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Porn—at the forefront of the AI-generated content revolution—is something the rest of media should, uh, watch
December 16, 2025
TVRev's Alan Wolk makes the case that where porn goes, so goes all content categories. He says that “Porn has long been the canary in the coal mine for any new technology.”
- Almost as soon as Gutenberg invented the printing press it was used for “bawdy pamphlets”
- Porn producers made use of VHS before Hollywood did
- Porn was an early adapter to streaming; Wolk says “it accounted for between one-third and one-half of all traffic" in the early days
- Of the top 15 websites world-wide, 2 are porn sites.
A long article in the Economist raises existential questions that are not only for the porn industry.
- Will performers be “elbowed aside by algorithms?”
- If synthetic properties become ubiquitous, will anyone pay for the old-fashioned stuff?
Read the full articles: The Future Of AI and AI is upending the porn industry: Synthetic smut will soon be flooding the internet, bringing new opportunities and perils
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