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Raiderkev, rok temu do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

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

Omega_Haxors, rok temu

Whose to say they aren’t doing that on the side?

Omega_Haxors, rok temu do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

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

DestroyerOfWorlds, rok temu do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

explain this to a person in 1998

foo, rok temu

Imagine collecting the smartest people on the planet from 100 years ago and explaining this.

makingStuffForFun, rok temu do gaming w 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.

Demdaru, rok temu

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.

melpomenesclevage, rok temu

pretty sure they didn’t.

catloaf, rok temu

BOINC came out 21 years ago, so it wouldn’t be that unreasonable.

gap_betweenus, rok temu do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

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.

frightful_hobgoblin, rok temu

I love the industry tbh

gap_betweenus, rok temu

I enjoy the product, but the industry is pretty fucked.

frightful_hobgoblin, rok temu

I’m the inverse; I find the product boring but the industry is mad fun.

redcalcium, rok temu do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

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

Someonelol, rok temu

Porning@home

petersr, rok temu

Can we at least see it?

nucleative, rok temu

This… This was inevitable.

fidodo, rok temu

“Selling” it for digital copies of images and some variable tweaks

cygon, rok temu do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

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, rok temu

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

Paradachshund, rok temu do games w World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to 'let Blizzard be Blizzard,' but I'm not sure that's entirely true

And also what does that mean?

ThePowerOfGeek, rok temu

A toxic workplace, almost no customer support, and plenty of micro-transactions?

Anticorp, rok temu

It means they’re okay with Blizzard launching expansions on maintenance day, so that nobody can actually play until the day after the game is released.

Mango, rok temu do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

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

melpomenesclevage, rok temu

and the kids are getting the traditional art! would not have called it.

Flyberius, rok temu do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

I remember when GPUs were used to fold proteins…

Snowyday, rok temu

I wore an onion on my belt

SturgiesYrFase, rok temu

As was the fashion at the time

ColeSloth, rok temu do games w World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to 'let Blizzard be Blizzard,' but I'm not sure that's entirely true

Article didn’t really have any purpose to it.

Gemini24601, rok temu do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

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

DudeDudenson, rok temu

I’d rather have a wealth of new porn around rather than thousands random Blockchains going around.

At least the porn will probably be useful for someone long term haha

CliveRosfield, rok temu do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

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 💀

frightful_hobgoblin, rok temu do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

Capitalism breeds innovation

yukichigai, rok temu

Welp

SSJ2Marx, rok temu do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

wow. Imagine burning out your expensive GPU for a fortnite skin.