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I don't necessarily support banning it, but I don't think it's been all positives from how easy to access adult content has become over the years.
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Was it ever hard? Even pre internet some friend of a friend would supply magazines.
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Yes, the friction has been a lot lower, and that builds different habits. You can reach a lot of stuff with the click of a button, sometimes even accidentally on social media such as X or Reddit. Given that we have video tech now, that's also likely much more alluring than images.
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Are there children on X? Adult ads on subreddits for children? If so that's a platform issue.

I honestly believe not much has changed. There have been many many "weird" fetish producers out there to fulfill almost any fantasy. Now people can make it up themself more easily and waste less time and money on actually weird sites. Not to mention less scam risk, less money into porn credit card providers, ... Nothing bad about it, except you make it bad but that's the users choice and always was.

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Frankly, I don't think the main concern is children. A lot of adults don't have good impulse control, and we should build systems that disincentivize harmful behavior. I'm more worried about someone doomscrolling fetish subreddits today than having to contact sketchy businesses back in the day, because of the hurdle they had to get over.

I think consuming sex content is akin to most time-wasting we can do on the internet today, and that'd be my main concern.

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Yeah I find it really creepy how obsessed people like altman are at preventing users from having any sort of adult conversation. It's like living under shariah law.

Why does it matter if people want the chatbot to write sex stories? Who does that harm? It's not immoral or illegal. These same people are fine with going to the island, but ask a chatbot about sex and they'll hang you in the square.

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> These same people are fine with going to the island, but ask a chatbot about sex and they'll hang you in the square

That's the most understandable read of it, they're giant hypocrites. Sam is beholden to the government, and the U.S. posture is to be as involved in the sex life of its citizens as much as it can, feigning prudishness, while politicians cheat on their pregnant wives with prostitutes.

The fact that we are bringing back abstinence programs when the very people against abortion also disapprove of contraception just shows what a sexually stupid country we are.

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"It's like living under shariah law". You're having sex with a robot bro. People are going to find you weird.
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You're not really helping answer the core question here: Why must subjective "weirdness" be censored? Who cares if it's "weird"? People are allowed to be weird, regardless of your personal feelings about it.

When we normalize corporations deciding in what ways we are allowed to be "weird", we just accept corporations forcing us into conformity with whatever they happen to consider "normal", and so far these companies don't have a great track record of drawing that line.

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It seems like a bad way to get ai psychosis from personifying a LLM too hard. Keep your roleplay organic and find some friendly partners maybe
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Do you actually think gooning is such a intense thing that people are going to personify AI more than what they do already everyday with Gemini and ChatGPT?
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After all those people with chatgpt boyfriends, I think maybe yeah? any long term roleplay chat is going to tend towards that.
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That is a separate, very niche, issue tho. Character.ai and most similar products aren't made for long term relationships, rather short term fun. Like one time throwaway experiences.
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As if it's hard to find people, especially perverts, to roleplay with online if that's what you really want to do...
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Did you ever try? The internet is full of spam, scam and and whatever else. You can easily waste a lot of time and money to find a play partner just to get disappointed.

Why not just pay $20 to a proper company and make up whatever you want to fap to and proceed with more productive stuff after that?

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Seems like the perfect tool for people with bad social anxiety and insecurity, and least that's my guess.
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