Adult Graphics & Photos Using Artificial Intelligence AI - Stable Diffusion, DALL-E

[Luke]

The speed of AI's progress is nothing short of magical and potentially dangerous.

This site doesn't even require registration, just type in what you want to see, and bam: https://stablediffusionweb.com/#demo

Examples
A high tech solarpunk utopia in the Amazon rainforest
A pikachu fine dining with a view to the Eiffel Tower
A mecha robot in a favela in expressionist style
an insect robot preparing a delicious meal
A small cabin on top of a snowy mountain in the style of Disney, artstation

But realistically, every technology improvement has started with adult content, from video tape recorders to the first big commercial uses of the internet. Now AI is taking the adult road. Rolling Stone:

They’re Selling Nudes of Imaginary Women on Reddit — and It’s Working
EJ Dickson Mon, April 10, 2023 at 10:59 AM

“F/19 feeling pretty today,” Claudia’s post reads. She’s got straight black bangs and giant blue-green eyes, with just the socially appropriate amount of cleavage sticking out of her grey tank top. With her alabaster skin, delicate features, and vaguely indie hairstyle, she looks exactly like someone the average Redditor would obsess over, and indeed, the comments on Claudia’s post on the subreddit r/faces are all variations of, “hot” and “you’re very gorgeous.” Except for one.

“For those who aren’t aware, I’m going to kill your fantasy,” the comment reads. “This is literally an AI creation, if you’ve worked with AI image models and making your own long enough, you can 10000% tell. Sorry to ruin the surprise, I guess.” Claudia is, indeed, an AI-generated creation, who has posted her (AI-generated) lewd photos on other subreddits, including r/normalnudes and r/amihot. She’s the brainchild of two computer science students who tell Rolling Stone they essentially made up the account as a joke, after coming across a post on Reddit from a guy who made $500 catfishing users with photos of real women. They made about $100 selling her nudes until other redditors called out the account, though they continue to post lewds on other subreddits.

“You could say this whole account is just a test to see if you can fool people with AI pictures,” says the team behind Claudia, who declined to disclose their real names. “You could compare it to the vtubers, they create their own characters and play as an entirely different person. We honestly didn’t think it would get this much traction.”

Claudia was created by Stable Diffusion, an AI program that uses machine learning to generate shockingly realistic-looking photos using nothing but a text prompt. (In this case, the text prompt was a selfie of a woman in her house “without makeup with black hair, shoulder length hair, simple background, straight hair, hair bangs.”) Her post on r/faces prompted a firestorm of users reporting the post, leading a moderator for the group, who asked not to be named, to post a disclaimer clarifying that AI-generated photos are not against the subreddit’s rules. “I take a caveat emptor approach with these things,” the moderator tells Rolling Stone. “If people think it is real and want to do something outside of my subreddit, that is on them.”

Claudia is among the first, but by no means the last, fictional adult content creator to be generated via rapidly evolving AI technology, prompting a slew of ethical questions and concerns. Most discussions about the dangers posed by AI and adult content have focused on the prevalence of deepfakes, a term used to describe an image or video that uses a person’s face without their consent. According to Sensity, an AI firm, nearly 96 percent of all deepfakes are pornographic in nature and feature a woman’s face being used without their consent. Though many platforms, like Reddit, ostensibly have policies preventing the proliferation of deep fakes, such content is fairly easy to find online, with some Discord communities selling deepfake porn of “personal girls” — meaning non-celebrities — for as little as $5 a pop, according to an NBC News report.

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But while the ethical implications of deepfake porn are fairly unambiguous, the potential threat posed by AI porn featuring fictional characters is different, says Hany Farid, a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley. “I think deepfake porn should be illegal and is really problematic. That is black and white and easy in some ways,” he says. “On this stuff, it’s more complicated.” Even though adult-content creations like Claudia are ostensibly fictional and made up whole-cloth, it is true that the billions of images used to train AI models are of real people, most of whom have probably not consented to having their likenesses used in this way. This, in itself, raises ethical issues, says Farid, as there is a possibility (albeit a very small one) that these AI models can reproduce images they were trained on. “I don’t think it’s likely, and I don’t think it happens often, but it can happen that someone can have a Facebook image, and their likeness ends up in nonconsensual imagery,” he says. “And the fact that it can happen, is important.”

There’s also the fact that even though a handful of technologically savvy Redditors were able to identify Claudia as an AI creation, she wasn’t explicitly labeled as such, which could potentially create issues for consumers. The creators behind Claudia say the onus should be on the consumer to discern whether a model is real or synthetic: “We don’t really know how to think about this, the person buying the pictures is happy with their purchase since they are looking for porn,” they say. “We never really said those are pictures of a real person, and buyers never really asked. They just assumed.”

The authentication issue could also potentially pose an issue for platforms, which rely on often elaborate verification processes to ensure that creators who join their platform are not underage or being exploited (hence, why content creators like Claudia are selling nudes in unregulated Reddit DMs, and not on sites with more stringent verification policies). While there are some human creators already on the platform OnlyFans who use AI to enhance their content in unique ways — such as HarperTheFox, who uses the technology to generate, say, cyberpunk-inspired nudes — allowing non-human creators on the platform could potentially create major issues, says Ashley, a sex-worker peer organizer who works on tech platform issues. “The idea behind all this verification is making sure no one is being exploited. There’s no person here, so no one can confirm consent,” she says, adding that platforms like OnlyFans would likely not allow AI creators on the platform for that reason. (OnlyFans did not immediately return a request for comment.)

Perhaps more to the point, the question of whether AI adult creators could one day supplant real ones fundamentally misunderstands the appeal of websites like OnlyFans, which are predicated on the idea that a subscriber is directly interacting with a model, says Ashley. She says, in the short term, the technology behind AI is simply not developed enough yet to pose a real threat to the adult marketplace: “The capabilities are still overblown. I haven’t seen anything to indicate that it could generate a video that looks like a person having sex.”

In the long term, however, though Ashley could see a market for AI-generated erotic art of, say, beloved cartoon characters, she thinks there will always be a demand for content that shows real people having sex, simply because authenticity can be a powerful selling point for all types of material goods, not just porn. She envisions a world in which flesh-and-blood adult content is valued at an even higher premium, sort of like fair-trade organic coffee or handmade knitwear. “It’s not uncommon for things to be branded as bespoke, handmade, with stuff that’s competing with fast fashion and fast food,” she says. “People do pay a premium for hand crafted content of any sort. That could be a marketing point people connect with.”

Those who create AI porn, however, frame the future popularity of models like Claudia not as a hypothetical, but as an inevitability. “AI porn is going to only get more popular,” the computer scientists who made Claudia said in their last DM to Rolling Stone. “There will be more accounts like this.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sel ... 12835.html

[p0rtia]

Could you maybe split this up into two threads, Orly?

I am fascinated by AI produced images, and am over the moon about the recent posting of congressrats in drag--but I don't want to see sexy AI graphics at all. However you define sexy. Don't want to disenfranchise those who do want to see them, so, a split?


What do you think?

[Luke]

Sure! I've been thinking about how to do that... I'll keep this topic since it talks about the "virtual girlfriend" and "vitrual boyfriend" images that are being sold as actual people above, but I'll make another topic that's just about the AI graphics.

[p0rtia]

Sure! I've been thinking about how to do that... I'll keep this topic since it talks about the "virtual girlfriend" and "vitrual boyfriend" images that are being sold as actual people above, but I'll make another topic that's just about the AI graphics.

Thanks!

[Luke]

From VCR's to the widespread adoption of the web to now this, adult material is always the driver of new technology. That's why I created this topic. Government can never keep up with technological innovation. This is going to be an enormous problem: AI generated CP. Extremely disturbing and very, very difficult to stop it. Law enforcement, government and voluntary (or if necessary, mandatory) AI watermarking need to be addressed quickly. I'd even think this is something the UN should start dealing with.

AI-generated child sex images spawn new nightmare for the web
Investigators say the disturbing images could undermine efforts to find real-world victims
By Drew Harwell June 19, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EDT

The revolution in artificial intelligence has sparked an explosion of disturbingly lifelike images showing child sexual exploitation, fueling concerns among child-safety investigators that they will undermine efforts to find victims and combat real-world abuse. Generative-AI tools have set off what one analyst called a “predatory arms race” on pedophile forums because they can create within seconds realistic images of children performing sex acts, commonly known as child pornography.

Thousands of AI-generated child-sex images have been found on forums across the dark web, a layer of the internet visible only with special browsers, with some participants sharing detailed guides for how other pedophiles can make their own creations. “Children’s images, including the content of known victims, are being repurposed for this really evil output,” said Rebecca Portnoff, the director of data science at Thorn, a nonprofit child-safety group that has seen month-over-month growth of the images’ prevalence since last fall. “Victim identification is already a needle in a haystack problem, where law enforcement is trying to find a child in harm’s way,” she said. “The ease of using these tools is a significant shift, as well as the realism. It just makes everything more of a challenge.”

The flood of images could confound the central tracking system built to block such material from the web because it is designed only to catch known images of abuse, not detect newly generated ones. It also threatens to overwhelm law enforcement officials who work to identify victimized children and will be forced to spend time determining whether the images are real or fake. The images have also ignited debate on whether they even violate federal child-protection laws because they often depict children who don’t exist. Justice Department officials who combat child exploitation say such images still are illegal even if the child shown is AI-generated, but they could cite no case in which a suspect had been charged for creating one.

The new AI tools, known as diffusion models, allow anyone to create a convincing image solely by typing in a short description of what they want to see. The models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, were fed billions of images taken from the internet, many of which showed real children and came from photo sites and personal blogs. They then mimic those visual patterns to create their own images. The tools have been celebrated for their visual inventiveness and have been used to win fine-arts competitions, illustrate children’s books and spin up fake news-style photographs, as well as to create synthetic pornography of nonexistent characters who look like adults.

But they also have increased the speed and scale with which pedophiles can create new explicit images because the tools require less technical sophistication than past methods, such as superimposing children’s faces onto adult bodies using “deepfakes,” and can rapidly generate many images from a single command. It’s not always clear from the pedophile forums how the AI-generated images were made. But child-safety experts said many appeared to have relied on open-source tools, such as Stable Diffusion, which can be run in an unrestricted and unpoliced way. Stability AI, which runs Stable Diffusion, said in a statement that it bans the creation of child sex-abuse images, assists law enforcement investigations into “illegal or malicious” uses and has removed explicit material from its training data, reducing the “ability for bad actors to generate obscene content.”

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I'm in contact with some of the sources in this story. If anyone has any ideas about how/what to do to mitigate this, I'll forward them along. I've been involved since the 90's on these issues in a role that included creating Section 230 and the beginning of the internet's mass commercialization. Steve Case, founder of AOL, told me a super simple statement that's been true ever since: "It always takes longer than you expect, and then it happens faster than you expect". I know many here have broad and deep experience in IT and internet science and would appreciate your thoughts.

Tweeted it to the UN and UN Human Rights, the UN's Human Rights Counsel's 53rd session starts today.

[Foggy]

It's a brave new world ... and AI tech is still in its infancy ...

[bill_g]

Deep porn. Wonderful.

Next ...

[Foggy]

Next, of course, is ultra-violent porn.

A Clockwork Orange, come to reality.

And in all honesty, maybe a real Earthling will be spared some horror because it can be done virtually instead.

[bill_g]

Apparently you can/could get real life streaming monkey torture. There are some sick people out there.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-65951188