Most Americans are completely clueless that anything is even happening. They're just going about their days as they always have. Especially the older generations.
It will go the same way it goes in every other city that has tried this. After a few years they'll realize it isn't profitable so they'll pull all the cameras out.
Indeed! They're in the spotlight now but they've been fucking with the adult industry for decades. It's because of them that there are rules as to what can and can not be filmed. There are also banned words that can't be used in the film or film's description. This list of rules and words grows more and more over the years. Fuck visa/mastercard!
Last time I checked, the p!rate bay still exists. In fact there are many of them. Because the website itself is open source. The same could be done with any other site. If one gets taken down, two more pop up in it's place.
I don't know where people get the idea that a single generated image wiped out a damn rain forest. Sure what Meta, Google, X, etc are doing is indeed wrecking the planet.
Some guy running stable diffusion in their bedroom is not the problem here. It's like if I chastised you for contributing to the slave trade because you own a cell phone.
I had one that "got pulled into a meeting". Um, she had a meeting, with me!
I was eventually offered the job two or three weeks later, which I declined. In that time I had accepted a position with a company that had their shit together. This one had the nerve to ask "When were you going to tell us?" after ghosting me for weeks! I said, "I just did.".
Better make those tunnels illegal! We wouldn't want to protect anyone's hearing!