South Africa Will Make Deepfake Porn Illegal
South Africa is about to become the latest of a small number of countries to introduce a law against ‘deepfake porn’. The Cybercrimes Bill is directed against revenge porn and, …
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Does Sex & Porn Drive Legislation?
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 …
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Moral Panic Over Deepfakes Renewed
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. …
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Twitter & Reddit Ban Deepfake Porn
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 …
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AI Created Fake Celeb Porn
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 …
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Makeup Removal App Causes Controversy
#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 …
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Sony Smartphone Takes 3D Clone Snaps
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 …
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Radical Feminists Demand Curbs On VR Porn
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 …
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VR Porn and Moral Panics
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 …
Read MoreAdult Cam Site Uses Facial Recognition Software to Help You Find Lookalike of Your Crush
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 …
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