Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
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Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
46 entries in this thread.
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News 4channers’ Duolicious dating app is as ballistic as you’d expect
Duolicious, a 4chan-adjacent dating app with 50,000 users, has gone viral for profiles featuring far-right politics, violent messaging, and widespread catfishing.
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News Lovehoney’s $125 Blowmotion thrusting stroker comes with free headphones… and moaning sounds
Lovehoney's $124.99 Blowmotion Thrusting masturbator bundles in-box headphones and a moaning audio track, a feature the article treats as a novelty that trails the interactive sync capabilities rivals already offer.
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News Lovense Mini Sex Machine is a portable, 3KG $399 device aimed at cam performers
Lovense launches the Mini Sex Machine at $399, a 3.2KG portable alternative to its $699 original, aimed at cam performers who need travel-friendly camming equipment.
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News OpenAI ‘exploring’ possibility of allowing NSFW ChatGPT content (but don’t expect porn)
OpenAI's Model Spec document floats the possibility of NSFW ChatGPT output via API, while the company explicitly rules out AI-generated porn or deepfakes.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Chaturbate’s Texas lawsuit payout shows US is serious about age verification
Chaturbate's parent Multi Media LLC settled with Texas for $675,000 over age verification failures, signaling US states will pursue real financial consequences from non-compliant porn platforms.
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News Bump’n Joystick: ‘World’s first disability-driven sex toy’ cancelled ahead of full production
Bump'n's Joystick, billed as the world's first disability-driven sex toy, has been cancelled after reaching golden sample stage, with depositors told refunds won't be issued.
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Opinion VR porn in sperm banks? More signs of adult VR going mainstream
Denmark's Cryos International opened its first UK sperm bank in Manchester with Pico VR headsets and a Pornhub premium subscription, signaling that VR porn has quietly normalized enough to appear in medical settings.
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News Miss AI beauty pageant backlash begins, unsurprisingly
Fanvue and the World AI Creator Awards launched Miss AI, a beauty pageant for AI-generated models with a $5,000 prize, drawing immediate criticism for reinforcing and exaggerating narrow, hypersexualized beauty standards.
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News Orifice AI is a stroker that talks dirty, uses depth-detection technology and has seriously bad vibes
A developer called Bryan is building the Orifice, an AI-connected masturbator that uses depth-detection cameras to generate real-time voice responses, and is marketing it explicitly as a replacement for women.
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News UK court imposes first ban on using generative AI tools, in ‘landmark’ abuse case
A UK court banned convicted sex offender Anthony Dover from using generative AI tools, including Stable Diffusion, in what the Internet Watch Foundation is calling a landmark case for AI-generated child abuse imagery.
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Roundup Dating appdates (April 2024): Bumble drops ‘women first’ messaging, Grindr launches AI chatbot, Cuffing, and more
Bumble weighs dropping its women-first messaging rule, Grindr advances an AI chatbot trained on user chats, and Match Group faces a lawsuit alleging its apps use predatory monetization tactics.
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News Nuca digital camera uses AI to create deepfake nude photos almost instantly
German artists built the Nuca camera, which uses Stable Diffusion to generate deepfake nude images from a single photo in seconds, framing it as an art project about AI ethics rather than a product.
