what's the problem with that? we have erotic texts dating back thousands of years, basically as old as the act of writing itself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_2461
There's nothing wrong with it, but you have to understand the differences between different user groups to know which limitations are relevant to your own use cases. "It doesn't follow instructions" could mean "it won't pretend to be a horny elf" or "it hallucinates fields outside the JSON schema I specified"; the latter is much more of a problem for my uses.
I have no problem with it and I can understand why people don't want to say "I'm trying to pornify this model and it refuses to talk dirty!" in public. But if you're calling a model garbage maybe you should be honest about what the "problem" is.
The pro-porn side has zero PR because respectable public figures don't see pro-porn advocacy as a good career move. At most, you'll get some oblique references to it.
Meanwhile, the anti-porn side has a formidable alliance:
Right-wing, religiously-motivated anti-porn activists. Left-wing, feminism-motivated anti-porn activists. Big corporate types with lots of $$$$ to spend who want their customer support chatbot to be completely SFW at all times. AI safety folk who think keeping the model on a tight leash is an ethical obligation, lest future iterations take over the world. AI vendors who are keen on the yes-it-might-take-over-the-world narrative. AI vendors who just don't want their developers having to handle NSFW stuff in work. Politicians who don't know a transformer from a diffusion model, but who've heard a chorus of worries about lost jobs and AI bias and deepfakes and revenge porn.
These people will speak up in public at the drop of a hat.
on the other hand, Musk et al are building AI-powered thirst traps, like Grok's "Ani", or the accursed Replika bots (whose user base went on suicide watch when the company abruptly decided to digitally neuter their "companions.")
erotic roleplay, imo, is much less harmful than using LLMs as surrogate partners. porn and sex workers have existed for millenia. they're an outlet for sexual tension. they don't alleviate feeling lonely or provide an alternative to human companionship.
I'm worried we'll produce a generation of hikkikomoris, who eschew human connection for sycophantic machines that always listen and never breaks their heart.
The founding story of Replika (c.2016 ?) sounds like someone watched Black Mirror S2E02 (2013) and didn’t quite understand it was supposed to be dystopian.
Maybe you have a porn test suite for LLM’s? See which ones are fine with or capable of talking about specific topics? I believe there was something similar for willingness to discuss sciency stuff.
It's not pro-porn and anti-porn. It's pro-porn and people who just don't think this is that important an issue. The latter massively, MASSIVELY outweighs you guys.
If a person is configuring an LLM for education, to provide personalised math coaching to 10 year olds, they want an LLM that won't output anything NSFW, no matter how the user pokes and prods it. That's totally reasonable.
But if that person is applying AI safety techniques like concept erasure to remove the model's ability to output porn, is that not anti-porn in the most literal sense?
nickpsecurity's post is currently flagged so I can't reply directly, but I think it's important to clarify that traditional Christian sexual morality aims to maximize population growth. The full list of sexual sins includes one that nickpsecurity missed: sodomy. Sodomy traditionally includes oral sex. The only logical reason to ban oral sex within marriage is to encourage reproduction. Although the Bible does not explicitly forbid birth control, this interpretation is consistent with the demand to "be fruitful and multiply", and forbidding non-procreative sexual activity is mainstream Catholic doctrine.
We've staved off the Malthusian crisis so far, with the Green Revolution and the various social and technological changes that triggered the demographic transition, but evolution does not stop. We already see higher population growth in the highly religious, and religiosity is heritable, especially in adults. This study found 44% heritability for adult religiosity:
It would be a great mistake to assume that overpopulation is no longer a risk, and considering the role that religion plays in it I think traditional Christian sexual morality is a great threat to "stable, prosperous, and peaceful societies" in the long term.
(And even outside marriage oral sex is objectively safer than penetrative sex, although I can understand Christians rejecting the harm-reduction argument.)
There’s some wisdom in whatever version of the translation of a translation of a translation of a memory of an oral story that you’re reading and lazily thrusting at a bunch of tech bros and bots, but just as much distortion, manipulation, and human ability to misunderstand and oversimplify.
