Reid isn't suggesting porn, the medium, will be left behind (just the opposite, really). She wants to make sure that porn, the people who make up the industry, are able to reap the benefits of AI. She wants to make sure at the very least that some unaffiliated AI project isn't just stealing these people's work, names, likenesses, etc., and selling it.
While I see her point, I think her point will fail.
An avid follower, 'connoisseur' if you prefer, of say Riley Reid may well recognise that she, or parts of her, are not real in whatever they are watching.
But if they do not care but they like what they see they will be back for more.
Her reaction is the same as mainstream actors concerned about voice reproduction, likeness reproduction and more.
One day (famous actor) will die. Later, they will headline a movie that people rave about. They are not dead yet, but ABBA Voyage.
Audrey Hepburn is long dead, but a certain chocolate brand exploits her.
AI will exploit those in entertainment because there is money there.
The question about who gets paid when I buy that program is going to take decades, maybe a lifetime to settle.
Edit: I think the closest approximation of a solution to the compensation/control questions re digital content in an age of on-demand generative AI will involve content creators of all stripes self-hosting and self-publishing to make it easy for fans to directly patronize. Trying to stop clones is a fool’s errand.
Yep. This is one of the many things that I detest about how this technology will inevitably be used.
I have a problem with it at a deep level. It appears that the things about these technologies that excite people the most are those things that are direct attacks on reality. It's bad enough that large segments of society is already in a place where truth doesn't matter. Now comes tools to make it possible that reality itself doesn't matter anymore.
Sounds like thinly veiled ludditism to me, why would it be necessary for AI porn to steal anybody’s likeness? I’m sure the 100% generated content is fine without any need for that.
It’s hard to drum up any sympathy for such an exploitative industry (exploitative for both the participants and the customers). Am I supposed to care that pornographers ability to profit of their unhealthy and addictive product is in jeopardy?
Just look at what people currently do with the models. You already see a lot of deepfake attempts. This will only increase as the technology improves. If you can generate a scene from scratch people will ask it to generate a full porn movie with the actor/actress of their choice.
> It’s hard to drum up any sympathy for such an exploitative industry (exploitative for both the participants and the customers).
I think if you care about an actor losing income over AI generated works, you would naturally care about a porn actor losing income over this. Especially when the AI used your work as training data and might reproduce your likeness without you getting anything out of it. I can understand the dislike for the industry because parts of it prey on the weak to make money.
If we make a legal framework for movie actors it should also apply to pron actors.
Currently, people either make content with entirely generated personas, or make deepfake content of people who are not porn actresses at all. I've been following the commentary around this topic, and I've never even heard of somebody using AI to generate porn of people who are already porn actresses.
> I think if you care about an actor losing income over AI generated works, you would naturally care about a porn actor losing income over this.
In general I don't care about people losing their jobs to new technology. I do support the actors who were being strong-armed permanently signing away the rights to their likeness, and I sympathise with them, because what they do is valuable for society.
Apart from to the extent to which they themselves are exploited, I have no sympathy at all for pornography industry participants. What they do is detrimental to society, and generally revolves around exploiting their customers, especially the weird new parasocial only-fans model.
So none of the reasons why I might care about the actors union complaints apply to the porn industry.
> If we make a legal framework for movie actors it should also apply to pron actors.
There already is a legal framework for managing this. It is called personality rights or the right of publicity. There's no need at all for any new laws to regulate this.