ylai@lemmy.ml to Gaming@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agoAn AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cardswww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square103fedilinkarrow-up1473arrow-down19cross-posted to: techtakes@awful.systems
arrow-up1464arrow-down1external-linkAn AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cardswww.pcgamer.comylai@lemmy.ml to Gaming@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square103fedilinkcross-posted to: techtakes@awful.systems
minus-squarecygon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up87arrow-down2·8 months agoSo… 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.
minus-squarefidodo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·8 months agoNo no, they’re getting copies of digital images out of it. It’s a totally fair trade!
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!