Future of Sex
tagline
  • Remote Sex
  • Virtual Sex & Entertainment
  • Robots
  • Human Augmentation
  • Sex Tech
  • Dating & Relationships
  • Bizarre Bazaar 18+
  • Future of Sex Community
  • Remote Sex
  • Virtual Sex & Entertainment
  • Robots
  • Human Augmentation
  • Sex Tech
  • Dating & Relationships
  • Bizarre Bazaar 18+
  • Future of Sex Community
  • How Learning from 2020 Can Give Us Sexier, Healthier Sex Lives in 2021

  • Designers Unveil Wildly Creative Fashions for Pandemic Living

  • This Stroker Gives Female-like Orgasms to Trans People and Men

  • Lora DiCarlo Responds to WOW Tech Group’s ‘Pleasure Air Technology’ Patent Claims

  • Sex Tech in 2021: What Industry Leaders Expect in the Year Ahead

  • VDOM’s ‘Cyber Penis’ Evolves Wearable Sex Tech for All Genders

  • When Will Male Sex Toys Go Mainstream?

  • The ‘Virtual Girlfriend’ Experience: AI Love Doll Sends Racy Pics and Texts

Future of Sex is supported by our readers. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Home > Robots > Actors’ Union Says It Will ‘Fight Back’ Against Porn Deepfakes

RobotsSex Tech
Home›Robots›Actors’ Union Says It Will ‘Fight Back’ Against Porn Deepfakes

Actors’ Union Says It Will ‘Fight Back’ Against Porn Deepfakes

By M. Christian
May 15, 2018
4514
4

Already stars like Gal Gadot and Cara Delevingne are victims of nonconsensual face swapping. 

The Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) recently made a bold statement against deepfakes, a technique that uses artificial intelligence to digitally impose an actors’ likenesses into a film without permission.

As reported by Deadline Hollywood, the president of SAG-AFTRA, Gabrielle Carteris, wrote in the union’s monthly magazine that it has “undertaken an exhaustive review of our collective bargaining options and legislative options to combat any and all uses of digital re-creations, not limited to deepfakes, that defame our members and inhibit their ability to protect their images, voices and performances from misappropriation.”

Potentially unpleasant and inappropriate digital forms

Carteris is specific about these unauthorized uses, using examples of “in advertisements, products, merchandise, company branding, fake news, movies, video games, or pornography.”

The use of deepfake technology to create non consensual erotic content is considered particularly shameful. At the beginning of the letter, singled out this practice, explaining the AI technique “has the ability to steal our images and superimpose them onto another person’s body in potentially unpleasant and inappropriate digital forms.”

What are deepfakes?

The technology, named after an anonymous Reddit user who was one of the first to create deepfakes, has its roots in pornography. In fact, the first deepfake experiments involved digitally replacing the face of an adult actress in and X-rated film with that of Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot.

Many others have since begun using the technology, leading to sites such as Twitter, Reddit, and Pornhub attempting to ban the practice—though there is much debate about the effectiveness of such bans.

Revenge porn 2.0?


Meanwhile, SAG-AFTRA is clearly not going to just sit back on the issue. In the same letter, Carteris outlines the action plan to legally combat deepfakes:

“We are talking with our members’ representatives, union allies, and with state and federal legislators about this issue right now and have legislation pending in New York and Louisiana that would address this directly in certain circumstances. We also are analyzing state laws in other jurisdictions, including California, to make sure protections are in place.”

Now that this technological genie is out of the bottle, it might prove extremely difficult to control or eliminate its use. That being said, an industry regulation is already in place that could act as a model: the shutting down and blocking of revenge porn sites.

While laws against the sites are slow to come, especially in the United States, in 2015 Microsoft and Google both began blocking revenge porn sites from their search engines.

Other countries, though, have been active in making such sites illegal. For example, the Dutch police recently shut down the revenge porn site Anon-IB, taking into custody those involved in running it.

Whether the abuse of deepfake technology will lead to actions similar to those taken against revenge porn sites is anyone’s guess. But SAG-AFTRA’s strong stance against it is a clear warning to people who produce it or just allow it on their sites.

Image sources: Gage Skidmore, Brian Turner

M. Christian

M.Christian loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer he has six novels,12 collections,100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to his name. His non-fiction regularly appears n many sites, but he’s most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of his erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing he can't write about … and brilliantly.”

Reflecting his unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, his stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. His collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of his stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, his fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sextech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—his ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with his friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, he’s lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.

M.Christian's Books (Sizzler Editions)
M.Christian's Audiobooks
Previous Article

Can Sexbots Save Marriages by Taking the ...

Next Article

The Rainbow of Gender: The Future of ...

Related articles More from author

  • Sex Tech

    Nigeria’s First Sex Toy Retailer Encourages Sex-Positive Intimacy

    February 28, 2017
    By Jasmine van den Hoek
  • nogrey
    Dating & RelationshipsSex Tech

    Negotiate Consent for BDSM on Your Smartphone with the NoGrey App

    February 26, 2020
    By Miss Doll
  • Robots

    The Controversial Campaign to Save Underage Sex Dolls and Sexbots

    October 2, 2019
    By Eva Duncanson
  • RobotsSex Tech

    Programmable Matter: The Future of Transformable Sex Toys

    May 16, 2017
    By M. Christian
  • Using Sexbots To Cope With Pandemic
    Dating & RelationshipsRobots

    Lonely Lovers Are Turning to Sex Dolls to Satisfy Their Pandemic ‘Skin Hunger’

    August 12, 2020
    By M. Christian
  • Sx Tech logo
    Sex Tech

    Play Vulva Bingo and Meet AI Robots at Sx Tech’s Virtual Event This Friday

    November 23, 2020
    By M. Christian

  • Robots

    10 Ways to Personalize Your Love Dolls and Sexbots

  • Dating & RelationshipsRemote Sex

    How Tech Is Transforming Long-distance Relationships

  • MarrySiri
    Remote Sex

    Can Siri Control Your Sex Life?

  • TOP REVIEWS

  • Realistic Sex Games

    Review of the Best Most Realistic Sex Games You Can Play [UPDATED]

    0
  • Multiplayer Online Sex Games

    Review of the Best Massively Multiplayer Online Sex Games

    0
  • Sex Games for Mac

    The Best Sex Games for Mac

    0
  • Best Sex Game Apps for Couples

    The Best Sex Game Apps for Couples for 2020 [Updated]

    0
  • The Best RPG Sex Games of 2020

    0

Like Us on Facebook

Latest Tweets

  • Future of Sex writer @marcuskdowling speaks to @wearehpg CEO Dominnique Karetsos on how self-expression via sex tec… https://t.co/OYSoXQjFN8

    3 hours ago
  • "Last year showed how important it is to maintain health and emotional balance and it couldn't be a better time to… https://t.co/9lAnFDeCMl

    14 hours ago
  • Wildly creative designers unveil unique and outlandish fashions made to keep you safe while still getting your haut… https://t.co/J6MHqmrhF7

    20 hours ago
  • The new Ion stroker from @Arcwaveofficial excites pleasure receptors in the frenulum to give the sensation of femal… https://t.co/r6DjPo3Flr

    Jan 16, 2021
  • In a press statement, @LoraDiCarlo_HQ denies claims of patent infringement, alleging the aim of WOW Tech Group's la… https://t.co/9en8yormEy

    Jan 16, 2021
Follow @futureofsex

Follow us

  • Home
  • About
  • ADVERTISE
  • Contribute
  • Story Ideas?
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions
© 2011 - 2020 Future Exploration Network
This website or its third-party tools use cookies to improve user experience and track affiliate sales. To learn more about why we need to use cookies, please refer to the Privacy Policy.

By clicking the agree button or continuing to browse through the website, you agree to the use of cookies. Accept Privacy Policy
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled

Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.

Non-necessary