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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it would help if you could state your position more clearly. (in case of caryn marjorie, it was clearly not what she wanted, which should be enough, and that before we even consider the ethics issues built-in into the technology.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

it was clearly not what she wanted

see, i'm a little skeptical on that one

or at least, she was delighted to accept $70k/week at $1/min without a second's thought as to what someone would pay $1/min for

and somehow failed to notice that she was working with literally a sexy bot company

to be fair, i find it quite believable that she didn't realise how awful some of the chat could be until she looked more closely

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A friend was just telling me about these Tiktok dance cults where they house young people and pay them to do dance videos all day. They're young, get to do what they want, live in a big house, and get paid well.... today. You know, ask young gymnists and other sports figures how the retirement plan for young physcal performers is after your handlers have sucked every bit of money out of you there is.

But how could you tell these kids otherwise? It's not like sex workers (or any workers really) have infinite choices. You take what pay you can get sometimes to do what work there is. And when that work is hyper-exploitative but still better than any other offer around, what are you supposed to do? It's be exploited and have your personality stolen to sell to other sex-starved, alienated proletarians; or starve. What a choice.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Normal result for society that has no other reason to exist besides making somebody else rich.