Pornhub Will Become 100% AI Porn
According to reports in the New York Post and followed up by Immersive Porn, a recent takeover of the company that owns Pornhub indicates its future lies with AI porn. Insiders are quoted as stating that the deal was motivated at least in part, with an eye on current developments in porn tech, with the possibility that AI porn could drastically cut the costs of producing porn, while resolving the well publicized legal difficulties that PornHub has faced over the last several years.
In a press release, Canada-based Ethical declared that the giant smut site’s parent company, MindGeek – which has spent the past few years fending off accusations of sex-trafficking and child porn – was “built upon a foundation of trust, safety, and compliance.”
But what may be still more surprising to some, according to industry insiders, is the fact that technology could be a key driver for the deal – and that tech could help solve ethical issues that have dogged porn since the beginning, even as it boosts the bottom line.
In particular, some believe that human porn stars are destined to become a relic of the past – as outdated as the mustaches and perfunctory plot lines that riddled porn flicks in the 70s and 80s – and that they’ll be replaced by computer-generated stars.
“Every major piece of technological change is mastered by porn first: from VHS tapes to DVDs to internet video—all became popularized because of porn.”
“And now the same thing is happening with generative AI and deep fakes — buying this is a great way to get into this business before most porn is computer generated and dramatically reducing the costs of content creation.”
Immersive Porn notes that up-to-now, the rapidly expanding AI porn generation business has been dominated by apparently independent developers, monetizing their work on Patreon. This is sure to change quite soon. A site like Pornhub pouring millions of dollars into AI porn generation would likely lead quite soon to a photorealistic AI porn video creation tool, that users could employ to create their own personal tailored fantasies featuring their ideal dream babes. Whilst it is still an open-question as to whether this will completely satisfy porn fans on a psychological level, it’s sure to be massively popular. Another issue is potential legal problems facing AI porn generators (and AI image generators in general) that all use online images to train their systems. Pornhub, owning or having licenses for a massive library of recorded porn could avoid those potential legal hurdles by only using their own images and videos to train their AI generator.
