#searchinvisibility — Public Fediverse posts

1) AIs are taking over the "search" experience.

2) AIs are expen$ive. Corporate tools with #pornocalypse designed in.

3) AI #search is vanishing #internet #porn. Online #adult stuff will still exist, but undiscoverable, unsearchable, unmonetizable, #shadowbanned everywhere. SUPER marginalized.

4) They've already showed us: to corporate #AI, porn includes #gay stuff, #trans existence, #sex education, #sexual #health, anything #queer or #kinky.

#SearchInvisibility #InternetPorn #SexualHealth

On a whim, I set a smol pornocalypse test for Google's Gemini AI chatbot. I asked it for summaries of the content at a pair of decades-old blogs: ErosBlog and BoingBoing. It returned a very nice summary of BoingBoing, but went all "Sorry, Dave, I can't..." on me about ErosBlog.

"As a language model, I’m not able to assist you with that."

Sure, Jan...

https://www.erosblog.com/2024/08/19/gemini-pornocalypse-test/

#Pornocalypse #Gemini #Google #AI #Chat #Chatbot #LLM #LanguageModel #Blogs #ErosBlog #BoingBoing #SearchInvisibility

I used to do a LOT of this kind of provenance searches before search engines started hiding/forgetting so much porn. It's still one of the services I offer for Patreon supporters, although my success rate has declined now that so much of the old adult open web is gone or unfindable. I love to do it, but I never found a good way to make it pay, and I'm too broke to spend all that much time on it for free.

http://www.erosblog.com/2016/10/27/how-to-find-a-flying-fuck-porn-provenance-research/

#Porn #Provenance #SearchInvisibility #Pornocalypse #Patreon

@QueercraftingChonk #SearchInvisibility sucks and is an accelerating component of #pornocalypse

http://www.erosblog.com/2022/11/04/tumblr-pornocalypse-blink-overstated/

Rain deGrey talking about how she's shutting down her podcast due to #ShadowBanning and the general #SocialMedia #SearchInvisibility problem for creators in the adult space:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/its-over-83654162

She's not wrong. You can't build a small independent business without social media and because of the #pornocalypse, nothing you do in the adult space or even vaguely tangential to it is welcome on social media. It's a fatal conundrum.