The adult entertainment industry, just like other industries, is finding the benefit of artificial intelligence to enhance their user experience and overall business. Also, like other industries, there are some dangerous ways AI can be misused. In adult entertainment, it can misrepresent reality and take advantage of non-consenting individuals.

1. How Artificial Intelligence
Is Transforming Porn
And Adult Entertainment

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You have probably heard how artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed or is
currently impacting many industries from financial services to healthcare. You
might not have realised how it's changing adult entertainment and the porn
industry as well. As in other sectors, the changes brought by AI can help
improve the user experience and business, but there are also some disturbing
ways it can be abused.
How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming
Porn And Adult Entertainment

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Heighten Personalisation
Just as Netflix can recommend flicks based on what you watched previously or Amazon
can suggest products to purchase based on your browsing and buying history using
artificial intelligence, AI can similarly help tag porn films. Pornhub, xHamster, and YouPorn
are all working on perfecting their artificial intelligence systems to be better at
recommending films to users of their platform.
The AI algorithms view thousands of films and images of performers to ultimately be able
to tag films where those stars perform. The users on the site are giving the opportunity to
provide feedback to the algorithm to indicate if the tagging was accurate. This user
feedback allows the AI algorithm to get better over time.
Once the system completes the sorting of the films by performer, genre and theme, it’s
expected to ultimately tag films for additional characteristics a particular user might be
interested in such as positions, locations, hair colour, etc.

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AI Helped Develop a Sex Toy
Another way artificial intelligence has been used in adult entertainment is the
development of an oral sex simulator. VIECI was the company that created the Autoblow
AI to offer men a high-tech sex toy (feeling the industry had focused more on giving
women high-quality sex toys than men). They claim the Autoblow AI is the “first-ever
device that uses artificial intelligence to replicate human sexual techniques.”
To achieve this, the data scientists used six days (8,333 minutes) of pornographic footage
to train the AI algorithm regarding how to replicate oral sex. They ran the video at 50%
speed to allow the computer to capture 30 screenshots of video per second and
document the position of the mouth. This work discovered the 16 "most-used mouth
locations" used in the films. According to the company, the result of the AI's work is an
experience that's as real as possible.

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Fake Porn and Misrepresentations
Along with benefits to the industry, there are a number of ways artificial intelligence can
be used in adult entertainment to mispresent or take advantage of the likenesses of
individuals who did not consent to the representation.
When a video surfaced that applied actress Gal Gadot’s face (Wonder Woman in the most
recent film version) onto a video where the woman was having sex with her stepbrother, it
showed how easily individuals—and their likenesses—can be used without permission and
to how someone doing or saying something they never did. While it was reasonably easy
to spot issues that indicated it was a doctored video, it was believable at a glance and
shows just how easy and how close we are to actually having people create very realistic
videos that could harm reputations and careers.
This is an example of deepfakes—porn that features celebrities’ faces photoshopped
automatically using AI on bodies that are part of porn films. Scarlett Johansson, Taylor
Swift, and Maisie Williams have all been victims.

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Fake Porn and Misrepresentations
Right now, celebrities are the most vulnerable to this attack since there are a large number
of publicly available images and videos that AI algorithms can use to learn and create
more realistic images.
Another programmer created an app called DeepNude that used artificial intelligence to
alter images of fully clothed women to make them appear naked. The app caused such
outrage the anonymous programmer deleted it just days after it went live. The app was
free, easy to use, and put every woman at risk for being taken advantage of by these fake
images.

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Facebook to Monitor for “Revenge Porn”
DeepNude, and similar tools, show just how easy “revenge porn” can be created and
circulated. In response, Facebook is employing artificial intelligence to find, and flag
nonconsensually shared intimate images. This is a positive move forward by Facebook
who previously required victims of revenge porn to report inappropriate images or send
their intimate images to the company before content moderators would take action to
remove images. AI can find and flag pictures and then forward them on to humans for
further review. The AI technology will be used across Facebook and Instagram and has
been trained to identify "nearly nude" images (i.e., lingerie shot) and derogatory text.

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Bernard Marr is an internationally best-selling author, popular keynote speaker, futurist, and a
strategic business & technology advisor to governments and companies. He helps
organisations improve their business performance, use data more intelligently, and
understand the implications of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data,
blockchains, and the Internet of Things.
LinkedIn has ranked Bernard as one of the world’s top 5 business influencers. He is a frequent
contributor to the World Economic Forum and writes a regular column for Forbes. Every day
Bernard actively engages his 1.5 million social media followers and shares content that
reaches millions of readers.
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