Mysterious ‘Deepfake VR Porn Video’ Appears On VRPorn.com With Japanese Actress Replacing Maya Woulfe

Deepfake porn. Even many hardened sex tech enthusiasts shudder at these words. And yet, was there really any doubt that it was going to impact the mainstream porn industry, including VR porn, eventually? Legitimately that is, of course. It’s long been known that the team at SexLikeReal have been working on applying deepfake tech to virtual reality porn, but it seems that their rival as top VR aggregator site – VRPorn.com – might have beaten them to it. At least, VRPorn.com is hosting an apparent deepfake VR porn video from a Japanese VR studio called Migoto VR. This is their only video thus far, and curiously, it seems presented as an original video. In the VRPorn.com blurb for Migoto VR, they are described as ‘an innovative VR Porn studio that specializes in introducing fresh, emerging Japanese pornstars you won’t find anywhere else‘. Despite their stated mission, the video page does not include the name of the Japanese actress in the scene.

However, a thread was created at the popular subreddit /OculusNSFW titled ‘We In The Matrix Now’, in which the OP claims that the video is in fact a deepfaked version of an original Maya Woulfe VR Bangers scene, released in May of last year – The Shiatsu Method. A quick comparison of the two respective trailers confirms that it is indeed the same scene, with the voice of Maya Woulfe unaltered.

The left of the two images above is Maya Woulfe in the original scene, and the second as she appears as a Japanese woman in the Migoto VR release.

Several lesser known VR porn sites are hosting the Migoto VR video, and they list the actress as being ‘Morita Mieko’. A Google search for her name found not a single result. Perhaps this is what they mean when they say you wont find her anywhere else? It also leads me to think that this isn’t actually a ‘deepfake’ video at all, at least not what we commonly mean by it using the face of another actress, and rather they have used AI to turn Maya Woulfe into a generic Japanese woman (and very convincingly too).

Who knows what Maya Woulfe thinks of all this, but it should be noted that VRPorn.com was acquired by the owners of VR Bangers, so they own the rights to the original Maya Woulfe scene.

No doubt this is just the beginning of the use of deepfake tech in VR porn, and one can only guess where it might lead. The OP (VRfanservice) of the Reddit thread had this to say about what it all could lead to.

Just saw this scene on VRP, looks like it’s a deepfake of a VRB scene with Maya Woulfe. I was curious when I heard the accent and was wondering if it was a US team in Japan or Japanese talent in LA, but the truth was far more surprising!

I’m not sure how I feel about it to be honest: is it cultural appropriation? Is it the end of performers getting higher rates for popularity when someone could take a photo from the internet and slap it on an old scene? Is there a need to “film” content anymore when you could take what already exists, run it through a couple of AI filters, and have a completely different scene with a brand new cast of dead or alive stars?

VR has already become so stale with regards to content offerings and this all seemed inevitable. My wife and I used to joke how, since people want the same five positions with a minimum amount of minutes of each, we might as well film one scene like our Private Dance with Haley Spades scene and replace the faces so it always feel’s “new” and now here we are!

I’m going to stay optimistic, but this really calls into question production contracts and how talent can protect themselves from being reused without compensation as this is a wild frontier that we’re running head first into without any responsible adults at the helm to keep everyone from running off the proverbial cliff.

Another commentator was even more alarmed by this apparent breakthrough in deepfake VR tech.

Just saw the preview and it’s scary how good it looks. There’s some softening on the edges of the face sometimes, but anyone not looking for it won’t even see the difference most of the time. And this is VR porn, where the models are larger sized and in 3D and in your face way more intimately, so it’s put under a more severe test than 2D and still passed.

I was only able to see it in 4K max. Members of VRPorn can see it in 5K or 8K, so it’s possible the flaws are way more apparent. But if it looks like this now, it’s going to look leagues better quite soon.

If I were a producer or model, I would tell others right now something is brewing and they need to get started on creating some form of actor protection or getting some rules and laws established here. This AI revolution is coming too fast and we aren’t prepared how it’s going to change, for better and worse, so many aspects of technology and lives.