In 1998 – before Google, Facebook, or before any of the internet giants became giants – a patent was filed in the US (US6368268) by a company called HasSex that covered “a method and device for interactive virtual control of sexual aids using digital computer networks.” In 2002, the patent was granted, and in the […]
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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 […]
A San Francisco City attorney has launched what he calls a “first-of-its-kind” lawsuit against 16 so-called ‘nudify’ websites and apps, that allegedly use AI to allow you to create non-consensual deepfake content of real women. Attorney David Chiu announced the lawsuit, which has been filed against sites and apps based both in the US and […]
