The Week In Sex Tech – Pornhub’s Future As AI Porn Site, How To Spot An AI Girl Online, A New Sex Robot Study
Pornhub Takeover Is About AI Porn
While AI porn has been exploding recently, it appears that most of the online generators currently out there, are chiefly independent Patreon project developers. Well given that the AI porn industry will likely be worth billions of dollars in a few years time, that wasn’t going to last for long. And indeed, according to a report in the New York Post, the parent company of noneother than Pornhub was recently acquired, with the new owner’s eyes fixed firmly upon the future and AI porn.
In a press release, Canada-based Ethical declared that the giant smut site’s parent company, MindGeek – which has spent the past few years fending off accusations of sex-trafficking and child porn – was “built upon a foundation of trust, safety, and compliance.”
But what may be still more surprising to some, according to industry insiders, is the fact that technology could be a key driver for the deal – and that tech could help solve ethical issues that have dogged porn since the beginning, even as it boosts the bottom line.
In particular, some believe that human porn stars are destined to become a relic of the past – as outdated as the mustaches and perfunctory plot lines that riddled porn flicks in the 70s and 80s – and that they’ll be replaced by computer-generated stars.
“Every major piece of technological change is mastered by porn first: from VHS tapes to DVDs to internet video—all became popularized because of porn.”
“And now the same thing is happening with generative AI and deep fakes — buying this is a great way to get into this business before most porn is computer generated and dramatically reducing the costs of content creation.”
The source adds that in a few years creating pornography could cost almost nothing — and ECP could end up with an asset that requires little investment to run and generates significant revenues.
Life Hacker Publishes Tips On How To Spot An AI Girl
With the recent news of AI generated babes selling nude images on Reddit to simps believing they are real, Life Hacker magazine published a handy guide to spotting such AI fakes. The advice is mostly pretty obvioius, such as ‘too perfect looking’, but it does provide a link to an interesting Chrome Extension which scans photos to check if they are probably AI or real.
At present, the technology for generating AI images is advanced enough to create images of human faces that can fool many of the people, much of the time—you can check out Which Face is Real and test yourself to see what I mean—but it isn’t as good at filling in the details in the background of photos. The backgrounds of AI photos tend to look like a texture, or feature details that don’t make sense—posters with “text-like” writing that isn’t text, areas that look painted, etc.
To get around this, AI-generated humans are often presented with a blurred or relatively featureless background. Check out this pic of Claudia: Her room’s decoration-free walls and featureless TV scream “AI.” Note that the angles of the wall don’t actually meet, and that the furniture holding the TV seems connected to the floor.
Study Shows Horny Men More Likely To Have Sex With Robots
Another sex robot study has confirmed the obvious – not only that men are more open to sex robots than women, but also that horny men are the most likely to be open to them.
While sex robots are undoubtedly coming (if they haven’t already), no research has actually explored whether sexual arousal will open humans up to their use.
In order to do so, researchers recruited a cohort of 321 people over the age of 18 through the internet and word-of-mouth and asked them to complete a two-part online survey. First, they filled out how likely they would be to do various things with a robot, including being friends with one, being in a relationship with one, and getting intimate with one.
One week later, they were shown a 10-minute sexually explicit video and asked to repeat the survey, with the researchers expecting to see a difference in how they responded once aroused.
On almost all accounts, sexual arousal increased the willingness of participants to engage in sexual activity and have romantic (or platonic) relationships with a robot – the only metric that didn’t go up was whether they were willing to love a robot.
Men were found to be more likely to give a robot a chance compared to women when it came to getting intimate with them, but there were no differences between genders when it came to whether they would befriend or fall in love with a robot.
The study was published in the Journal of Sex Research.