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    AI in the adult industry: porn may soon feature people who don't exist

    Porn has often driven technological innovation, but research into deepfakes raises questions about its potential misuses
    by Katie Bishop Feb 07, 2020 4 minutes
    ‘Pornography has been the driving force behind technological advances for the past three decades,’ said Hany Farid, a computer science professor. Photograph: Seyed Morteza Shakeri/Getty Images/EyeEm

    A professional headshot of a man with his face carefully poised in a neutral expression, the kind that might be used in an acting portfolio. A teenage girl with red hair and glasses, pouting at the camera against an outdoor backdrop. These photographs are the sort that saturate our online world, ones that you might find on a Facebook profile or LinkedIn page. The only difference? These people don’t exist. They are the product of an algorithm, a network of images competing against each other to create convincing fakes – and that they could soon replace pictures of real people in everything from the profiles that we match with on dating apps to the bodies that we watch

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