When signing up for the service, the default setting opts users' computers in for jobs that produce AI-generated adult content. However, users have the option to manually configure workload types and uncheck the "Adult Content Workloads" option. The post also mentions that some content is only available to paid members, and free members have access to certain posts and a weekly email round-up of stories.
Key takeaways:
- Salad, a company that pays gamers in Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards to rent their idle GPUs remotely to generative AI companies, is using those idle computers to create AI-generated porn.
- There is no evidence that Salad and its network of idle gaming PCs produced nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images, but it is technically possible.
- Salad doesn't hide the fact that participating users may end up generating AI porn with their idle machines, and gives them the choice to opt-out from producing such content.
- Upon signing up for the service, the author's computer was by default opted in for jobs that produce AI-generated adult content, but there was an option to uncheck this.