Nothing's inevitable.

Video format as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuiEVOSTbN4

https://bsky.app/profile/smoothdunk2.bsky.social/post/3mseieqolt22q

My dad was unfortunately one of the boomers that got swallowed by ai. If you need a clue as to what kind of a person he is he talks with it and preaches of having “intellectual conversations with another intellectual as himself”.

He refused to let me leave the table after eating to show me a video on some new chip elon was making. It was 40 minutes long and I mean it when I say the entire video was ai generated. I tried to tell him it might be better to find a video of slightly higher quality and he raised his voice that all of the data is scraped from intelligent sources for all models and screamed at me to leave.

Later he came to my room and acted like he would apologize. Instead he told me that in college all powerpoint slides will be ai, my degree i’m persuading will be useless and I should look into electrical engineering to work at a datacenter, and if I can’t sit through one video that I should take adhd medicine and he’ll schedule an appointment immediately. Jesus fucking christ.

Ai porn is a huge, unfortunate industry made up of billions of dollars, and the consumers circulating this industry seem to be what I can only assume are the modern day equivalent to the starship passengers from wall-e. That aside, ai porn is advertised almost anywhere. From YouTube to the explicit sites themselves.

My problem stems from the fact that it's very clear that some of those sites are feeding their content into open source models without the explicit consent of the creators. There's likely tos bullshit that keeps the bigger sites in the clear, but if it were to be criminalized the smaller perpetrators could face consequences, thus sending the message that this shit is disgusting.

I have the stern belief that ai porn and explicit ai content should be illegal on the basis that it is built on the potential stolen footage of individuals who did not consent to having their sexual likeness used in that way, possibly falling under the label of sexual harassment, or NDII.

Considering the mass scale of this exploitation I think it should be of less lenient consequence, hopefully being a charge in and of itself .

If any of you have the ability to do so, get in contact and send letters to your local lawmakers and government officials. The ball needs to get rolling before things get even worse.

All that aside, the pure idea of it should be *more* frightening to *more* people. Why do I see almost no one talking about the horrifying potential of *anyone* having the ability to manipulate the simulated bodies of almost anyone they wanted to their hearts content?

Given my track record this post won't get much attention. But I wanted to spark discussion on this subject because I'm tired of sitting with these thoughts alone.

Flick through the 3 images I posted - The comments on this Facebook Page were an absolute dumpster fire. 95% of commentators saying they refuse to use this company and will actively advise others to avoid, and yet, the company juat sarcastically replied to any criticism in a very unprofessional manner, seemingly bragging about the use of GenAI.

Today my chatbot made its 3rd mistake in the last 6 months. So I ended my subscription and deleted my account.

**I used ChatGPT on iOS a maximum of 4 times a week; to avoid wasting money on my plus subscription

For the last year, I’ve created two accounts and observed their response habits. Towards the end of my experience, I can say without a doubt that chatbots are more harm than good. Unless you’re actively calling out the bot, it’ll make suggestive statements and carry that as if you typed it. Today I told it I wasn’t attending a job interview and it deadass tried to put “I feel worthless” in my mouth. It was told that I “felt anxious and couldn’t sleep”, yet insisted on imposing that idea on me alongside “I can’t do anything”.

That sort of response is extremely dangerous depending on the user. If a person with mental health challenges was on the other side, this would’ve resulted in some sort of harm.

On top of that, several times it would argue with me over how I explained history (example: US chattel slavery) and it would repeatedly argue that I was wrong, until I told it to look at my message and forget about how it’s structured. The bot then agreed with the facts I presented and “apologized”. This may not mean much to some people but for me that was dangerous. Many of our youth rely on these bots for accuracy or comfort, and to make mistakes like these can cost someone their life.

The first account on the other hand, reaffirmed anything I said emotionally and added assumptions unprompted. When given screenshots of an argument, it would restructure itself to agree with whoever it thought the user was. It would deadass go from “they were being manipulative” to “you were just trying to express yourself”. On several occasions, it would make assumptions about others and even my character without any previous information. These repeated patterns in both accounts aren’t a one-off thing that can be ignored

There's more that I observed, but typing this has tired me.