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What I learned from building an AI that generates porn (medium.com/davidmack)
12 points by stared on April 2, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


"Reflecting on my earlier experience of trying to share the project, it felt like I’d struck a corner of hypocrisy in our society and technology — pornography is a major part of internet usage and people’s daily lives, yet we’re not comfortable talking about it. Here was a fledgling technology that could improve the situation, but we moderate and bury it."

-> see e.g. "Ten indispensable technologies built by the pornography industry" (2011) http://www.enterprisefeatures.com/ten-indispensable-technolo... and "Does Porn Make Men Bad at Sex?" (2016) https://medium.com/@SexCoachSarah/porn-a-convenient-scapegoa...




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