It’s now something of a truism, and one of the guiding philosophies of this site, that sex and porn play a leading role in driving technology forward. But do they also determine the path of legislation too? In an interesting article published this week, Darrell M. West – the author of ‘The Future of Work:… Read more »
As the ‘face swapping’ technology behind deepfakes continues to rapidly improve, it seems as though the media moral panic over the use of it in fake porn is being renewed. Two major media reports this week asked – ‘Are deepfakes the new revenge porn?’. Feminist minded culture magazine VOX published an interesting if very one-sided… Read more »
A major backlash against the AI generated celebrity fake porn termed ‘deepfakes’ is now well underway, with the major hub of the community on Reddit now banned, as well as all deepfake porn on Twitter. The argument against deepfake porn is mainly that it is non-consensual; ‘digital rape’ as some extreme feminists have termed it.… Read more »
The uploading on Reddit of scarily realistic face celeb porn, apparently generated by one redditter using AI software, has provoked a minor media moral panic this week. In one short gif video, the face of Wonderwoman actress Gal Gadot has been grafted on to the body of a porn actress in a ‘stepsister’ scene. Fake… Read more »
#MakeAPP is a new app for the iPhone that lets users upload photos of women and ‘removes their makeup’ to allegedly let you see their natural look. Unsurprisingly, it has already upset a lot of people, with some feminists going so far to call it ‘a plot to make men think all woman are ugly‘.… Read more »
Sony has revealed new smartphones that can create detailed 3D scans of almost any object using the phone’s camera. The company said the innovation was possible thanks to the power of the processor in its latest handsets. It unveiled a series of new devices at the Ifa technology show in Berlin. http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-41111442/sony-phone-app-takes-3d-clone-snaps It goes without… Read more »
And so it begins. Probably several years before VR porn even approaches mainstream, a group of radical feminist academics at a British university in Newcastle have published a paper warning of the dangers of the new erotic frontier. Predictably, the headline grabbing thesis of the paper – that vr porn will raise new issues of… Read more »
Just as we can be sure that the emerging sex technologies will create novel erotic possibilities, we can be certain that new ethical boundaries will follow with them. The question is whether these new ethical and legal rules will be based upon calm reflection or moral hysteria. The history of the internet suggests the latter.… Read more »
An adult webcam site – MegaCams – is offering visitors the use of facial recognition software to find a camgirl out of it’s huge database of performers who looks like a crush of theirs. You can upload a picture of someone you want to see nude. Megacams will scan your image and match it with… Read more »