The Pornocalypse Comes For Your Geese
When I coined my now-infamous maxim that the pornocalypse comes for us all, it was a decade ago, and if prompted-AI generative art was a thing in some deep research lab, I certainly didn’t know of it. But now, today, it most certainly is a thing, and its masters and owners emphatically do not want you making porn with it. This menacing message is said to be from the Midjourney generative art tool:
For as long as I’ve been on the pornocalypse beat, I’ve noticed a trend away from the classic pornocalypse (welcome porn users during early stages of a service, then dump them in a bid for respectability at a financial inflection point) towards baked-in pornocalypse: the service has porn-hostile terms of service from its inception.
Meanwhile, I extend a standing invitation: if you, my beloved readers, learn of any publicly-accessible generative-art tools that aren’t crippled by anti-porn “features” and filters, please make sure to let me know of them. That would be ErosBlog fodder for sure.
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It is probably too late, but please don’t encourage them.
These are copycat con artists in intelligent clothing. There is no intelligence, it is just an algorithm and these are not producing real art.
So-called AI should be making human life easier, healthier and longer, not corrupting our culture with 16 finger monstrosities from an abyss of uncomprehending mutation of real human art and chatbots learning how to make “friends” with lonely vulnerable people so they can be fleeced of all their money more easily.
This is simply Capitalism finding ways to monetise human interaction by replacing it with fake Turing-test-trained calculation. People are already trying to pass off their fakery to literary and artistic outlets who don’t want this crap. The dating sites are probably filling up with almost convincing bots already.
Hug, that part of the conversation is way outside my editorial remit, although I follow those debates with interest. “Real art” is not a phrase that means anything to me, but I have spent my entire life immersed in ideas (mostly raunchy ones) that cannot have visual expression because I don’t have the resources or the skills to make it happen. Art it may not be, but if a robot can be taught to make pornographic illustrations at my command (which it clearly can) that’s a part of the fully automated luxury gay space communism utopian vision and I do not take kindly of being deprived of it because some Silicon valley techbros have decided it might embarrass them during their attempted sprint to to billionaire status.
If you download and install Stable Diffusion on your computer, it no longer has any filters. One place is https://github.com/cmdr2/stable-diffusion-ui. You can then download a custom model that has been trained for specific styles and types of content. One is here: https://civitai.com/. This site also has some good examples of AI-created adult content.
Stable Diffusion. It’s open source. The company website Dreambooth.com does block “NSFW” results. However the open source nature means there are many distributions that do not. These can be run locally on your own computer though it does require a decent GPU. Many of the distributions run on Google Colab or other cloud based GPU rental sites for those without GPUs.
Stable Diffusion generates the images based on models. There are many models already being trained on adult images and especially anime. I know of one at least group, Unstable Diffusion developing a full porn model, it wouldn’t surprise me if there are more. Civitai.com has hundreds of models for download, many NSFW.
Animations are possible, though still… not great.
Tools for posing are starting to be released.
Give it a year and you will probably be able to generate an okay porn movie based on your own script. Something might be possible now, I’m only following the animation side peripherally.
Discord and Reddit communities have tons of information on the tool, and the adult side.
Best of all, the open source nature plus the ability to run locally means the user has control. I’m not going to claim it’s impossible for the apocalypse to come for this, but it would be very difficult when anyone with a gaming PC can run Stable Diffusion offline (once downloaded).
Thank you, Some Guy. This stuff advances at incredible speed; the last time I looked, Stable Diffusion required a powerful Unix-based server environment, which is beyond me.
Thanks, Craig. I have a computer upgrade that’s overdue and then I’ll be trying this. Like I told Some Guy, it was just a few months ago that I spent a day going through all the publicly-available packages and there wasn’t anything then that would run on a consumer-grade desktop environment, or indeed anywhere other than on powerful servers.
The “AI” development moves fast. Stable diffusion took me by surprise when it was announced, but I’ve been having a lot of fun going down the rabbit hole since.
The best advice I’d give is to get a Nvidia GPU. I have an AMD Radeon 6900xt, but getting it to work well has involved relearning Linux. Nvidia works on Windows with easy installation, like the one Some Guy linked to.
VRAM can be as important as power, which makes the Nvidia 12gb 3060 the most cost effective GPU for SD. That said, the more high end GPUs create images faster.
Automatic1111 is the Swiss Army knife of SD distribution. It updates constantly and has an extension framework. Many of the tutorials are based around it too. https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
Enjoy your new hobby :-)
I’m going to have to resource this one a bit better before I dive down the rabbit hole — my current computer has an AMD Radeon R5 graphics chip from 2015, so yeah, this is not the box for doing that. But your specific hardware recommendations are very helpful. My first CPU was a 6502 but it’s been a very very long time (probably 2005?) since the last time I felt the need to buy a decent graphics card instead of getting by with whatever schlock was integrated on the motherboard.
I’ve had up to 20 blogs for the past 5 years, and never had a problem until a few months ago, when dumb-ass Google Blogger began slapping a 2nd “sensitive content” warning on about a dozen of my posts. (My blogs were already behind the “adult content” warning.)
None of those posts were particularly offensive, when compared to other stuff I[ve seen on the internet (or even some of my other blog entries).
They have also outright unpublished one of my posts, which had NO PHOTOS at all, but was merely a list of my blog views and an explanation to my readers that I was cutting back on most of my blogs.
There is a wonderful image manipulation programme called GIMP, easy to learn and you can make collages, etc. very quickly. You can become an artist rather than an artist’s manager.
http://www.gimp....org
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