It's Time to Worry About AI Video Technology

It's a widely known (if little discussed) fact that the adult film industry often serves as a pioneer for video technology. It was the industry's early backing of VHS that helped to bury Betamax and its embrace of Blu-ray that helped shovel dirt over rival HD-DVD. So we should all take notice of a series of reports in Motherboard about the emergence of a new type of adult video technology--only this format doesn't have the imprimatur of established adult filmmakers or tech companies behind it. Instead, it's the brainchild of coders working with machine learning tools to swap the faces of adult actresses with those of established Hollywood celebrities. These so-called "deep fakes" are growing in popularity, Motherboard notes.