More Porn & AI

We gave this a brief mention last week in our viral news roundup, but the story surely begs a deeper dive. If a new SWR Data report is to be believed, the company’s “State of the Creator” survey reveals that just about two-thirds of adult content creators surveyed (just a tickle over 60 percent), now use some sort of Artificial Intelligence tool to either “expand or run their adult content.”

That adult content creators are using AI, should come as no surprise, as it is being adapted by so many businesses. But just what these creators are using it for is quite telling.

Actual AI content?

According to the report, while AI is being used at porn shoots for what the report terms “inspiration,” for a good chunk of the population using the tools, only 28 percent of the users are employing it to make actual adult content. And only one-out-of-five performers have used it to chat with fans.

How one views these numbers, even percentages that seem rather low, is how one comes down on AI creation overall. But in the actual survey, adult creators come down in an almost even split over those who take to AI negatively and those who take to it positively.

AI is where the money goes.

Regardless of how a content creator, cam girl, or still photographer (or lowly adult article writer) feels about AI porn infiltration the fact of the matter is lots of money is being invested in its generators. There is no escaping this technology. It just seems adult content creators are not exactly sure where they want to employ it or how much they want to employ it when they engage AI tools.

And when it comes to those tools, they are all so easy to find, pay for, and engage. A Pandora’s Box of possibilities awaits even an amateur porn producer. Wouldn’t anybody be tempted?

The ethical question

As this article points out the “mass production of AI porn has significant ethical and social implications.” As much as we might come to enjoy ever more customizable scenes, conversations, and other adult-themed interactions (bettering any niche fetish search we might attempt presently) we have already seen how there has been a proliferation of deep fakes because of AI. Not to mention the constant question of the possible illegality of AI adult content production via copywriting infringement.

And while surely AI might be able to cut down on production costs for producers and studios, will it, as we all worry about AI infiltration in all jobs, put people ultimately out of work?

Interestingly, and again, this could be seen as good or bad news, depending on where you come down on all the issue, only eight percent of the adult content creators surveyed who use AI have created a twin AI version of themselves.