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Porn has driven many tech advances. I predict that models trained on specific porn genres will appear as soon as training a good model is doable for under $5000. They’ll get here much quicker if we get video to that mark first.


You could probably already get people to pay for a subscription to generate images. Wouldn't be surprised if someone is already working on it.


The entire NovelAI drama had already demonstrated this.


What tech advances would those be?


print magazine, cinema, VHS, Internet


How much did porn actually contribute to innovation in any of those though?


Let me ask you this in reply:

Have you ever seen a non-porn DVD that had multiple camera angles (a feature defined in the standard DVD spec)?


And all it took was the ritual degradation and abuse of women.


> Porn has driven many tech advances.

This is an urban myth.


Yes and now. Yeah the VHS VS Beta situation was exaggerated, but you'll be surprised on how much on Netflix, and youtube UI tricks were stolen from innovation made in adult sites.

I'll even say that the high bandwidth push in the public was highly related to that. Even HTML5 video players, adult websites were faster to implement it than big streaming websites that still used flash or similar tech.


Which happens to be true.




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