A mistrial was declared in the case of the founders of the website Backpage on Tuesday 14 September 2021, after a judge ruled that US government prosecutors tainted the jury by focusing too closely on child sex trafficking. Michael Lacey and James Larkin, co-founders of the US adult advertising website, were on trial on federal […]
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The landscape of erotic imagery is undergoing a seismic shift. Artificial intelligence (AI) has entered the bedroom, not as a robotic lover, but as a powerful tool for generating hyper-realistic and customized ai-generated pornography. This development is not only disrupting the adult entertainment industry but also sparking a fierce debate about its artistic merit, ethical […]
A lawmaker has proposed a bill in Texas that would ban the sale of sex toys in business establishments deemed not to be “sexually orientated”, including supermarkets and pharmacies. The bill, HB 1549, was proposed by Republican state representative Hillary Hickland. It would see fines of up to $5,000 imposed if a company was found […]
The efforts of some major search engines to crack down on nonconsensual deepfake porn have arguably been undermined by a news investigation showing that they can point users to tutorials explaining how to make deepfakes. An investigation by Glamour Magazine showed that Google, Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo search also pointed users of the search engines […]
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 […]
