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I don't doubt this is true. OnlyFans exists basically as a way of having a pretend [girl|boy]friend. You can find porn of basically any demographic you want o

I don't doubt this is true. OnlyFans exists basically as a way of having a pretend [girl|boy]friend. You can find porn of basically any demographic you want on the internet in about ten second with any popular search engine. If your goal is just to see porn, you can do that for free (or with a cheaper all-encompassing subscription to some kind of MindGeek service). I think people pay for OnlyFans for the more parasocial aspects of it. As chatbots get better and better at mimicking human dialog, I think it'll become pretty easy to fake the parasocial aspects of this stuff. At that point, having the pretend girlfriend becomes a decidedly cheaper process, and maybe arguably more ethical? At least with the AI chatbot, there's not a person being sexually objectified because they need to pay rent next month.

RetroTechie 3y ago
> At least with the AI chatbot, there's not a person being sexually objectified because they need to pay rent next month. Not sure that's a good thing. For some people, AI powered buddies will be a perfect training ground for all kinds of abusive behaviour. Because "it's a machine, no one gets hurt, right?". Over time this will only help to blur the lines concerning acceptable behaviour towards others (with others = any group that includes humans).
- tombert 3y ago
  I mean, that's one possibility, but does evidence actually indicate that's true? I play Grand Theft Auto like an utter psychopath and I don't go around running people over in my free time. I'll acknowledge it's not an apples to apples comparison, because it's much harder to view the characters in GTA like real people, they are still pretty obviously cartoon characters, but these are the arguments people made when violent video games started getting popular in the 90's, despite the fact that the violent crime rate has gone down pretty consistently since the 90's. So I don't know, it's possible I guess?
mnk47 3y ago
>at least with the AI chatbot, there's not a person being sexually objectified because they need to pay rent next month. I would love to be sexually objectified for a living if I had the looks and the bravery to put myself out there. AI is, once again, representing a threat to some of fulfilling and competitive careers.
- tombert 3y ago
  I am sure some love it, and to be clear I am not suggesting we make it illegal or anything, but I suspect a lot of the people on Onlyfans don’t really love getting messages from horny dudes every day. I wouldn’t know, I am not an Onlyfans model, it’s just a hunch I have.

RetroTechie 3y ago

> At least with the AI chatbot, there's not a person being sexually objectified because they need to pay rent next month. Not sure that's a good thing. For some people, AI powered buddies will be a perfect training ground for all kinds of abusive behaviour. Because "it's a machine, no one gets hurt, right?". Over time this will only help to blur the lines concerning acceptable behaviour towards others (with others = any group that includes humans).

tombert 3y ago
I mean, that's one possibility, but does evidence actually indicate that's true? I play Grand Theft Auto like an utter psychopath and I don't go around running people over in my free time. I'll acknowledge it's not an apples to apples comparison, because it's much harder to view the characters in GTA like real people, they are still pretty obviously cartoon characters, but these are the arguments people made when violent video games started getting popular in the 90's, despite the fact that the violent crime rate has gone down pretty consistently since the 90's. So I don't know, it's possible I guess?

mnk47 3y ago

>at least with the AI chatbot, there's not a person being sexually objectified because they need to pay rent next month. I would love to be sexually objectified for a living if I had the looks and the bravery to put myself out there. AI is, once again, representing a threat to some of fulfilling and competitive careers.

tombert 3y ago
I am sure some love it, and to be clear I am not suggesting we make it illegal or anything, but I suspect a lot of the people on Onlyfans don’t really love getting messages from horny dudes every day. I wouldn’t know, I am not an Onlyfans model, it’s just a hunch I have.