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As people predicted, it does look like making a honest living drawing smut or just pinup style stuff is going to get far harder.
Stable diffusion can provide some pretty solid results.. Prompt was, I believe, viction style paintings of big anime boobs.
Overall, while it's impressive, as someone whose life is significantly worse due to a porn habit, I'm not happy about any of it. This is just going to make more affordable & widespread superstimuli.
To some extent, perhaps. I left an nVidia 2070 crunching on "(by hioshiru and kenket and dimwitdog, Michael & Inessa Garmash, Ruan Jia, Pino Daeni), solo, anthro, male, ((wolf)), ((intricate detail fluffy fur texture)), mane, gray fur, pinup, ((yellow eyes)), chest fluff, nsfw, nude, digitigrade, (tail), handsome, cinematic" overnight, and in the morning had 5 GB of hot (if not great-resolution) werewolf dude. And there's pretty clearly been a handful of people on the Discord spinning hours of their attention on such.
On the other hand... if you had the bandwidth, you could have gotten a terabyte of furry porn anyway. The specific combo of "solo_male, canine, score:>10" caps e621's number of pages (meaning literally tens of thousands of results). Before the tumblr pornocalypse, you could have a well-filtered stream of novel content faster than the server would successfully refresh. And they're much more superstimuli, and I mention them because I expect they're among those least likely to appeal.
((And... uh, I like buff naked werewolf dudes. A lot. But that 5GB gets pretty samey pretty quick.))
Which isn't to downplay the issues related to superstimuli, at least to the susceptible. But I think it points to a more general problem, of which AI-generated content is not really going to be much of a leader on either side of the battlefield.
Has anyone ever bothered to count furries?
It does seem rather prevalent in spite of being really pretty weird.
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Curse you, furries. Because of you every time I try to talk to someone about White Wolf's Werewolf RPGs I see the light in their eyes dim as they think it's a furry thing. Why must the coolest splat also be the one the furries love :(
Yeah, I'm... probably part of the problem on that. I can complain about Awakening's balance and contradictory lore, if it'd help?
Wow, Exalted references in the wild. Unexpected.
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Those tits are absolutely massive.
The system works.
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Standard sized big ones in ecchi and hentai. Thousands of such just over at DA. That's where the AI learned it I guess.
Even happens IRL naturally, there's a rare disorder that causes adolescent breast growth to never really finish.
Worst cases surgery required because they get too big, best case it kind of tapers off eventually and can be even lucrative as illustrated by this tasteful somewhat SFW picture of a sufferer in her marble bathroom - a rarity in Croatia, where median wage doesn't exceed €12k a year.
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Yeah, unfortunately if you want big anime titties you tend to get ginormous anime titties. There's not a ton of art where it depicts a woman who is busty, but still within reason for a normal human. Which I would imagine affects the AI in turn, because that's what it could get trained on.
There's some of that, probably related to adaptation to superstimuli. Not just anime, affects all kind of racy art. Over at DA you can sometimes even see it in action in an individual artists's portfolio.
Although, it does seem the large proportions are liked more than people assume.
Assuming people who order sex dolls have preferences in regards to proportions similar to general population, it looks like the the median preferred boob size is between E and F. Somewhere in or near huge, especially on a slim woman.(sfw picture of a woman with a 34F bra size)
Wondering if we're going to see similar IRL runaway effect due to Instagram and such online social media.
It's already driving an increase in cosmetic surgery, but if some biotech firm found a way of re-starting adolescent development things could get out of hand.
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