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Re:A Failed AI Girlfriend Product, and My Lessons by FeepingCreature on Thursday November 16, 2023 @05:40AM (#38287935)
> Who were they doing this for?

VISA probably. Card processing is weirdly puritanical.

Re:A Failed AI Girlfriend Product, and My Lessons by papa-whisky on Thursday November 16, 2023 @05:46AM (#38287971)
I've read that payment processors don't like dealing with porn companies because of the very high rate of chargebacks they attract, not because the processors are Puritans...
Re:A Failed AI Girlfriend Product, and My Lessons by ReactiveJelly on Thursday November 16, 2023 @05:47PM (#38296748)
If that were the case, and it was B2B where pricing tiers are more acceptable, would they not simply have a "porno tax"?
Re:A Failed AI Girlfriend Product, and My Lessons by anthony100 on Thursday November 16, 2023 @11:25AM (#38291537)
Interesting. Not sure how this is different from Onlyfans and lots of money is going there.
Re:A Failed AI Girlfriend Product, and My Lessons by numpad0 on Thursday November 16, 2023 @02:50PM (#38294504)
VISA/Mastercard goes after those as well. ebooks too. Penalizing short people, forcing verbiage changes, etc.
Re:A Failed AI Girlfriend Product, and My Lessons by mensetmanusman on Thursday November 16, 2023 @03:38PM (#38295105)
They want chatgpt in schools to own the next gen of workers.
Re:A Failed AI Girlfriend Product, and My Lessons by ReactiveJelly on Thursday November 16, 2023 @05:47PM (#38296737)
"Hook 'em while they're young, like the tobacco industry. God, I wish we had their numbers." -- Cardinal Glick, _Dogma_, accidentally explaining Apple's outbound marketing model, later copied by Microsoft and Google.