"Porn-adjacent" = I would be embarrassed to have the ad pop up on my screen in front of my mother, due to its sexualised nature

Background on this recent phenomenon: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/srAzAEoCnkM6Acfsh/pornographic-and-semi-pornographic-ads-on-mainstream

It seems like due to AIs increasingly being involved in advertising on Twitter, AI misalignment, and the reluctance of a number of mainstream advertisers to advertise on Twitter, the incidence of "porn-y" ads on Twitter is increasing.

Some factors that could increase this:

• AIs getting better at harvesting clickthroughs, conversions or whatever they are ultimately optimising against, by generating advertising images using the "sex sells" principle

• Different companies or cybercriminal gangs copying this behaviour because they see that it works

Some factors that could decrease this:

• AIs finding even more effective techniques than the "sex sells" principle to harvest clickthroughs. (Threatening the user? Telling them that the FBI/IRS is after them?)

• Elon Musk introducing more human review of ads on Twitter

• Elon Musk using his considerable AI expertise to crack down on this problem

• Mainstream advertisers returning to Twitter and pricing out the criminals (unlikely)

I will resolve this market by tallying up the ads I see on Twitter in each category in a spreadsheet in December 2024. If Twitter ceases to exist, this market will resolve N/A.