An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

Imagine reading that headline 20 years ago.

So, it's like folding@home, but instead of donating your spare compute to science, you sell it to generate porn?

So... this AI company gets gaming teens to "donate" their computing power, rather than pay for render farms / GPU clouds?

And then oblivious parents pay the power bills, effectively covering the computing costs of the AI porn company?

Sounds completely ethical to me /s.

I’ll be a minority voice considering the other comments. But maybe just pay for onlyfans or whatever you guys use. I’m a generally attractive woman (I can surmise from interactions while trying to date) and I really don’t like the idea that my likeness would be used for something like this. Get your jollies off, but try and be a bit consensual about it. Is that so much to ask?

Capitalism breeds innovation

This feels exploitative AF on multiple levels.

If I'm reading this right, it's a program that users sign up for to donate their processing power (and can opt in or out of adult content), which is then used by client companies to generate their own users' content? It even says that Salad can't view or moderate the images, so what exactly are they doing wrong besides providing service to potentially questionable companies? It makes as much sense as blaming Nvidia or Microsoft, am I missing something?

explain this to a person in 1998

I kinda fail to see the problem. The GPU owner doesn't see what workload they are processing. The pr0n company is willing to pay for GPU power. The GPU owner wants to earn money with his hardware. There's a demand, there's an offer, nobody is getting hurt (ai pr0n is not illegal, at least for now) so let people what they want to do

Great. Now we're trading pre-made traditional artwork to kids in exchange for fresh robot porn!

You would think they would do this to mine Bitcoin too.

Boring Dystopia

What? Seems like porn generation is the new crypto mining.

Meanwhile, BOINC is right there, with far more useful work for your idle GPU to do.

I don't get the hate for AI porn.

100% that porn is not legal. It's also pretty easy to tell which demographic they're targeting with this.

Eh I agree with the reasonable takes here. Nothing wrong with generating that sort of stuff until it starts resembling the likeliness of a real living person. Then I think it’s just creepy; especially if for some reason you are sharing it 💀

Explain modern "innovation" in one sentence:

Porn will be one of the first applied "arts" completely replaced by AI (including onlyfans like pseudo social interactions), which is great since in general it's a rather horrible industry.

This shit is tight. I signed up. I consume porn I might as well help them make it