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Ah, yes the fabled Horny Text Markup Language.

Now, if you recall that whole hullabaloo where Hollywood was split into schisms, some studios backing Blu-ray Disc, others backing HD DVD. Now, whichever format porno backs is usually the one that becomes the most successful.

• Kevin Sandusky, Burma, ~1960

I doubt that OpenAI themselves will do so, but I am absolutely confident that someone not only will be banging on this, but I suspect that they probably have already. In fact, IIRC from an earlier discussion, someone already was selling sex dolls with said integration, and I doubt that they were including local parallel compute hardware for it.

kagis

I don't think that this is the one I remember, but doesn't really matter; I'm sure that there's a whole industry working on it.

https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3298783/chinese-sex-doll-maker-sees-jump-2025-sales-ai-boosts-adult-toys-user-experience

Chinese sex doll maker sees jump in 2025 sales as AI boosts adult toys’ user experience

The LLM-powered dolls are expected to cost from US$100 to US$200 more than existing versions, which are currently sold between US$1,500 and US$2,000.

WMDoll – based in Zhongshan, a city in southern Guangdong province – embeds the company’s latest MetaBox series with an AI module, which is connected to cloud computing services hosted on data centres across various markets where the LLMs process the information from each toy.

According to the company, it has adopted several open-source LLMs, including Meta Platforms’ Llama AI models, which can be fine-tuned and deployed anywhere.

You haven't seen the newest Flux/Qwen/Wan workflows, much less all the new video models coming out.

Perfect, no, but porn is one of those industries where 'good enough' is good enough for most, when combined with convenience. See: potato quality porn sites that still get tons on visitors

It's just all locked behind 'enthusiast' tooling and hardware now, but that won't last long.

most AI generated content that tries to look real ends up quite uncanny

I think that a lot of people who say this have looked at a combination of material produced by early models and operated by humans who haven't spent time adapting to any limitations that can't be addressed on the software side. And, yeah, they had limitations ("generative AI can't do fingers!") but those have rapidly been getting ironed out.

I remember posting one of the first images I generated with Flux to a community here, a jaguar lying next to a white cat. This was me just playing around. I wouldn't have been able to tell you that it wasn't a photograph. And that was some time back, and I'm not a full-time user, professionally-aimed at trying to make use of the stuff.

kagis

Yeah, here we are.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/27441182

"Cats"

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/b97e6455-2c37-4343-bdc4-5907e26b1b5d.png

I could not distinguish between that and a photograph. It doesn't have the kind of artifacts that I could identify. At the time, I was shocked, because I hadn't realized that the Flux people had been doing the kind of computer vision processing on their images as part of the training process required to do that kind of lighting work at generation time. That's using a model that's over a year old

forever, at the rate things are changing

from a non-expert on just local hardware, and was just a first-pass, not a "generate 100 and pick the best", or something that had any tweaking involved.

Flux was not especially amenable, as diffusion models go, to the generation of pornography last I looked, but I am quite certain that there will be photography-oriented and real-video oriented models that will be very much aimed at pornography.

And that was done with the limited resources available in the past. There is now a lot of capital going towards advancing the field, and a lot of scale coming.

As if we didn't already have more than enough pornographic material on all the hard drives worldwide for training. There's nothing new to come in the image material from this industry, porn is infinite repetitions.

Except these AI models need data to train on, they cannot improve without an industry to leach off of.

Not anymore.

The new trend in ML is training on synthetic data, alongside more refined sets of curated data.

And, honeslty the open base models we have now are 'good enough' with some finetuning, and maybe QAT.

Maybe there's a crossover point where it becomes fantasy?

I'm playing devil's advocate here. But I do feel like hyper-reality and animation and robots could be easier to psychologically separate from real like than 'real' film or camgirls or whatever. Especially if the curtain is pulled back, and all their knobs are exposed.

At... low points in my life, I've used locally run LLMs as sounding boards in lieu of family or whatever, so this is where I'm coming from. Even mentally compromised, all the technical setup/troubleshooting and knobs makes it obvious I'm talking to a tool, not a grounded person. I feel a lot of AI would be healthier if presented that way, including the inevitable pornbots, instead of as the living oracle black boxes Tech Bros (and their apps) like to paint them as.

Goonerbook.

If we let them then yes.

The point was it was Meta, not OpenAI, so why is Altman doing this instead of the Zucc?