Same. If chatgpt actually could do what they claim, would they be wanking (heh) around with erotica and job boards, or would they be selling $5k/mo subscriptions that replace junior employees? The answer is obvious.

> Sexual content is uniquely powerful in its ability to reduce human beings to objects for use

Incorrect. The modern industrial revolution and most wartime militaries demonstrate far more ability to do this.

> and having the ability to generate endless amounts of it completely privately is a very dangerous power to have.

I mean, anyone can pick up some artistic skill and do this without a computer. Everyone really can have this "very dangerous power" if they want to. Your statement is only valid if sex or pictures/text of sex is intrinsically harmful, which is untrue.

No, our collective intelligence is not smarter than our base instincts and biological reward systems.

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> our collective intelligence

Come on, we are a race that took no less than 2,000 years (!) to realize the seat of thought lies in the brain and not in the heart, counting from when a prominent figure first hypothesized it (Alcmaeon of Croton).

line must go up

Moloch!