A recent market research report predicts the Global Adult Entertainment Market will grow from USD 172.5 Billion in 2023 to 267.3 Billion by 2031. For companies in the adult industry, staying up to date on technology is necessary to achieve such growth. Typically, the traditional venues for entertainment are unavailable to the adult entertainment industry, so innovation is essential to get the content to the consumer.
From the first adult film release in 1897 to the recent innovations in artificial intelligence, the adult industry has quickly adopted newly developed gadgets and technology. People are willing to pay a premium for adult content in print, in film, on camera, in VHS and DVDs, computer games, cable TV, pay-per-view, etc.
Online streaming video, credit-card verification sites, Web referral rings, and video technology like Flash can be traced back to innovations designed to share and sell adult content.
Websites requiring membership, encryption coding, and faster file-sharing technology can trace their roots to the adult industry.
What’s the latest technology initiative that adult industry members are investing in? The potential of artificial intelligence or AI advancements in the adult industry.
AI Generation in Adult Industry Content
Automated content creation. Artificial intelligence systems can recognize words, understand how they’re used grammatically, and understand meanings change depending on the context. AI has enabled better web search, predictive text apps, chatbots, etc. Some of these systems can produce original text that is tough to distinguish from human-produced text.
ChatGPT AI systems can search, moderate, and filter information online and collate it into sentences and paragraphs that resemble human-written text. A user can type a command into the ChatGPT search box to write an article about anything, and the system will generate an article.
AI Innovations Enhance the User Experience and Interactivity
Adult entertainment often drives technological advancement to increase user satisfaction. The latest AI advancement, Machine learning (AI,) is now used to transform the sex experience in everything from video to sex chat.
Personalization and recommendation. Streaming TV services offer personalized recommendations for TV shows and movies based on user streaming habits using artificial intelligence. Companies in the adult film industry are working on AI algorithms in artificial intelligence systems to recommend films based on adult industry platform user browsing and buying habits.
Chatbots. AI-powered chatbots can allow users to engage in audio erotica with characters from erotic novels. Companies like Bloom Chat have trained AI algorithms to simulate erotic voices and replicate characters’ personalities from hundreds of stories in several languages.
A Virtual companion can provide companionship and emotional support to users without the physical risk of a human partner. AI algorithms can be trained to recognize what turns a person on, how to read a mood, and a person’s reaction from previous experiences fed into the algorithms. The more experiences the algorithm absorbs, the better the user experience.
Adult Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR): enhance immersive experiences in the adult industry. AI-generated porn stars are computer creations that look, talk, and exchange messages like real people. AI-generated porn stars are part of the new wave in the adult industry. AI is not new to porn stars. Many porn stars already use elements of AI to make themselves look different in their photos and videos.
Generative AI-powered systems like Stable Diffusion, image-generation software that translates user text prompts to pictures, are used by brands and artists to create images, award-winning (and sometimes controversial) printings, and marketing campaigns.
Some users have been testing them for a different use: porn.
The legal and financial risks will increase as Generative AI advancement creates more valuable adult products and experiences.
Challenges in the Use of AI in the Adult Industry
Security. Most lawsuits about Generative Artificial intelligence center on AI in data security. Several visual artists filed a class-action lawsuit against the companies that created the image generators Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DreamUp, all of which generate images based on user text prompts. The case alleges that the AI tools violate copyrights by scraping images from the internet to train the AI models.
Privacy. Artificial intelligence is used in adult entertainment to misrepresent or take advantage of pictures of celebrities and individuals who did not consent to their use. Referred to as “deepfakes” or “deepnudes,” photos of the faces of real people have been fed into AI algorithms to learn and create realistic images that can be photoshopped into adult videos, making it seem as if the person is performing in those videos.
Methods Used to Combat Security and Privacy Challenges
In 2019, Facebook began employing AI to find and flag non-consensually shared inappropriate images.
Many companies are beginning to integrate AI monitoring systems into their operations, requiring written indemnifications from their data and service providers to protect themselves from legal liability.
Additionally, various companies use technology systems to protect user identities and data. Examples include the following:
- Facial recognition systems provide authentication and facial verification to confirm an individual’s identity.
- Biometric authentication involves recording a person’s physical characteristics to identify individuals.
- Another security method, known as Tokenization, used to secure sensitive data, replaces original data with an unrelated “token” of the same length and format.
AI Advances in Payments and Customer Data in the Adult Industry
Artificial intelligence has provided the adult industry with significant insights into user behavior, preferences, and shifts in market trends. Digital advancements in Data analytics allow such data to provide substantial growth and profitability to companies in the industry. As adult industry expansion continues, businesses in this industry face increasing challenges in protecting their customer’s privacy and financial transaction information.
Payment processors like Segpay have emerged as a critical tool that benefits companies in this high-risk industry. Benefits offered by Segpay Payment Processors include the following:
Acceptance of a wide variety of payment methods. We can accept credit cards, digital wallets, cryptocurrency, and online payments to make purchasing adult products and services more accessible for customers worldwide.
Ensure privacy and discretion. We protect sensitive customer data through a 256-bit encryption technology that provides a confidential and secure payment transaction environment. Customers would be more likely to buy from businesses offering secure payment options.
Fraud Detection and Prevention. We offer payment fraud detection and prevention methods to minimize chargebacks, a significant concern in this high-risk industry. Advanced algorithms can identify suspicious transactions and prevent unauthorized credit card use, thus reducing transaction disputes.
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