The cost of an AI wank: pricier than sex?

The business of AI wanking: saving or splurging?

A recent debate has raised an awkward question: is it cheaper to generate your own porn with artificial intelligence than to pay for subscriptions or, quite simply, have sens? The answer, according to the calculations circulating around, is not so obvious.

The key lies in the hardware. To generate high-quality uncensored videos locally, you need an NVIDIA RTX 5090 graphics card, which costs over 5,000 euros. On top of that you have to add learning time and electricity. Facing it, the free option: Pornhub, Xvideos and Xhamster offer huge catalogs at no direct cost. And then there is the biological alternative: real sens, which, as one comment points out, "is still cheaper than wanking" –sic, the ironies of language.

Some argue that, with tricks and uncensored online versions (like Grok without restrictions), you can generate unlimited videos for free, avoiding the hardware investment. Others recall that even before AI there were 3D apps for modeling scenes, and that imagination remains the cheapest resource. In any case, the line between saving and splurging depends on how much you value personalization over fixed cost.

The truth is that the AI-generated prono market is growing, but it runs into two realities: hardware prices remain prohibitive for the average user, and free platforms already cover most tastes –except, perhaps, the most specific or illegal ones, as one participant points out. The debate, at its core, reflects how technology doesn't always make vices cheaper: sometimes it makes them more expensive, and real sens keeps winning by a landslide in value for money.

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