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Criminals and the porn industry are almost invariably early adopters of new technologies. For better or worse their use-cases are proof-of-concepts that get expanded and built on, if successful, by more legitimate industries.

Re: the Internet.

Re: Peer-to-peer.

Re: Video streaming.

Re: AI.





What is the average length of time for new tech to escape porn and crime and integrate into real applications? Longer than 15 years?

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Some kind of function of how quickly regulation comes to the technology.

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How were criminals the early adopters of Internet, Video streaming and AI?

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They weren't but it makes certain people feel better to say it.

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Single examples:

Internet: The Cuckoo's Egg (nation state, more so than criminals maybe, but it's a blurry distinction)

AI: Elon Musk youtube (often cryptocurrency scam) ads

Video streaming was more obviously exclusively a porn thing

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