The Unstable Diffusion admins released a Discord bot to start. Powered by the vanilla Stable Diffusion, it let users generate porn by typing text prompts. But the results weren’t perfect: the nude figures the bot generated often had misplaced limbs and distorted genitalia.
The custom models power the aforementioned Discord bot and Unstable Diffusion’s work-in-progress, not-yet-public web app, which the admins say will eventually allow people to follow AI-generated porn from specific users.
Today, the Unstable Diffusion server hosts AI-generated porn in a range of different art styles, sexual preferences and kinks. There’s a “men-only” channel, a softcore and “safe for work” stream, channels for hentai and furry artwork, a BDSM and “kinky things” subgroup — and even a channel reserved expressly for “nonhuman” nudes. Users in these channels can invoke the bot to generate art that fits the theme, which they can then submit to a “starboard” if they’re especially pleased with the results.
The creator of the AI porn star then replaced Tabar's face with the face of "Amy Marie Richards" and reposted the video to its Instagram account, which promotes its Fanvue page and an AI sex chat bot.
Up to now, Meta’s attempts - like launching virtual personas such as Carter the Playboy, the writer “Austen,” and a Black mom (another instance of “virtual blackface”) - have been disastrous. They were unsettling at best and remained firmly stuck in the “uncanny valley.” When it comes to erotica, though, we’re more forgiving of a bot’s imperfections. And the fact that porn bots are thriving, or that many people have already developed emotional connections to ChatGPT, alongside the popularity of various virtual influencers, suggests that what some media outlets currently ridicule could become the norm tomorrow. The danger is that while we enjoy the upsides of a deliberately artificial companion - something that could indeed have positive aspects - someone behind the curtain may be shaping our choices.
