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-square74fedilinkarrow-up1271arrow-down14
arrow-up1267arrow-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-square74fedilink
minus-squarecygon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up39arrow-down1·8 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.
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.