Say goodbye to being limited to categories and tags when you are looking for your dream live cam girl. Leading adult webcam platform Stripchat has introduced a new search feature that lets users enter custom search queries. The exciting aspect of this is that the results make use of “computer vision”. This technology lets the AI visually recognize and match individual cam performers to queries with physical descriptions, even when there is no corresponding category or tag. According to a Stripchat rep, it works in 50 languages and “nothing is too specific to ask for”.
As reported by XBiz:
According to a rep, the feature has processed over two million queries since its beta launch in February.
“If a user wants to see a model with perfect abs, they just have to type that; Stripchat’s computer vision technology recognizes what is happening in live public shows and makes it searchable, so a description finds the room even when no category matches it,” said the rep. “With more than 150,000 models streaming every month, almost nothing is too specific to ask for.”
Added Stripchat Head of Brand Chase, “Search should feel like magic — you describe the room, and there it is. That is what ours does, and that is why we called it Magic Search. We see it as the future of discovery. Whatever your niche, we want to fill your room with people who are into what you do and give you an even better chance to succeed.”
This isn’t the first time that AI vision tech has been used by a live adult cam platform. As far back as 2016, a now defunct site called MegaCams was promising to match a photo of a user’s “crush” with the most physically similar cam model available. The company behind the site even marketed this in press releases as “live sex with a person you know“. It may seem remarkable now, but at the time, this didn’t attract much controversy, although I correctly foresaw that it was a harbinger of inevitable deepfake porn panics and resulting legislation (the term “deepfake porn” did not take off until the following year).
Facial recognition has been notoriously used to dox the identity of pornstars, both amateur and pro. This is likely the first time, however, that the adult industry has made use of the technology for profit. The potential of facial technology is huge, from 2D porn to augmented reality porn, as well as 3D printed sex dolls and toys. The danger is that leglislators may not distinguish too carefully between the legitimate use of it in porn and illegal ‘revenge porn’. For example, there will soon be applications or sites offering to turn a photo of your lusted after neighbour or co-worker into a naked 3D girl in virtual reality that you can even have sex with. Would this be revenge porn without the consent of the imaged person? Even if viewable only to the person who uploads the image? This will be just one example of a plethora of moral and legal questions that will soon be raised by the rapid explosion in future sex tech currently taking place.
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