstrate far more ability to do this.

> and having the ability to generate endless amounts of it completely privately is a very dangerous power to have.

I mean, anyone can pick up some artistic skill and do this without a computer. Everyone really can have this "very dangerous power" if they want to. Your statement is only valid if sex or pictures/text of sex is intrinsically harmful, which is untrue.

why do we insist on bringing the worst tech from sci-fi to reality? is our collective intelligence still not enough to thwart the social and market dynamics?

line must go up

$$$$

No, our collective intelligence is not smarter than our base instincts and biological reward systems.

> our collective intelligence

Come on, we are a race that took no less than 2,000 years (!) to realize the seat of thought lies in the brain and not in the heart, counting from when a prominent figure first hypothesized it (Alcmaeon of Croton).

Are they creating God or are they creating an ad serving porn machine?

I don’t see how the answer can be both.

Moloch!

personally, I would prefer to miss out on ai-powered degeneracy, if the price is that ai companies will forever store all the stuff i generated, attached to my name

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