> First off, what if the content you want to see is simply real stuff that other people are doing? Luscious perfect breasts can likely be generated by ML easily

> First off, what if the content you want to see is simply real stuff that other people are doing? Luscious perfect breasts can likely be generated by ML easily, but a spicy bikini photo of a woman I happen to know personally would easily draw my attention more. Maybe you can fool me by generating such an image, but eventually I’ll only feel any stimulation if I know the image is actually real. If we've never met in the real world, how would you ever know "I" wasn't real? ML models will eventually be able to generate effectively-perfect images, video content, voices, etc. People are hooking LLMs up to all sorts of APIs, ML models have demonstrated capability to learn things like gameplay before, etc. We already saw how many people genuinely got attached to Replika and freaked out. What happens when it's effectively impossible to tell it apart from a real human short of meeting it? What happens if we go to the VR-heavy future where it doesn't matter? > Same goes for text, I don’t give a damn about some GPT generated essay but I will read something someone I know wrote with greater interest. What if you don't know the difference? If I effectively prompt an LLM with "write X in the style of one of HN user xwdv's friends" and send it to you saying it was written by them, and don't tell you it's from an LLM, then you implicitly trust me that it's real. You don't have to know that it's real, you just have to believe it's real. The same general context applies to snuff films etc.; they're shocking because you believe it's an actual, real human. > So as long as people value content made by humans, ML won’t have much to offer besides shallow, empty stimulus. Like watching some random porn and jacking off into oblivion, most people would still rather have actual sex with someone. Real human connection is important, I agree! But we keep building all this technology to minimise direct human-to-human contact and interaction and creativity, and then wonder why everyone's miserable.