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[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will never cease being amazed that the only reason Blender (and other 3D rendering stuff) got as good as they did on average PCs is because so many people found Overwatch characters hot and wanted porn of them.

I will also never cease being grateful that they did so in order to let me enjoy some awful stuff of Chris Redfield and Mr. X.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any good blender tutorials specifically covering such topics?

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's a very naive view on the capability of AI. AI is very good at recognizing and recreating patterns. It can help to detect cancer but cure it not so much

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't we also use AI to fold proteins and make new medicines such as antibiotics? If not, then we should probably see if we could.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

True. I have heard of AI protein folding and that's used as a tool for understanding metabolism and making new medicine. Antibiotics not such much I think but I would happily stand corrected.

My point is, it's not the one solution that fixes everything but a tool that's already applied where it can be. I'm not even sure that's a point at all since OP's post is obviously a hyperbole and more about "we use this very potent technology for porn". Don't take my first comment as a disagreement but rather as a FYI or whatever.

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also conveniently ignores that different people can do different things. While one person is using it for porn another is cataloging genetic sequences AI creates from non-carbon organisms.

It can always be both!

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Citation needed for non carbon organisms but otherwise yes

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately I was just joking.

But also, can you really source a guy in his basement doing genetic sequencing? Not... Not really...

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's a very pessimistic view on the capability of AI. It is already assisting in creating vaccines and other medicine. It can certainly help find the cure for cancer.

Edit: I saw this right after commenting

https://lemmy.world/post/9798191

[–] CJOtheReal@ani.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everything is used for porn but that doesn't mean everything else is impossible because of that...

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If it's good enough for porn, it's good enough for curing diseases 👍... but first 🍆 😁.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe it will drive privacy forward... (Likely not)

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] LwL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Image AI is being used to generate tons of porn.

Human horniness can be a great driver for innovation, really.

[–] pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Creating new porn images by teaching an AI/learning model what existing ones look like, or swapping faces on video as an example.

[–] dog_@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

AI is not the future.