A GAN Makes Vaginas
In doing so, it steals IP and co-opts labia.
People have used General Adversarial Networks (GANs, AI tech that uses numerous real images to create fabricated ones) to generate convincing pictures of humans, hamsters, and fine artworks. This man used a GAN to make vaginas.
David Mack, a CA-based tech cofounder who appears to specialize in design and AI, carried out his vaginal experiment earlier this year after deciding to he should try and create porn using AI. His attempt didn’t go well. After feeding the GAN 200,000 porn images, it produced grotesque nonsense, humanoids with mutilated sex organs.
So Mack narrowed his focus to vaginas, thinking that would create more realistic pictures. He was sort of right. Still, Mack’s conclusion was that he’d better abandon the idea of creating AI porn to try and save people from the “harmful” industry.
Gustavo Turner wrote about Mack’s experiment for adult industry publication XBIZ and pointed out that Mack had “zero concern” for the IP of porn production companies he’d stolen images from, let alone the “actual women” whose vaginas he’d used. The ignorance inherent in a tech cofounder trying to “fix” an industry he knows nothing about aside, the project brings up questions about where the images that feed GANs come from. Whose IP is being stolen? Whose labia?
