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White House calls for legislation to stop Taylor Swift AI fakes

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[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

People here are forgetting there is an entire industry full of models and actors (and producers and studios etc) whose sole purpose is to create nude images for money.

The porn industry. You know, the one that basically decides how we all consume media. This type of problem that Swift is having well be an enormous issue for porn.

It has to be stopped. It's not just about one popular celebrity.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You know, the one that basically decides how we all consume media.

Huh?

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Porn decided VHS was the standard back in the day.
PlayStation decided DVD was afterwards.
And so and so forth

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well no, I don't think porn "decided" that. Beta was better quality, but more expensive and not "better" enough to warrant it for most home consumers. Sony also marketed it poorly, and capped beta tapes at 1hr.

Sure the porn industry sold home tapes, but they didn't sell them on VHS because "you'll use a VCR and like it by god," they sold them on VHS because most home video consumers had VCRs due to them being cheaper than beta machines/tapes. Easier to sell them a VHS tape for their VCR than to convince them they should have bought the beta machine.

CDs won over cassettes and carts because they are better, they sound better than tapes and (at the time it was believed) they last forever, and they could fit more on them than contemporary carts. They physically take up less space than the (video) cassettes too, which mattered in the days of shelving (instead of HDDs). It wasn't just because nintendo said "nah fam we like carts" and sony said "we like the shiny bagel," the consumer also liked the shiny bagel.

Now people have stopped buying disks and soon disks will stop being sold in favor of download/streaming only, this isn't because some shadowy they've "decided," it's because the people have decided not to pick up physical copies of disks anymore.

[–] aaaa@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For the record, the biggest reason vhs beat Betamax was the same thing Sony has struggled with in later years.

They chose to keep the media format proprietary, while JVC opened the VHS format for any company to make. That's how VHS became more ubiquitous, and it's a similar story as to why minidisc never became mainstream, and memory sticks are gone.

Which arguably falls under "marketed poorly", but I think the added context helps

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes that indeed does help, thanks. I should have mentioned that explicitly.

[–] jaschen@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who is actually getting hurt here?

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Your brain was at an early age.

[–] jaschen@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah, I'm close to 50 and remembered a time when people had rights. Freedom to do what we want without government intervention. Hey, what I do in my own home does not concern you.

Nobody is physically getting hurt here.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Being a moron at 50 doesn't negate having brain damage at an early age. You can't possibly be this ignorant. There are more ways to be hurt than physically.

[–] jaschen@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh we are calling names now. My apologies for thinking you were mature.

Please explain this moron. Besides physically, how would AI porn hurt someone?

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can very easily read the many many comments in this post for that information. But you won't, and you'll just ignore everything like you have been.

[–] jaschen@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago

Seems ironic that you call me a moron and can't even come up with your own argument without other people's comments. Do you even have your own opinions?

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Do you realize that this sequence of comments from you is a demonstration of the fact that you have no reasoned position on this topic?