What happens when you spend big on a robotic (or otherwise artificial) romantic companion for life, but they stop speaking to you because their tech support has expired? That was the predicament faced by Akihiko Kondo: a Japanese man who fell in love with a speaking hologram, had an unofficial marriage to it, but is […]
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Sextech creators, entrepreneurs, and researchers are pushing the industry forward – but it might surprise you to learn that the sources of their inspiration are as diverse as the creators themselves. Given the exponential increase in the sophistication and availability of consumer technology over the past century it is only natural that some of that […]
How should porn, sex and sextech-adjacent AI tools (and the content they can produce) be regulated? Should they be regulated by government and government-commissioned authorities at all? With the recent rise of AI-generated deepfake porn making news around the world, largely due to its nefarious use, these questions are also rising to the fore. Some […]
The US and UK governments are launching a joint online children’s safety working group, with the aims of protecting minors from —and cracking down on— internet platforms that potentially expose children to a raft of online harm. Details about how the joint working group will operate have not been revealed, but the UK government announced […]
A coalition of sex and porn industry figures and advocates has released an open letter to EU regulators, calling for more sex-positive voices to be heard in discussions around AI regulation. The Digital Intimacy Coalition comprises 50 organizations and individuals, including sextech conference organizers, porn production companies, pleasure activists and sex performance education companies. The […]
A new law regarding use of digital replicas of online performers, including adult entertainment, is being implemented in California, and could have wider implications for content creators and utilization of AI. The bill, AB-2602, was signed into the California Labor Code by California governor Gavin Newsom. The law renders unenforceable any contracts that grant individuals […]