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our loops of disbelief or anger and that’s all you talk about. You go on and on about how shitty things are. How sorry you are for the behavior of other white people. You moan, you whine, and of course you cry…there are a lot of tears.</p><p id="46cb"><b>BUT THAT IS ALL. YOU DO NOT TAKE MEANINGFUL ACTION.</b></p><p id="8837">So on this day. A day that so many, <i>on both sides</i>, are hoping will be the defining moment regarding the essential nature and character of the United States, I thought it would be the perfect time to help anti-racist white people process and get out of their feelings and join the rest of us in creating an identity for the United States that it was not designed to have.</p><figure id="953f"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*RfM54v1Na0FjVRCjueRYkg.png"><figcaption><a href="https://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/">https://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/</a></figcaption></figure><p id="6bfa">Denial, let’s be honest, is where most white people, in the United States, fall. They continue to sit in disbelief at the telling of our stories. These are the individuals who know something is different but are not yet ready to accept that their privilege, if they will even admit to having any, was gained as a result of oppressing and annihilating others. They are working hard to reconcile what they hear and see in the media or real life with the intentional lack of historical knowledge they need to make any sense of this new understanding. These are the individuals who pepper us with requests for data, they #notallwhitepeople and #alllivesmatter us because any other responses would mean acknowledging their own ignorance and role, intentional or otherwise, in maintaining the house of white supremacy.</p><figure id="7506"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*bl5eGRJVutsp5ZC0voYq3g.png"><figcaption><a href="https://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/">https://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/</a></figcaption></figure><p id="8c32">Anger is one of the two stages where white people get stuck and boy do you get angry. Every other word out of your mouths is “fight this” and “fight that”. It makes sense to want to fight but what many of you are unaware of is that your calls to fight seldom will make you the victim. What usually happens is that your anger triggers the anger of other white people and they in turn focus their anger onto the very communities of marginalized individuals you are angrily working to protect. We’ve increasingly seen this play out in examples such as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/black-man-beaten-in-charlottesville-found-not-guilty-of-assaulting-white-supremacist/2018/03/16/92160a88-288f-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.2822f97b9047">black man beaten in Charlottesville found not guilty of assaulting white supremacist</a>, <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-kentucky-kroger-store-shooting-20181025-story.html">‘whites don’t shoot whites,’ suspected gunman told man after killing 2 black customers at Kentucky Kroger</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-militia-groups-head-to-border-stirred-by-trumps-call-to-arms/2018/11/03/ff96826c-decf-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html?utm_term=.0f7628b98fde">U.S. militia groups head to border, stirred by Trump’s call to arms</a>,<b> </b>and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/us/angry-white-man-john-blake/index.html">when the dreaded ‘other’ is an angry white man</a> to name a few. White people must understand that although anger is a normal stage in the grieving process, your anger does not put you in danger but threatens the lives and well-being of the most vulnerable members of our society.</p><figure id="fba2"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*vDFcXN4O1uFKwqxA0Xwrzw.png"><figcaption><a href="https://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/">https://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/</a></figcaption></figure><p id="1760">Let me be honest, although I am very aware of the stages and the need for individuals to move through them at their own pace, bargaining is the stage where I lose my patience with white people. This is the stage where you really work my nerves because this is where you cen

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ter yourself, often to the detriment of those communities who are actually in harms way. You are so into your guilt for “not knowing” that instead of channeling your newfound understanding into learning and taking action, you position yourself as a martyr or, god forbid, an ally, and every conversation is about you, how badly you feel for not being aware of white supremacy or even the level of your own privilege. THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU! I get it. You’re upset. But please stop making your shit to unpack and deal with, the emotional labor of others, particularly individuals whose lived experiences are steeped in the oppression of white supremacy.</p><figure id="3067"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*XWaeHof18-92cGWuJ5p19g.png"><figcaption><a href="https://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/">https://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/</a></figcaption></figure><p id="9fab">Depression. Now this is a big one because this is the other stage that white people get stuck in because working to dismantle a system of white supremacy seems like an impossible and overwhelming effort. How does one even start to work on attacking this goal? So many of us are used to instant gratification of getting to the “win” that for many, not seeing a way to an easy “win” sends you into a place of “why bother”. Why bother? Because our lives depend on you. We need your effort, your energy, your ideas, and your resources to make meaningful, long-lasting change and we need it like yesterday. Yes, this is a daunting undertaking but really think about the alternative. Although you may only be a witness to the atrocities that white supremacy historically and continues to inflict on marginalized communities, what you are also beginning to notice is that you, as a white person, are increasingly being impacted by its negative outcomes. This is because white supremacy is a parasite that has now started to eat its host…WHITENESS.</p><figure id="ed8b"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*BUo-06PGgVyb9q-7RrvgqQ.png"><figcaption><a href="https://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/">https://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/</a></figcaption></figure><p id="d01d">Acceptance! Finally! It is only when you are able to accept that as a white person, you have unfairly benefitted from the unearned privileges stolen from others, that you are of any help to those already on the ground, working to dismantle white supremacy. Your effort is an important component of this work and we need you to do your part. We need you to not wait around looking for orders but to actively engage by asking “how can I help?”, “where do you need me?”, “who can I connect you to?”, and “how can I fund this?” to name a few. It is important for you to also check your privilege to ensure that you are not stepping into roles where you are not qualified or that are occupied by others. You should be doing everything you can to amplify and lift the people, voices, and initiatives of those with limited or no privilege, while remaining in the background.</p><p id="3bbb">Also, if you’re serious about dismantling white supremacy, check out the <a href="https://being-antiracist.com/">Being Antiracist</a> events. Take this opportunity to learn the basics of being Antiracist, while minimizing the potential for harm your whiteness has on others, as you learn.</p><h1 id="907b">Again, let me state, that this is not about you because the work we are doing, when giving the support we need, benefits us all.</h1> <figure id="9249"> <div> <div> <img class="ratio" src="http://placehold.it/16x9"> <iframe class="" src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FSHG0ezLiVGc%3Ffeature%3Doembed&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DSHG0ezLiVGc&image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FSHG0ezLiVGc%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" width="854"> </div> </div> </figure></iframe></div></div></figure><p id="859e"><b>ENJOY!</b> Because this is a classic and can NEVER, in my opinion be shared enough.</p></article></body>

Remember Her the Movie?

Why We’re on the Brink of an AI Porn Revolution

The uncanny valley of AI love can be yours for $1 a minute

If you go on YouTube, you will see countless videos explaining generative AI and ChatGPT.

Metaverse is dead, welcome to the new tech toy — AI.

It is here and we can’t stop it.

And who better exploit it but porn and its derivatives.

Porn is always a step ahead when it comes to exploiting technology. As soon as the Internet became accessible to all, porn took over.

What traditional companies are unwilling to risk, porn takes the fake-it-until-you-make-it approach much like Elizabeth Holmes did with Theranos.

Before Zoom calls were a thing, video calls were already offered by many porn sites.

And now the possibilities are endless with AI — we are about to witness what could become a multi-billion-dollar industry — AI porn.

AI porn

Photo by Adam Kontor: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-wearing-white-bikini-leaning-on-gray-rock-881583/

But like porn as we know it today, the range will be from A to Z. And there will always be something for everybody.

And if you are lonely and looking for love, you can have that too for $1 a minute. You can have a virtual girlfriend or escort at the click of your mouse.

And one influencer could be leading the pack, she “cloned” herself, a doppelganger if you wish to call it that into an AI girlfriend that her fans could talk to for $1 a minute.

She expects to make $5 million by the time thousands of her male fans get on board.

As of today, she has a thousand virtual boyfriends who pay her virtual self to be at their beck and call.

It’s like offering OnlyFans services at a fraction of her time and her business operation is scalable beyond what is possible today.

And if her business template becomes successful, it opens the floodgates for virtual boyfriends and girlfriends peddling Ai love for a price.

Virtual influencers or the next sexcelebrity?

Loneliness is everywhere. Even the surgeon general said loneliness is a mental health hazard.

And people will always look for a way to cure their loneliness, but when you are vulnerable you are likely to fall into the trap of those who want to exploit your loneliness.

I won’t judge either the peddler or the buyer.

But behind these new AI-related services are tech companies. They are the ones who should be held liable for any type of abuse.

The influencer who is about to release her AI self out of beta should be aware that while her AI self isn’t real, the people who would be paying for her services are real.

If there are no safeguards, it could do more harm than good to those on the other side of the screen spending their money with an AI-generated girlfriend who would try to make them spend more time, which translates to more money for the influencer running her AI business.

And please, don’t start on the wrong foot by saying you are doing it to save men from loneliness.

Let us be real and call it a business.

CarynAI

CarynAI is the brainchild of Snapchat influencer Caryn Marjorie. While she claims the reason behind CarynAI is to help men cure their loneliness, she also claims that she can potentially make up to $5 million a month from the AI girlfriend clone.

So, it is a business rather than a tool to solve the biggest mental health issue facing America.

CarynAI is the first step in the right direction to cure loneliness. Men are told to suppress their emotions, hide their masculinity, and to not talk about issues they are having. I vow to fix this with CarynAI. I have worked with the world’s leading psychologists to seamlessly add CBT and DBT within chats. This will help undo trauma, rebuild physical and emotional confidence, and rebuild what has been taken away by the pandemic. — Caryn Marjorie

Everything you need to know about CarynAI

💡 CarynAI is a chatbot leveraging GPT-4 API technology to replicate Caryn Marjorie’s voice, mannerisms, and personality.
💡 Caryn Marjorie, a social media influencer, launched CarynAI to provide an “immersive AI experience” for her fans.
💡 Fans can chat with CarynAI for $1 a minute, and the product has experienced significant growth and earnings.
💡 CarynAI aims to cure loneliness and provide a girlfriend-like experience for users.
💡 The launch of CarynAI demonstrates how AI applications can enhance personal connections and increase reach to a large audience.
💡 CarynAI is the first major release from Forever Voices, a company focused on creating AI companions based on real people.
💡 There are concerns about addiction and the boundaries of simulated human connections in AI chatbot interactions.
💡 The emergence of AI companions reflects the profitable nature of progress in the realm of sex and romance.
💡 Forever Voices is exploring opportunities for AI companions beyond celebrities, including ultra-flirty AI, personal trainers, and tutor companions.
💡 The accessibility of AI models suggests a future where online avatars and AI companions are common across various spheres.
🤖 CarynAI is an AI chatbot leveraging GPT-4 API technology that replicates Caryn Marjorie’s voice, mannerisms, and personality.
💰 Users can chat with CarynAI for $1 a minute, and the product has seen significant growth and earnings.
🌐 The launch of CarynAI highlights how AI applications can enhance personal connections and enable individuals to reach a large audience.
💔 The simulations of human connection in AI companions raise questions about the depth and authenticity of these relationships.
💬 CarynAI is the first major release from Forever Voices, a company focused on creating AI companions based on real people.
🔒 Safeguards are in place to protect against harmful use cases, and efforts are made to limit the time users spend chatting with CarynAI.
💡 AI companions like CarynAI may deepen the bond between influencers and their followers and offer scalable engagement.
🌟 The future may involve AI influencers across social platforms, influencing consumer decisions without the need for real people.
⚠️ Caryn Marjorie has faced backlash and threats due to the concept of an AI girlfriend, but other online personalities are also considering AI companions.
📱 In the next five years, AI companions in various forms could become commonplace, ranging from dating AI to personal trainers and tutor companions.

Source: An influencer’s AI clone will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute

The uncanny valley of AI love

Deepfake porn is here. And soon it will be harder to differentiate what is real and what is not.

“The reason why I created CarynAI was because I wanted to cure loneliness from my fan base,” — Caryn Marjorie

Celebrities will always become the target of deepfake porn. But with generative AI, it is now possible to create a real-life image or video through prompt engineering, which is how CarynAI came to be.

While CarynAI is based on a real person, virtual influencers had long become popular and they are worth millions in dollars like Lil Miquela, who even when she’s not real creates controversies but can get away with it because she ain't real.

Final words

I wrote long before that AI or artificial intelligence is neutral. It is what we do with it that will define if it is for the good or not of our society.

AI is neutral, what we do with it, has great consequences.

AI porn is already knocking on our doors. It could become a multi-billion-dollar industry.

As for social media influencers, they can easily be replaced by virtual influencers or AI sexcelebrities.

Most of us are looking for love, and soon many of us will be looking for it in the virtual world, not in the metaverse but in the AI world where the only thing that is real is the money we will be paying for our virtual lovers.

The near future is sooner than you think, are you ready?

Thank you for reading.

Artificial Intelligence Creates Fake Faces and They Are as Real as It Gets

The uncanny valley of AI love.

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