ChatGPT relaxes prohibitions on sex and "gore" generations while maintaining guardrails.
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ChatGPT can now write erotica as OpenAI eases up on AI paternalism
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It is curious that LLM's are really only useful for making deepfakes and porn, much like cryptocurrency is only useful for drug deals and ransomware. Both are slurping up all the electricity. Progress, I guess.
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Our main hope for literature to remain a creative human endeavor is that there is an uncanny valley in writing. For now. The longer the text the more that it shows.
Its not that AI writing is just bad, with modern models and fine-tuning its not even "human-levels of bad" but there are still some patterns that read AI-generated.
Similar to how some corporate-speak always reads as corporate-speak (you can visualize the meeting doing this by committee, but it may be created by an individual self-editorializing to feel the same)
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Question: in the modern era, is there really that much difference between SATA and SAS disks for bulk storage anymore? I remember SCSI always claimed the mantle of "more reliable" but I've seen so many bulk storage servers using cheaper SATA disks and wonder if it's worth doing SAS for a home server?
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Dedicated local hardware is always going to be more expensive than shared remote. When it comes down to the cost we all pay, at least.
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The X-rated version would be "Transformers: Robots in These Guys". The dialogue would contain the phrase "more than meets the eye".
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I'm not sure that the above use case is much helped by the addition of barely-restrained horniness:
"ChatGPT, please summarise this police statement."
- "The person being interrogated flushed, lips slightly parted as the officer began his questioning..."
"Oh, goddamnit."
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If it's anything like generative imagery, it's going to get interesting.
"Joan held his hand, feeling his fingers enmeshed in hers, those seven digits caressing her hand gently. Without warning, he picked her up and threw her on the bed, face down, nuzzling the back of her neck, kissing the parted lips that lie there. He then climbed upon her, one leg to her left, one to her right, and the other braced against the headboard."
"Joan held his hand, feeling his fingers enmeshed in hers, those seven digits caressing her hand gently. Without warning, he picked her up and threw her on the bed, face down, nuzzling the back of her neck, kissing the parted lips that lie there. He then climbed upon her, one leg to her left, one to her right, and the other braced against the headboard."
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For the latter, I'm imagining a sock puppet bursting out of the chest of an adult, who then sing a duet about numbers, while kids joining in for the chorus.
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I'm going to disagree with that on a single adjective - it's our main hope for literature to remain a profitable creative human endeavour.
Whether generative software improves or not, whether any technology whatsoever makes their hobbies obsolete, people will always write (and draw, and whatever) just for the fun of it.
No, this possible future won't help those currently earning their living in creative fields, but at least creativity itself will never die until humanity does.
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You know what they say about assumptions? Yeah.
It's becoming and industry on it's own. And it's not important to have author selling to individuals, it's companies providing ability to create their own "private" companion with which they can talk about everything. Yep. Everything.
All things considered OpenAI is late to this game and they have realized they want also that piece of cake because there is a bunch of other solutions anyway. I was also hoping this would stay just a niche because HuggingFace models and AI Reddits show you it's not best obsession to have, imho of course. It does seem to be a huge motivator for people to improve LLM models, for better or for worse.
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Mmmm.. Slop-like porn.
On one hand that sounds so wrong, on the other...
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Gotta say, a few AI streamers/side kicks seem pretty damn funny.
I literally lolled a few times watching Can twitch chat beat AI in geoguessr
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You'll find yourself reading about what kinds of nasty stuff can be done with seventeen fingers and three sets of teeth
ETA: I see now Marlor_AU had a more creative version of this basic idea; good on them!
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Well, I've been told porn has usually been the driver of new media, so I do have to wonder why LLMs would be any different.
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Yes, numbers particularly still seem to be a problem, even small ones. If I ask for three kittens in an image I typically get two or four, and asking for the railway mileage between two towns gave a result that was about half the straight line distance.
The porn's going to have a lot of extra mouths, limbs and genitals popping up, probably in surprising places, which will likely be a turn off for 99% of users (but a real turn on for the remaining 1%).
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And.... and.... and... (?!)
This is why I love Ars. Come for the articles, stay for the comments.
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To my very limited knowledge, SAS still allows daisy chaining like SCSI did, in terms of transfer rates, I’d only be guessing.
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almost too hot to the touch, the m.2 drive felt hard yet fragile in her curious hand.
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Now that you mention it, is there "AI Maternalism?"
ME> Sydney, tell me a joke.
SYDNEY> Okay, but first, are you sleeping enough? You seem a little tired.
ME> I'm fine, now, can I have a joke?
SYDNEY> Dear, you really should get out more and stop spending so much time on the computer.
ME> I think I'll talk with Dad.
CLAUDE> Are there grandkids yet?
ME> Sydney, tell me a joke.
SYDNEY> Okay, but first, are you sleeping enough? You seem a little tired.
ME> I'm fine, now, can I have a joke?
SYDNEY> Dear, you really should get out more and stop spending so much time on the computer.
ME> I think I'll talk with Dad.
CLAUDE> Are there grandkids yet?
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99% of written erotica online is very bad, so on the one hand the bar is low. On the other hand, it's probably going to become 99.999% of written erotica online being very bad.
But in the future, I could see a system where you feed/train an AI on all of your favorite erotica and books and pictures and videos and then use prompts to get something novel enough that it might be arousing? Not sure how long that will take though.
But in the future, I could see a system where you feed/train an AI on all of your favorite erotica and books and pictures and videos and then use prompts to get something novel enough that it might be arousing? Not sure how long that will take though.
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So all that righteous anti-porn blathering from the religious right back in the day is all good now... because, uh, Trump, and AI! Right! 
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write something in the style of William Shakespeare
What, with my tongue in your tail?"
What, with my tongue in your tail?"
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Writing (on an alt, for obvious reasons) as someone who does write erotica/kink for money (though like someone mentioned upthread, not as my primary source of income), this doesn't have me particularly worried.
It does remind me of a time me and a few other writers/artists hucked a bunch of our stuff into NovelAI when the generative AI craze was first taking out and having a good laugh about the results.
As someone mentioned, an awful lot of what's out there is bad, and easy access to AI-generated slop is going to make that proportion marginally higher than it already is. But people who are willing to pay for specific and tailored stories were already going to be a more picky bunch to begin with, and they're going to be extra disinclined to read stories that "spoil the mood" with implausible anatomy.
I certainly haven't noticed any impact to my business, but in fairness I've never been operating at demand level due to health reasons so it's possible that the demand curve has ah, softened.
It does remind me of a time me and a few other writers/artists hucked a bunch of our stuff into NovelAI when the generative AI craze was first taking out and having a good laugh about the results.
As someone mentioned, an awful lot of what's out there is bad, and easy access to AI-generated slop is going to make that proportion marginally higher than it already is. But people who are willing to pay for specific and tailored stories were already going to be a more picky bunch to begin with, and they're going to be extra disinclined to read stories that "spoil the mood" with implausible anatomy.
I certainly haven't noticed any impact to my business, but in fairness I've never been operating at demand level due to health reasons so it's possible that the demand curve has ah, softened.
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No AI chat should be able to output sensitive personal data because it should never have seen any.
For that we already have a ton of resources, don't we? Especially the first one isn't difficult to find at all.
I'm not sure if the "how to" applied to that - if it does - well, there are tons of books about influencing people and none of them are deemed too hazardous. As for generating manipulative content - I certainly agree, but I'm not sure how enforceable it is without outright banning any political criticism.
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Be it text, images, or videos. Creating and consuming generative content like this is mental masturbation. It's fine when done for the right reasons but as with social media, the quick reward may be ripe for exploiting people's addictions.
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SAS is a better protocol than SATA but that’s been massively improved upon by NVMe. SAS disks are also usually double bussed so redundant controllers can be connected to them but it’s overkill for most use cases. There’s usually multiple lanes of SAS in cables as well so you can parallelize out of the HBA into an enclosure but again, why at home unless you get one cheap.
If I could get a reasonably priced SAS enclosure I have access to tons of SAS disks (spinning and SSD) in my line of work. It just wouldn’t run Synology (unless I buy theirs for a fortune) so it would end up an other home science project that I don’t want to do anymore. [Unless it’s instructional for my career like screwing around with containers or RAGs recently.]
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