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Effort is the core of the problem, as it affects speed and access. Most of the tech industry is built on scaling things and expanding access by making them che

Effort is the core of the problem, as it affects speed and access. Most of the tech industry is built on scaling things and expanding access by making them cheaper. A government could pay 500 people to watch 500 cameras and look for someone, but cheap cameras and cheap storage to save weeks of footage and AI facial recognition raise societal problems even though by your definition no new capabilities were created.

creer 3y ago
Effort is the core of SOME problems - like you describe - and not the core of others. There is an audience for personality porn. It's probably a medium audience for "real photos and videos" smuggled or hacked out. It's probably a small audience for fan fic style. I doubt it will keep many artists fed, with generative AI or not. There is a tiny market for revenge porn - and it's already highly illegal. Does it change things that anyone can now create revenge porn out of the blue? Yes, a little - you still need someone to want to use revenge porn. Does it shake the foundation of our civilization? No. This is a problem that was raised at the beginning of anonymous remailers. Some people were very upset to be receiving death threats "enabled by that remailer" and seemed totally unconcerned that someone close to them was mad enough to send death threats. Talk about misplaced concern. There is a big market for high-bandwidth porn: videos and streams. And for now it seems to crave volume and freshness. Even then, for now that market seems to crave humanness, real actual performers - all the better if you can message them. So even there, not much threat - for now.