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While I was archiving the Cohost Horny Global Feed in December, I was surprised at how little AI-generated images were ever posted there. As far as I can tell, September 2023 was the last time anyone posted AI slop onto that tag, which I felt was impressive considering the website still had a year left at that point. So many pictures, so many erotic stories, and I could almost feel how horny they all made their creators as they were making them. Whereas, I only felt frustration at the AI stuff. I could tell that the people (cis men mostly) who posted it spent longer than they would probably admit trying to come up with a permutation of their request that would result in a satisfactory product, and there were still glaring flaws. If I could see the flaws, I'm sure they could too, but they were so tired of sitting at the computer with their hand down their pants, trying to convince whatever porn generator to show them the image in their head, that they just gave up, feigned arousal and satisfaction, and jacked off as emotionlessly as had been the bank of computers that churned the image out.
I felt sorry for these guys, who probably had a boilerplate "in defence of AI art" manifesto in their drafts folder to deploy in case of criticism, so I came here and proffered a very sincere solution in Fitgirl's repack of anadius' NoCD crack of The Sims 4. If they're still too unsure of their own abilities to draw pretty girls and don't want to risk the exposure in asking someone to teach them how— then, at least 2 generations of people have been making cute guys and girls in The Sims. I remember loading meshes and skins into SimPose and posing big-titty girls and muscle men in sexy postures when I was in middle school, and that was back when customising sims' body shapes was hard to do! The Sims 4 makes it so easy, even a genAI bootlicker can do it.
Back on task. I've written several sexy fanfics in my life and drawn a lot of porny scenes in my sketchbooks. None of it is anything I'd ever want to publish of course, but the fact is that they exist and they serve as a snapshot of my sexual desire from that moment in time. Does any of it stack up against the slick manga paintings that people went to design school to learn how to make? Or even the anthro art that someone spends an afternoon making in Krita? No, of course not. But— and, here's the thing— it doesn't have to! I made these because I was horny but not in the mood to scroll through the same 900 pictures in a different order. I have no doubt that everyone who ever made something without AI to post onto The Cohost Global Feed (Horny) would agree with me on this: it's the process of creation that makes you the wettest. It's where your mind takes you as you draw or as you write. You're savouring the creative experience just as much as the theoretical person who's going to read your story. As you write, you get closer and closer to the big sex-scene, and you start teasing yourself a little; diverting a little for exposition here, over-describing how horny your character is there, moving the goalposts just a little further away so you can get wetter and wetter, writing until you can't keep your hand off your cooch anymore. It puts you into the story, and that's the biggest thrill of all: the thrill of creation.
Generative AI doesn't do any of that. You're not getting wet by typing "big booby brunette sucks a thick cock" into the AI prompt and waiting for the bank of computers at the other end to empty the entire water supply of the Indian state of Gujarat into its heatsink while it tries to figure out what you want. Plus, when it's over, it's over. You can either rephrase your request and wait some more as your dick gets increasingly flaccid, or you can jack off and pretend that this picture of a large blue-footed booby with a brown wig with a rooster halfway down its throat is good enough for the amount of time you have before you have to leave the employee restroom.
That's what's so attractive about AI-generated stuff: it fills the void. It does nothing else but give you a unique visual to look at for a second and a half as you scroll by it on your dashboard. You're not supposed to enjoy it, you're just supposed to consume it, because the corporate feudal state has decided that you're too dumb to know the difference. In a couple of cases where I made sexy stuff— my Looney Tunes Show Baffy fic comes to mind— I was using the amount of time I spent away from LibreOffice as an aphrodisiac. I kept thinking how my boys were going to get into each other's beds and how they were going to savour the joy of discovery. I looked at LibreOffice as a bedroom full of rose petals and scented candles, and how much I was looking forward to slipping under those covers when I could just get home. Generative AI doesn't do that. Generative AI is a pie-throwing machine. You know it's going to hit you in the face with a pie, but you press the button anyway and hope that it's a lemon-meringue pie instead of diaper again. But, no. It's always a diaper pie. It doesn't matter what finger you press the button with, you'll always get a diaper pie in the face.