• Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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    2711 months ago

    VHS was chosen over Betamax because of porn.

    Bluray was chosen over HD-DVD because of porn.

    Streaming video got figured out because of porn.

    Porn drives technology forward.

      • @ilikecoffee
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        411 months ago

        Risky click of the day (kinda)…

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      1111 months ago

      Hmm… could a substantial percentage of the population develop a fetish for curing cancer during our lifetime? That would be awesome.

      • @meliaesc
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        411 months ago

        We usually call them scientists or researchers, but yes…

    • @Aggravationstation
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      211 months ago

      Can’t track it down now but I remember reading that the adoption of the printing press happened so quickly because demand for a certain collection of erotic stories was super high and it made printing ridiculously profitable. Porn again.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      i’ve heard the first one but not the second two. you wouldn’t by any chance have sources for those would you?

  • Stamets
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    2611 months ago

    I will never cease being amazed that the only reason Blender (and other 3D rendering stuff) got as good as they did on average PCs is because so many people found Overwatch characters hot and wanted porn of them.

    I will also never cease being grateful that they did so in order to let me enjoy some awful stuff of Chris Redfield and Mr. X.

  • @[email protected]
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    1611 months ago

    That’s a very naive view on the capability of AI. AI is very good at recognizing and recreating patterns. It can help to detect cancer but cure it not so much

    • Ekky
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      1111 months ago

      Don’t we also use AI to fold proteins and make new medicines such as antibiotics? If not, then we should probably see if we could.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        True. I have heard of AI protein folding and that’s used as a tool for understanding metabolism and making new medicine. Antibiotics not such much I think but I would happily stand corrected.

        My point is, it’s not the one solution that fixes everything but a tool that’s already applied where it can be. I’m not even sure that’s a point at all since OP’s post is obviously a hyperbole and more about “we use this very potent technology for porn”. Don’t take my first comment as a disagreement but rather as a FYI or whatever.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      That’s a very pessimistic view on the capability of AI. It is already assisting in creating vaccines and other medicine. It can certainly help find the cure for cancer.

      Edit: I saw this right after commenting

      https://lemmy.world/post/9798191

    • @[email protected]B
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      311 months ago

      Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

      CAT VIDEOS

      Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

      I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

  • @[email protected]
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    If it’s good enough for porn, it’s good enough for curing diseases 👍… but first 🍆 😁.

    • @LwL
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      411 months ago

      Image AI is being used to generate tons of porn.

      Human horniness can be a great driver for innovation, really.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      Creating new porn images by teaching an AI/learning model what existing ones look like, or swapping faces on video as an example.

  • Dog
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    -411 months ago

    AI is not the future.