And now I feel like I need to take a shower. Ugh.
    • Demdaru@lemmy.world
      341·
      7 months ago

      God that would sound so dystopian and futuristic…but to be honest, most articles about AI today would sound like that back then. Damn people would freak out about privacy.

  • cygon@lemmy.world
    551·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • fidodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      7 months ago

      No no, they’re getting copies of digital images out of it. It’s a totally fair trade!

  • PDFuego@lemmy.world
    29·
    7 months ago

    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?

    • fidodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      so what exactly are they doing wrong besides providing service to potentially questionable companies?

      Well I think that is the main point of what is wrong. I think the big question is whether the mature content toggle is on by default or not. The company says it’s off, but some users said otherwise. Dunno why the author didn’t install it and check.

      • PDFuego@lemmy.world
        4·
        7 months ago

        They said they did.

        However, by default the software settings opt users into generating adult content. An option exists to “configure workload types manually” which enables users to uncheck the “Adult Content Workloads” option (via 404 media), however this is easily missed in the setup process, which I duly tested for myself to confirm.

        Honestly, and I’m not saying I support what’s being done here, the way I see it if you’re tech savvy enough to be interested in using a program like this you should be looking through all of the options properly anyway. If users don’t care what they’re doing and are only interested in the rewards that’s kind of on them.

        I just think the article is focused on the wrong company, Salad is selling a tool that is being potentially misused by users of their client’s service. I can certainly see why that can be a problem, but based on the information given in the article I don’t think it’s really theirs. If that’s ALL Salad’s used for then that’s a different story.

        • fidodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          Ah thanks I think I forgot that sentence by the end of the article and thought it was just a user report that it was checked by default. I really don’t think that it should be checked by default, depending on where you are it could even get you in trouble. App setup for this kind of stuff isn’t necessarily only for power users now, it has gotten very streamlined and tested for conversion.

  • Mango@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 months ago

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

  • CliveRosfield@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    7 months ago

    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 💀

  • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    7 months ago

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

  • gap_betweenus@lemmy.world
    46·
    7 months ago

    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.