You would think they would do this to mine Bitcoin too.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2024
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If I'm reading this right, it's a program that users sign up for to donate their processing power (and can opt in or out of adult content), which is then used by client companies to generate their own users' content? It even says that Salad can't view or moderate the images, so what exactly are they doing wrong besides providing service to potentially questionable companies? It makes as much sense as blaming Nvidia or Microsoft, am I missing something?
so what exactly are they doing wrong besides providing service to potentially questionable companies?
Well I think that is the main point of what is wrong. I think the big question is whether the mature content toggle is on by default or not. The company says it's off, but some users said otherwise. Dunno why the author didn't install it and check.
They said they did.
However, by default the software settings opt users into generating adult content. An option exists to "configure workload types manually" which enables users to uncheck the "Adult Content Workloads" option (via 404 media), however this is easily missed in the setup process, which I duly tested for myself to confirm.
Honestly, and I'm not saying I support what's being done here, the way I see it if you're tech savvy enough to be interested in using a program like this you should be looking through all of the options properly anyway. If users don't care what they're doing and are only interested in the rewards that's kind of on them.
I just think the article is focused on the wrong company, Salad is selling a tool that is being potentially misused by users of their client's service. I can certainly see why that can be a problem, but based on the information given in the article I don't think it's really theirs. If that's ALL Salad's used for then that's a different story.
It's Roblox stuff you can buy, it's not power users that are the target demographic
Ah thanks I think I forgot that sentence by the end of the article and thought it was just a user report that it was checked by default. I really don't think that it should be checked by default, depending on where you are it could even get you in trouble. App setup for this kind of stuff isn't necessarily only for power users now, it has gotten very streamlined and tested for conversion.
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I don't get the hate for AI porn.
On its own, it's just the same as hate for porn. But there's also deep fake porn, ai porn of real people, and that's potentially far more problematic.
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Porn will be one of the first applied "arts" completely replaced by AI (including onlyfans like pseudo social interactions), which is great since in general it's a rather horrible industry.
I love the industry tbh
Great. Now we're trading pre-made traditional artwork to kids in exchange for fresh robot porn!
and the kids are getting the traditional art! would not have called it.
I remember when GPUs were used to fold proteins...
I wore an onion on my belt
As was the fashion at the time
So... this AI company gets gaming teens to "donate" their computing power, rather than pay for render farms / GPU clouds?
And then oblivious parents pay the power bills, effectively covering the computing costs of the AI porn company?
Sounds completely ethical to me /s.
No no, they're getting copies of digital images out of it. It's a totally fair trade!
So, it's like folding@home, but instead of donating your spare compute to science, you sell it to generate porn?
"Selling" it for digital copies of images and some variable tweaks
This... This was inevitable.
Can we at least see it?
Porning@home