People have been panicking about AI lately. But should they? Is there really anything to worry about? Yes, that’s true, even in porn.
Economist Richard Baldwin said: “AI will not take your job. Someone using AI will take your job.” Those were powerful words, and you really need to think about them.
Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. It’s going to become part of your life, just like the calculator becomes part of everyday life. Many years ago, people had to calculate things by hand. Can you imagine it?
Today we think of the calculator as an everyday thing: sliced bread. But when it first came out, it was a big deal. Have you taken jobs? Not really. It just made the jobs of those who used it a lot easier.
Artificial intelligence is like that. It’s not going anywhere, but it will change the way we do things, and yes, that means even in porn.
But before you panic, let me quote the now infamous Ben Afflick chat on AI.
Speaking at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha 2024 investor summit, Affleck also expressed support for AI, but said it couldn’t possibly replace “humans making movies.”
When asked whether AI should be seen as a threat, he said:
“Movies will be one of the last things that, if everything is replaced, will be replaced by AI.
AI can write you an excellent, imitative verse that sounds Elizabethan. It can’t write you Shakespeare. What AI will do is take apart the labor-intensive, less creative, and more expensive aspects of filmmaking, allowing costs to be lowered, which will lower the barrier to entry, allowing more voices to be heard, allowing more voices to be heard. make it easier for the people who want to make ‘Good Will Huntings’ to go out and make it.
“That’s basically how large video models and large language models work. Library of meaning vectors and transformers that interpret them in context, right? But they only cross things that exist. Nothing new is created.
AI for this world of generative video is going to do more important things, which means: I wouldn’t like to work in the visual effects world, they’re in trouble. Because what costs a lot of money will now cost a lot less. And it will take up that space and it already does, and it may not take a thousand people to display something, but it won’t replace the people who make movies.”
One day there will be AI porn movies, but not today and not anytime soon.
I’ll show you why.
This is an AI-generated image of Sophie Dee. She looks great, right?
That photo may seem beautiful, but here’s the thing. Sophie Dee doesn’t look like her at all anymore. That photo was trained on a dataset of Sophie Dee photos from ten years ago.
She’s old. Improved and looks very different today. This is actually what she looks like today.
This is one of the shortcomings of AI. A person grows older. A person changes her hair color and hairstyle. A person can get one or ten tattoos. Maybe she’ll get breast implants.
And that will make her look different.
AI can only imitate what it has been trained on.
Sophie Dee is a real person, so she’s going to change. She’s getting older.
And AI cannot (yet) explain those things.
The first image I showed you, based on what Sophie Dee looked like ten years ago, looks great. But as you can see, she doesn’t look like that anymore, so how relevant is that Sophie Dee AI model today?
Generating AI videos is even more complicated and that’s one of the many reasons why the technology isn’t quite ready yet and may be one of the last things to be affected by AI.
It’s not likely that you’ll see lifelike recreations of porn stars in video for years to come.
Is it possible? Certainly. One day. But not today and not anytime soon.
