No, this is not Friday arriving early. There is actually a serious point to this poast. The picture you see up top is from an Instathot who goes by the name of “Floriana Hazel”. She is, by all appearances, in that picture, at least, a lovely, radiant young woman.
She is also almost certainly an AI fake.
The speed with which AI technology is advancing, is genuinely shocking, even to someone like me, who uses it fairly regularly. While there is nothing especially intelligent about it – the background mathematics come down to tensor calculus and optimisation routines, running EXTREMELY fast on GIGANTIC datasets – the power of it is undeniable.
If you look at this particular e-thot, and you look back at its pictures from not all that long ago, you can see how fast things have developed.
The pictures from just a few weeks ago were VERY OBVIOUSLY AI deepfakes, and not just because of the ridiculous body proportions:
As you can see, the e-thot’s actual physical characteristics are wildly inconsistent. They make no sense whatsoever. They seem to violate all the laws of known physics.
The account’s most recent pictures, though, are rather better:
You could, at first glance, be forgiven for thinking those are from a real woman. And this is the reality of Instagram these days. Trying to figure out what is real, and what is fake, is immensely difficult nowadays.
This, for example, is a real woman (albeit with what I am pretty sure are enhanced airbags):
I know, because she featured in one of the Friday T&A segments from some years back.
But now, as LRFotS RobertW pointed out when he emailed me a couple of days back, even the tenuous line between fiction and reality that we can still observe, is rapidly becoming blurred.
He pointed me toward something called Lush AI, which is basically an AI generator that creates an e-thot avatar – and the AI chat functionality attached to it – all wrapped around a cryptocurrency token. The basic idea is to generate a hyper-realistic AI influenza that bridges the “uncanny valley”, and looks (and acts) every bit as realistic as a real woman:
Lush Chat early access begins in 1 week. Are you ready? pic.twitter.com/oXeUzwV1za
— Lush (@LushAIAgency) March 25, 2024
The times, they are a-changin’ – and pretty bloody fast, too.
Think of what this means, from an economic lens. The most important cachet, by far, that women hold over men, is their looks. It is their primary currency, and it devalues EXTREMELY fast. A woman needs to make the most of that currency, as quickly as she can.
Many – far too many – choose to do so through routes like OnlyFools, which allows them to take advantage of entire hordes of thirsty SIMPs stupid enough to pay them money for a “virtual girlfriend experience”. Here, for example, is Amouranth, one of the top creators on Twitch and OnlyFools – and, if you look at Ms Kaitlyn Siragusa from a few years back, she looked a hell of a lot better then than she does now.
In purely economic terms, that trade is extremely heavily weighted toward the woman. She has all the power. But now imagine what happens to an e-thot like Amouranth, when someone can come along and create a Lush AI model that looks, talks, moves, and… uh… jiggles exactly like she does – and uses a cryptocurrency token on a blockchain to monetise the interactions.
The economic value of that woman PLUMMETS overnight.
In economic terms, this is known as the “substitution effect”, and it can be extraordinarily powerful in the right contexts.
We are looking at a future of deepfakes, whether we like it or not – and I certainly do not. But we cannot deny the power of the technology. The applications go far beyond thottery, after all. This site, for instance, has probably in excess of 5 million words from nearly 12 years of publications. It would not be difficult for Ye Olde Didacte to feed that entire dataset into a large language model, train it to write and speak exactly the way I do, and then build an avatar on top of that, which mimics the face and movements of the HALO 4 Ur-Didact perfectly.
If it were not for copyright laws involved, and the famously litigious Microsoft Corporation, that might actually be an interesting route to take.
Consider what would happen to many white-collar professions. Consultancies around the world are laying off significant parts of their staffs, in no small part because there is no need for the armies of analysts that they once hired to do basic research. A seasoned and experienced consultant can now do better research than that, faster, and more easily, using a ChatGPT Teams subscription, than a grass-green analyst can – and the Teams subscription costs the same for 100 users, as a SINGLE analyst does.
I know personally of a highly knowledgeable and skilled professional at a consulting firm, who is thinking seriously about creating a digital avatar of himself, using one of these AI outfits. The idea is to feed it his own lexicon, through his writing and speech, then capture his voice and facial movements, and finally build an LLM-based GPT behind the scenes that will replicate his speaking style and knowledge base almost EXACTLY.
There are both great risks and great opportunities with this technology. For young men everywhere, we are likely to see a bifurcation of the sexual and marriage market places. Low-status men will likely end up getting into psychologically damaging and emotionally destructive ersatz relationships with digital women – which, for them, will be the best most of them can do, unfortunately.
But for high-status men – suddenly, their currency is more valuable than ever.
And for the most attractive and beautiful young women… well, their bodies are no longer nearly as valuable as they once thought.
This might actually be good news. Perhaps, just possibly, it might spark a renewed interest in beautiful young women in the Western world looking to get married and have children at a young age – because they have nothing else going for them.
And while we are thinking along those lines, perhaps we could also imagine rocket-powered unicorns are real…
One can dream, but the reality is, most women in the West will never learn any useful lessons from their own inevitable failures. But, the harsh slap in the face that awaits them, from the destruction of their earning potential through sites like OnlyFools, will be fun to watch, if nothing else.
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I follow a few different “AI Artist” accounts on Twixter and as a result I see a lot of AI pics and have become rather adept at being able to tell at a glance if something’s AI or not…. but even I have to admit that in the past couple of months it’s been getting harder and harder to tell anymore. I save some of the “good ones” to a gallery folder and my photo viewer app has an “on this day” gallery that it shows me what I’ve saved over the years. The AI pics from a year ago (they really only started showing up in the past 18 months or so now, though older pics obviously had filters) are all still so incredibly obvious to me, and yet I recall my reasoning for saving them in the 1st place was usually “this looks so realistic” and yet now I kinda cringe that I thought that back then….
Reinforcing the notion that digital babes will have the upper hand on the real girls:
Avg like score on the attractive yet absurd phase: 259
Avg like score on the realistic and demure phase: 171
34% advantage to the UNBELIEVABLE BABE phase
Why does this matter?
Women have always complained about unrealistic proportions in supermodels, why is this different?
Heidi Klum, Kate Upton, & Emily Ratajacommunistkowski all have one common trait: Limited shelf life. They draw attention and then they phase out for the next hot thing.
Digitals, run by omegas pimping in their lairs, have a shelf life measured in decades, not days. They won’t age out and they can keep making ‘fresh style’ content. The THOTS today have a distinct flair visually, if you hit the T&A’s from even pre-covid you can see a ‘”It’s an older influencer pic sir, but it still checks out’ flavor.
A strong first-mover advantage is present. Whoever can be the Paris Hilton of these digichicks, get on top, can stay on top. Decades of harvesting simps money. Lush offers AI bots for this purpose. Then when you’re done, you cash out and she’s a crypto asset, like a business, you can liquidate to some other interested party. One year it’ll be Bud Light trying to reclaim lost glories, another it will be Roxy putting ‘her’ to work to model their widgets.
Real women cannot compete, even if it is Helen herself.
The only way to win is not to play. In the future, self-control will be the premiere super power of any man.
GOOD point.
More and more I become convinced of the rightness of the Roman way…woman as property, either of the father or the husband. Every other option seems to be worse by way of comparison.
“ It would not be difficult for Ye Olde Didacte to feed that entire dataset into a large language model, train it to write and speak exactly the way I do, and then build an avatar on top of that, which mimics the face and movements of the HALO 4 Ur-Didact perfectly.”
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you know what the obvious giveaway would be?
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the Friday THOT post would be on time … but still apologizing for being late.
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“The basic idea is to generate a hyper-realistic AI influenza that bridges the “uncanny valley”, and looks (and acts) every bit as realistic as a real woman”
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eh, one of the primary UNrealistic parts of the AI-thots is the absurdly voluminous boobage. and the AI certainly didn’t pick that up from a general scan of the available data, even given an Instaham bias. very few women, even those who make a living off of their figures, even the enhanced ones, very few of them have Dolly Parton / Lynda Carter dimensions.
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it’s obvious that DD cup sizes isn’t a data set issue, it’s a programming choice.
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having said all that, i have to say that the Fly Emirates shirt is really on the sweet spot for me.