In an of the ways in which generative porn tech is being used, there’s been a small but meaningful uptick in the amount of photorealistic AI-generated child sexual abuse material circulating on the dark web. In one instance reported by Fox News, a 15-year-old boy was by a member of an online gym enthusiast group who used generative AI to edit a photo of the boy’s bare chest into a nude.
Nothing about the Unstable Diffusion app screams “porn.” It’s a relatively bareboned interface, with options to adjust image post-processing effects such as saturation, aspect ratio and the speed of the image generation. In addition to the prompt, Unstable Diffusion lets you specify things that you want excluded from generated images. And, as the whole thing’s a commercial endeavor, there’s paid plans to increase the number of simultaneous image generation requests you can make at one time.
To wit, a of U.S. states have laws against deepfake porn on the books, and there’s at least one effort in Congress to make nonconsensual AI-generated porn illegal in the U.S.
The publication reports that there is now concern that porn viewers will soon prefer the raunchy robots more than actual real-life performers, given that they can be programmed to be “perfect”, with “small waists” and “big breasts.”
“I strongly doubt there ever will be the one porn that rules them all, as that’s not how our brains work when it comes to sexual fantasies and erotic images,” she told the Independent. “Simply put, we are all different and enjoy different things.”