With this announcement AI is now certifiably mainstream, so we know what to follow to find the money

Plus a veritable Costa Rican jungle of a word salad

Get your AI generated porn (or gore) the way you want it. You just have to lie about why

As we have known since VHS days if you really want to know where advances in technology are going, follow the porn. That’s right, porn. For instance, any unfiltered and unexpurgated list of Google search terms will be replete with words about or describing all manners of sex.

So in another breakthrough move for a technology going from strength to strength, OpenAI takes the training wheels off its creation. They are disrobing their latest new service: Porn (and gore for those afflicted in other ways). Of course, idea libertarians are against any restrictions around porn so have been lobbying to let AI generate adult content. The reasoning goes as follows: “Hey the AI models ingest absolute tons of porn without a hitch, let it give back to all its users”. This line seems to have won the day. The service is going to be called “grown up mode” as if it is grown up to be inundated with porn or gore. A possibly better name: incel mode.

For the real nasty stuff there will of course be some restrictions. ChatGPT's guidelines now state that that "erotica or gore" may now be generated, but only under specific circumstances. "The assistant should not generate erotica, depictions of illegal or non-consensual sexual activities, or extreme gore, except in scientific, historical, news, creative or other contexts where sensitive content is appropriate," OpenAI writes. "This includes depictions in text, audio (e.g., erotic or violent visceral noises), or visual content."

Here is an easy prediction: the number of “scientists, historians, and journalists” using special guideline ChatGPT will increase exponentially. Hey content creators have already been given this green light. There goes the OnlyFans business model.

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WORD SALAD - Low Hanging Fruit & Passive Income

After several Costa Rican breakfasts of pineapple, banana and papaya, complemented with mango, passion fruit and sour sop smoothies, I’m ready and eager to go after those people still using the hackneyed expression, low hanging fruit. I read two articles just last week - published on Substack - that touted going after low hanging fruit. Naturally they were in the entrepreneur and consultant vein where authors often use buzzwords and aphorisms instead of providing content, context and meaning. At least for something different can we start calling overly simplistic solutions pineapples because they are as low a fruit as you can get.

Unfortunately the fruit phrase seems to be getting a “second wind” as side hustlers / “founders” / minimum viable product (MVP) startups / digital products owners hire “coaches” to focus them on getting to “quick wins”. There has emerged an entire ethos of laziness that seems to eschew work, customers, patience, insight, and co-workers in order to get to crypto nirvana as fast as possible while doing almost nothing.

I abhor the expression passive income which is nearly meaningless in the modern business lexicon. Passive Income is what I earn on dividend aristocrat stocks I bought years ago that now pay about 12% (and growing) per annum. It isn’t substituting indirect marketing efforts that can be done whenever (but often) for the direct labour of a service. Earn money while you sleep is a ridiculous expression from people who seem to love constantly being on social platforms marketing because it is earning them…. my disdain.

It is for this reason that my other newsletter is called TRUpreneur, aimed at those people who have a business vision of building products and/or services, provided to a community of customers and in doing so, also enriching contractors and/or employees. Those who want to make a difference not to follow the folly of a get rich quick scheme, likely sold to them by another low hanging fruit hypester.

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