AI using AI for misrepresentations fits my very low opinion of them.
I mean, I'm all for effective altruism, for giving money to charities the charities that help the most people with it with the lowest overhead, and for doing your research before deciding who you donate to (I recommend GiveWell as a starting point); but "hiring PR agents to solicit donations" is hardly unique to Amnesty.
> 2021 was a record-breaking year with a total fundraising income of €357m.
And
> The largest proportion of the movement’s programme expenditure €26.4m (35%) was spent towards Goal One.
And
> 45% of total income spent on Human rights research, advocacy, campaigning, raising awareness and education
So ~20% (75m of 357m) was actually spent on real work, assuming everything reached end beneficiaries.
Interesting way of showing 45% of expenditure clubbing multiple heads, while showing 2% expenditure on "Maintaining our democratic system of governance".
Among other things, it sounds like their income was higher than their expenditures, eg that they had some money left at the end of the year; so your "75m of 375m" ratio isn't quite right.
Maybe I missed something.
And even 20% is probably very high, because I would guess people working on those would be paid some salary/ honorarium, and that also would be included in this expense.
It’s already happening with the writers guild…
Porn already, for 95%+ of performers, pays terribly. Maybe one or two grand at best per "job" due to rampant piracy, ad-blocking, and the fact that nobody wants it on their credit card statement, and not everyone wants to figure out Bitcoin.
They hardly have the capital to start a union, or pay dues. But if AI porn takes off, those earnings will turn porn into purely a "because you want to" business. Probably not a bad thing considering the exploitative aspect in my opinion.
Even with Identity Verification, there's always the risk that someone will be trafficked, verified as a performer, and then later escape their trafficker, file a lawsuit, and win/achieve a settlement. Which has (allegedly) happened multiple times, at least with pending lawsuits.
What's safer than Identity Verification? AI-generated porn. Completely "ethically" sourced, with no humans involved to potentially get hurt. Infinite variety, instantly customizable to everyone's own preferences, and (theoretically) truly endless in style and form. Also, it kills one of the biggest secular arguments against porn: "If nobody could possibly be trafficked or underage, what's the problem again, outside of your religious arguments?"
The moment it really hits the fan, I expect MindGeek would immediately adopt it. They can't bear the idea of losing market share to some competing app with such features. More variety and lower risk? They never cared about their "performers" before, they are a liability that is currently just a cost of doing business. But if they aren't required for the business, they'll be dropped like a hot potato. Assuming porn companies would be concerned about morality is a mistake by any definition.
I would not be surprised, at all, if 10-20 years from now, the only porn on PornHub is a back catalog of AI-generated porn; with a subscription available for generating new porn to your preferences. After all, there is perhaps nothing that has more visual training data available for developing an AI against than porn.
> The moment it really hits the fan, I expect MindGeek would immediately adopt it. They can't bear the idea of losing market share to some competing app with such features.
MindGeek would just buyout said company. MindGeek has practically a monopoly on porn and porn sites.
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