It would be a lot easier to engage with the subculture from the outside if the porn wasn’t so prevalent or up-front as it is/had been in the past, and if the weirdest/most socially maladjusted members of the culture didn’t tend to be the most attention grabbing (but that’s an issue with almost every group online though).

If you’re up for it, I’d love to be pointed at some good examples of the subculture outside of the fetish/kink stuff.

Unfortunately there is a bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation here. Put overly simply: If we start enforcing copyright in training AI models now, do you really believe that any companies who have already trained their models are really going to just toss them? I’m afraid that it’s going to just be regulatory capture where the existing big names just pull the ladder up behind them while still making money off of their stolen content fueled plagiarism machines.

We’ll ignore that OpenAI isn’t actually profitable for the sake of the argument.

That said, abolishing copyright is quite possibly the stupidest solution I’ve ever heard for this issue.

No spyware if you pirate it. In line with the themes too.