I don't have enough expertise to have a strong opinion either way, but I know that Anton Howes thinks coal exploitation led to increased deforestation, not the other way around:

> It’s also wrong to say that Britain exploited coal and invented the steam engine because of deforestation. The evidence is overwhelmingly in favour of greater coal use being demand-led (eg from London growth) and cause of deforestation (will write more on this soon)

https://twitter.com/antonhowes/status/1542488372966465543

Okay yeah I might have to add Tlaloc!

How about you write it? I'd be curious to read it.

I've been wondering about that. It seems clear to me that in general, human-made art will survive AI art, in part due to things like status and the need for connection to other people though art... But these things are absolutely not what people want for most sex content. In fact if you can be confident that there's no human behind some porn thing it might feel better and less shameful. Add to this that AI will be able to cater to people's preferences far better, and provide an even greater variety of content, and yeah I don't really see how the adult industry really survives outside of some niche cases.

It’s all trained on real images, it can’t exist without the industry.

Yeah, what anigbrowl said. I mean there surely will be some form of adult industry to have generative models specifically made for (various kinds of) porn, and those companies might spend some resources creating new data to improve their models, but I doubt most current generic porn will be very valuable a few years from now.

It's not like there's a shortage of existing raw material.

I think as models advance and develop more multi-modal networks and doing inferences, developing an understanding of anatomy etc., there aren't really any limits to what will be imaginable.

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