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Re:Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention o... by jiggawatts on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @05:43AM (#35800125)
Wait... what? You've invested half a million into AI porn? Seriously!?

I'm morbidly curious: how do you plan to recoup your costs? I assume porn is so trivial to get for free that it must be a relatively low profit industry...

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Re:Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention o... by echelon on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @08:58AM (#35801857)
No, I'm not building porn! (Not that there's anything wrong with those that are.) I conflated GenAI as a whole and I see how my post is interpreted now. My mistake.

I always think of the oft-quoted meme about porn being the canary in the coal mine for the adoption of new tech: film, VHS, usenet, web, P2P, Twitter/Tumblr/Reddit, streaming, VR, AI... I think the trend has held pretty well historically.

NovelAI, Civit, etc. are making a lot of money on it, and they're leading indicators of more expansive "SFW" use cases that will follow.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention o... by moneywoes on Friday May 05, 2023 @10:01AM (#35829297)
Are you hiring
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