Science Programmer builds AI algorithm to ‘expose’ adult actresses - find out if you can watch your ex on pornhub, 100k found and counting

Yesterday, Yiqin Fu, a research associate at Yale University, tweeted a thread about a Chinese programmer who had claimed he had built an algorithm that had identified 100,000 adult actresses by cross-referencing footage from porn videos with social media profile pictures. Using this tool, they hope to help others check whether their girlfriends have ever acted in pornographic films.

A Germany-based Chinese programmer said he and some friends have identified 100k porn actresses from around the world, cross-referencing faces in porn videos with social media profile pictures. The goal is to help others check whether their girlfriends ever acted in those films. pic.twitter.com/TOuUBTqXOP



— Yiqin Fu (@yiqinfu) May 28, 2019

The facial recognition reportedly tool took half a year to build and has over 100 terabytes of video data pulled from sites including Pornhub, 91, 1024, sex8, and xvideos. This was compared against profile pictures from Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Weibo, and others.

When the software was first announced, it had around 1,000 comments — most expressing their excitement about the service with replies like “A true blessing for us credulous programmers,” “When can we use it?,” and “Wtf I love the tech future now.”

On the thread, Fu noted that the most up-voted comment asked if the OP plans on identifying the men in porn videos to which he replied how he’s open to the idea. But for legal reasons, he said he may have to “anonymize the data” before letting people query the database.

This isn’t the first time someone has used AI to identify faces in porn. In 2017, Pornhub announced that it was using machine learning and facial recognition to detect over 10,000 porn stars across the site in an effort to make it easier for users to find content they like. At the time, Motherboard argued the development was a privacy nightmare waiting to happen.

But unlike Pornhub, the intent here is much more ill-conceived. Porn stars often rely on pseudonyms to shield off their personal matters from their stage personas. From that perspective, cross-referencing porn videos with social media content could seriously endanger this boundary.

The programmer who built the tool was also asked whether he knew what sort of legal jeopardy he could be in. But claimed that everything was legal because he hasn’t shared any data or opened up the database to outside queries, and sex work is currently legal in Germany, where he’s based.

While this technology has the potential to find victims of human trafficking or other forms of sexual exploitations, that’s not the intent here. Rather, it’s a weapon for shaming women and stripping them of their privacy. One user on Fu’s thread tweeted how it won’t be long until people abuse this service to find porn stars that look similar to people they know in real life. That, combined with the sophistication of AI-generated ‘deepfake’ videos, proves the future is truly a horrific place to be a woman.



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"Whether the Weibo user’s claims are trustworthy or not is beside the point, now that experts in feminist studies and machine learning have decried this project as algorithmically-targeted harassment. "

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DIY Facial Recognition for Porn Is a Dystopian Disaster
Someone is making dubious claims to have built a program for detecting faces in porn and cross-referencing against social media, with 100,000 identified so far.
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May 29 2019, 9:11am
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Someone posting on Chinese social network Weibo claims to have used facial recognition to cross-reference women’s photos on social media with faces pulled from videos on adult platforms like Pornhub.

In a Monday post on Weibo, the user, who says he's based in Germany, claimed to have “successfully identified more than 100,000 young ladies” in the adult industry “on a global scale.”

To be clear, the user has posted no proof that he’s actually been able to do this, and hasn’t published any code, databases, or anything else besides an empty GitLab page to verify this is real. When Motherboard contacted the user over Weibo chat, he said they will release “database schema” and “technical details” next week, and did not comment further.

Still, his post has gone viral in both China on Weibo and in the United States on Twitter after a Stanford political science PhD candidate tweeted them with translations, which Motherboard independently verified. This has led prominent activists and academics to discuss the potential implications of the technology.

According to Weibo posts, the user and some of his programming friends used facial recognition to detect faces in porn content using photos from social platforms. His reasoning for making this program, he wrote, is “to have the right to know on both sides of the marriage.” After public outcry, he later claimed his intention was to allow women, with or without their fiancées, to check if they are on porn sites and to send a copyright takedown request.

"This is horrendous and a pitch-perfect example of how these systems, globally, enable male dominance," Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her, tweeted on Tuesday about the alleged project. "Surveillance, impersonation, extortion, misinformation all happen to women first and then move to the public sphere, where, once men are affected, it starts to get attention."



Whether the Weibo user’s claims are trustworthy or not is beside the point, now that experts in feminist studies and machine learning have decried this project as algorithmically-targeted harassment. This kind of program’s existence is both possible and frightening, and has started a conversation around whether such a program would be an ethically or legally responsible use of AI.

Just as we saw with deepfakes, which used AI to swap the faces of female celebrities onto the bodies of porn performers, the use of machine learning to control and extort women's bodily autonomy demonstrates deep misogyny. It's a threat that didn't begin with deepfakes, but certainly reached a public sphere with that technology—although in the years since, women have been left behind in the mainstream narrative, which has focused on the technology’s possible use for disinformation.

Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland who's studied the aftermath of deepfakes, also tweeted about this new claim on Weibo. "This is a painfully bad idea—surveillance and control of women’s bodies taken to new low," she wrote.

What he claims to have done is theoretically possible for someone with a decent amount of machine learning and programming knowledge, given enough time and computing power, though it would be a huge effort with no guarantee of quality.

The ability to create a database of faces like this, and deploy facial recognition to target and expose women within it, has been within consumer-level technological reach for some time.

In 2017, Pornhub proudly announced new facial recognition features that it claimed would make it easier for users to find their favorite stars—and, in turn, theoretically easier for abusers or harassers to find their targets. As I wrote at the time:

Even if Pornhub deploys this technology in an ethical way, its existence should be concerning. Such technology is unlikely to stay proprietary for long, and given that some people on the internet make a habit of identifying amateur or unwitting models, the underlying tech could supercharge some of these efforts.

In 2018, online trolls started compiling databases of sex workers, in order to threaten and out them. This harassment campaign had real-life consequences, with some sex workers having their payment processors or social media platforms shut down.

What this Weibo programmer is claiming to have built is a combination of these two ideas: A misogynistic, abusive attempt at controlling women. Whether it's real or not, it's representative of the dark paths where machine learning technology—and some of the societal toxicity around it—has taken us.
Jordan Pearson contributed reporting to this story.


original tweet that "broke" this story. The comments are a gold mine
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If you love someone, like really love, then it should not matter one fucking inch what they've done in the past, unless it's some truly heinous shit like raping kids or something. Doing porn is quite normal, after all.
I found out the other day that some black bulls ran a train on my girlfriend and she put it on PornHub.

At first, I was pretty pissed off by this.

But then, I realized that those black bulls were probably happier to make my girlfriend airtight than I was sad about staying home alone jerking off that night. The total happiness in the world increased.

So, whatever.
 
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This must be the most pathetic use of computers to date. If you like someone enough that you would consider serious relationship with him/her, you're just and idiot to pass that because of something that person has done in the past. All in all, having "deal breakers" for the attributes of your partner is dumbest shit I've ever heard. If you love someone, like really love, then it should not matter one fucking inch what they've done in the past, unless it's some truly heinous shit like raping kids or something. Doing porn is quite normal, after all.

So there can not be and never will be dealbreakers when it comes to actual, real love? Such as her having a black baby when you are both white, having done her 11 year old cousin when she was 31, being in debt 15 million because of massive creditcard fraud which you can be held accountable for in (common law) marriage? Well in case of porn at least that will be an interesting christmas when you gather around the tv with the family to watch some of her best videos. "Look mom, here she has 6 guys and none of em wore a rubber, all balls deep! I am so proud of her!" "Hey dad, would you like to have a go with my fiancee? Only €1K a scene! Call uncle Steve. Let me go grab my GoPro..."

Either you are that naïve or you are baiting people. Past behaviour shows the type of person and future behaviour. For me, that means no pornstars, politicians or divorce lawyers, that is just unacceptable.

If pornstars can do whatever they want and there should be no consequences it should go for a lot more types of jobs, the yakuza needs its hitmen too.
 
Because the data says the more sexual partners a woman has, the less happy her marriage will be. Some fun things those studies found:



If you're going to get into a serious relationship with a woman, you should know whether the odds of you both being unhappy are higher. Swearing a lifelong commitment to another person's happiness, with someone who has already stacked the deck against you, is a risk worth worrying over (and that's outside the usual STD or blowback issues that comes with dating a promiscuous person).
LO fucking L, what a dumb fucking study. Have you considered that since the study was meant to prove that women who have more sex are less happy, and I'm sure they managed to signal that to the one partner women they talked too, so they said "Yes living like a good pure christian makes me 100% happier than those slutty skanks".

Self reported happiness is just about the most worthless statistic there is.

And uh, wow, you guys are being really fucking pathetic. "Yeah I love watching porn and jerking off to it, but if I ever find out a girl in real life did porn she's a fucking piece of shit!"

Do you also worry about how many sexual partners you've had? Are you worried you're going to "ruin the sanctity of sex" or some gay ass fundie shit? Jesus christ, @ProgKing of the North is the voice of reason!?!

Obviously anyone can have whatever reasons they want for dating or not dating someone. And if one of you says "I really liked this girl, but then I found out she's a fan of the rolling stones, and I'm a beetles guy! So I dumped her ass" you have that right, and I will call you a loser and laugh at you. If you're with someone, you should fucking know them already, and one could assume you must like them. But then you find out they did porn, so... you don't like them!

But you're really just worried the poor girl might have been roped into it! You just want to retroactively save her from the porn.... she already did...

So is it the sex that makes the women bad, or is it the fact that it was filmed? Did all of you remember to save yourselves for marriage?

Fucking incel city in here, wtf... Yes, you are being cringy, sad, and pathetic. When you were young and single (to those who currently aren't) would you have turned down a bunch of hot women because you were worried having too much sex would ruin you for your future partners? Fuck no, you wouldn't. If you're the kind of guy who wants to fuck every woman he sees then call them whores for fucking him then you're a fucking pathetic loser.

All that ranted about, I have no problem with the idea of such an algorithm existing. It's public info, people should make informed choices, it's not anyone else's fault if they make really dumb choices based on that information.
 
Self reported happiness is just about the most worthless statistic there is.

Perhaps you missed the 2nd study in the article that showed promiscuous women also had the higher rates of divorce, about as objective a metric you can get in social sciences. A married woman with 10+ pre-marital partners is roughly 150% more likely to get divorced than women with only 1.

If you think your odds of winding up in divorce aren't a relevant factor when getting into a serious relationship, you're exceptionally optimistic. Or you're a woman.

When you were young and single (to those who currently aren't) would you have turned down a bunch of hot women because you were worried having too much sex would ruin you for your future partners?

That same age group is also highly represented in the Darwin Awards. Younger You did stupid stuff all the time that currently impacts your present, and will continue to impact your future. The fact that you enjoyed it then doesn't make it any less of a bad idea now. (See also: ex-porn stars.)

Having said that, the research shows that multiple partners negatively affects men's happiness and marriages less than it affects women's. Insert the usual feminist screeching about how unfair that is, etc, but to put it bluntly men and women are inherently different, and that manifests in many areas.

I don't care to argue about hypocrisy or double standards or internalized patriarchy or whatever. The reasons why these things are true are less important than recognizing these facts and living your life accordingly. Personally I'd advise all the younger men out there not to sleep around, as well as to avoid relationships with ex-porn stars. Hell, both pieces of advice apply to both genders.

Pretending that porn is "just another job", totally normal and not worth worrying about, is about as ridiculous a head-in-sand idea as dating any random cow featured elsewhere on KF.
 
And uh, wow, you guys are being really fucking pathetic. "Yeah I love watching porn and jerking off to it, but if I ever find out a girl in real life did porn she's a fucking piece of shit!"

Do you also worry about how many sexual partners you've had? Are you worried you're going to "ruin the sanctity of sex" or some gay ass fundie shit? Jesus christ, @ProgKing of the North is the voice of reason!‽

It's not the fact Women have sex and it's filmed is a problem. It's the fact that someone who has made it their job to have sex, and have other people employed to bang them while filming it, makes me wonder if they hold the same values. What made them consider selling their bodies?
 
And uh, wow, you guys are being really fucking pathetic. "Yeah I love watching porn and jerking off to it, but if I ever find out a girl in real life did porn she's a fucking piece of shit!"
Serious TL;DR and spergery here. Not that this is new coming from you.

You know, I like watching lolcows make idiots of themselves, but I don't want to get involved with one.
 
Hey, good point about divorces. That's why everyone was happier before no fault divorces we're allowed right? Have you considered those one partner women might perhaps have some religious reason for not getting a divorce?

I mean, yeah, porn isn't a normal job. Neither is being an actor or model. I'm sure there are some good reasons for some people to not date them.

Your discomfort with women having too many partners seems to be based on some weird concept of "purity" and is nothing more than your subjective opinion, no matter how many studies from the institute of being a good Christian you quote.

You have your right to your wrong opinion, just as I have a right to mine. We'd both be idiots to argue our subjective opinion is objectively right though.

Serious TL;DR and spergery here. Not that this is new coming from you.

You know, I like watching lolcows make idiots of themselves, but I don't want to get involved with one.
Whoa there buddy. I am already married, no danger of "getting involved" here. What happened, did you get aroused and confused by this porn talk? I ain't your priest.
 
Whoa there buddy. I am already married, no danger of "getting involved" here. What happened, did you get aroused and confused by this porn talk? I ain't your priest.
Did you just admit you're a lolcow?

My point, dim one, was that one can enjoy watching someone's work without wanting that person in one's life.
 
LO fucking L, what a dumb fucking study. Have you considered that since the study was meant to prove that women who have more sex are less happy, and I'm sure they managed to signal that to the one partner women they talked too, so they said "Yes living like a good pure christian makes me 100% happier than those slutty skanks".

Self reported happiness is just about the most worthless statistic there is.

And uh, wow, you guys are being really fucking pathetic. "Yeah I love watching porn and jerking off to it, but if I ever find out a girl in real life did porn she's a fucking piece of shit!"

Do you also worry about how many sexual partners you've had? Are you worried you're going to "ruin the sanctity of sex" or some gay ass fundie shit? Jesus christ, @ProgKing of the North is the voice of reason!‽

Obviously anyone can have whatever reasons they want for dating or not dating someone. And if one of you says "I really liked this girl, but then I found out she's a fan of the rolling stones, and I'm a beetles guy! So I dumped her ass" you have that right, and I will call you a loser and laugh at you. If you're with someone, you should fucking know them already, and one could assume you must like them. But then you find out they did porn, so... you don't like them!

But you're really just worried the poor girl might have been roped into it! You just want to retroactively save her from the porn.... she already did...

So is it the sex that makes the women bad, or is it the fact that it was filmed? Did all of you remember to save yourselves for marriage?

Fucking incel city in here, wtf... Yes, you are being cringy, sad, and pathetic. When you were young and single (to those who currently aren't) would you have turned down a bunch of hot women because you were worried having too much sex would ruin you for your future partners? Fuck no, you wouldn't. If you're the kind of guy who wants to fuck every woman he sees then call them whores for fucking him then you're a fucking pathetic loser.

All that ranted about, I have no problem with the idea of such an algorithm existing. It's public info, people should make informed choices, it's not anyone else's fault if they make really dumb choices based on that information.
Lol, angry incel.
 
Did you just admit you're a lolcow?

My point, dim one, was that one can enjoy watching someone's work without wanting that person in one's life.
If you just admitted you were trying to have sex with me. :P

That second part is true. I suppose my argument of "You like porn don't you" doesn't hold up that well to logical scrutiny.
 
Oh but now you've messed up. Weren't you saying women who did porn are lolcows? But they are having sex. So they aren't lolcows? Hahahah, I win!
No, that is not what I said.

I like to watch lolcows, but I wouldn't want to sleep with them. No cognitive dissonance there.

Someone likes to watch porn but doesn't want to sleep with a porn actress. That's not significantly different.

I'm dumbstruck by your stupidity here.
 
I guarantee you that NSA was on this like fly on shit. The biggest issue with security clearances is your propensity to be blackmailed, much more than your character. It could be financial problems, debt, gambling, addiction and infidelity. So I'm pretty positive that any spy agency worth it's salt has been doing exactly this. Soviets used the "honey trap" as a standard OP to great success.

So the cat is out of the bag and this has been going on already, just not so much in the private sector. Chinese .gov use FR a lot, right or wrong.

I was born long before the internet age and one saying I was taught early on: "Take care of new shirt from the time of purchase and your honor from youth" and "honor" means that, not necessarily "purity". If you end up making public statements, they'll stay with you forever.

In terms of "right to be forgotten" ... lol, I doubt NSA and most intelligence agencies forget shit. It's just a matter of who owns the info and can it be strategically leaked. It's hogwash. I'd not trust these laws.

I bet that this will lead to a whole lot of extortion scams. It's a fucking goldmine. I guarantee you that this probably underway already. Lot's of money to be made here.
 
Your discomfort with women having too many partners seems to be based on some weird concept of "purity" and is nothing more than your subjective opinion, no matter how many studies from the institute of being a good Christian you quote.

Nope. In fact, every post I've made in this increasingly autistic thread has specifically avoided bringing morality, purity, religion, virtue, or even judgement into the issue.

The entire point is that there is an objectively higher risk of unhappiness, alienation, and marital instability associated with promiscuity. Different effects for men and women, but it's there no matter what your personal beliefs may be. This is not a Christian argument, it's not even a moral argument; it's what the data shows. (I started with the women's data as a direct response to someone talking about female ex-porn stars.)

My argument is that if you are going to be serious about a relationship, one you care about for the long term, you should approach it rationally. You should go into it knowing your chances and your risks. So it doesn't matter if you think doing porn is no big deal; getting involved with someone who has slept around messes with your relationship. No matter how progressive, modern, open-minded, or cool you think you are, you are merely human, and you are subject to the same statistical disadvantages as everyone in those studies that triggered you.

There's an old joke that "marriage is the triumph of optimism over reason". I'm not quite that cynical, but I will mock people who think relationships are 100% about blind, infatuating, all-covering magical love. Human nature triumphs every time, and denial of our nature is the source of lulz-worthy failures in everything from relationships to political systems.

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So where can I get this on my phone? Will it be called "Thot destroyer" ?
 
Do you also worry about how many sexual partners you've had? Are you worried you're going to "ruin the sanctity of sex" or some gay ass fundie shit? Jesus christ, @ProgKing of the North is the voice of reason!‽

If there's anybody arguing that in this thread, feel free to quote them.

Obviously anyone can have whatever reasons they want for dating or not dating someone.

Apparently fucking not according to you.
And if one of you says "I really liked this girl, but then I found out she's a fan of the rolling stones, and I'm a beetles guy! So I dumped her ass" you have that right, and I will call you a loser and laugh at you. If you're with someone, you should fucking know them already, and one could assume you must like them. But then you find out they did porn, so... you don't like them!

So you're a loser for not finding someone compatible? Also lmfao at "if you're with someone you should know them". "People never ever lie or keep secrets, guys!".

But you're really just worried the poor girl might have been roped into it! You just want to retroactively save her from the porn.... she already did...

So is it the sex that makes the women bad, or is it the fact that it was filmed? Did all of you remember to save yourselves for marriage?

Are you fucking retarded? Setting aside all of the risks, there's the clear problem of mental health issues in people that have worked in porn, not to mention it's perfectly normal to not want someone who's promiscuous. Having a few hookups is normal, having video of you fucking someone on the internet is not.

Fucking incel city in here, wtf...

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Yes, you are being cringy, sad, and pathetic. When you were young and single (to those who currently aren't) would you have turned down a bunch of hot women because you were worried having too much sex would ruin you for your future partners? Fuck no, you wouldn't. If you're the kind of guy who wants to fuck every woman he sees then call them whores for fucking him then you're a fucking pathetic loser.

Who the hell here has said anything even close to what you're saying here?

All that ranted about, I have no problem with the idea of such an algorithm existing.

You very, very fucking clearly do.
Hey, good point about divorces. That's why everyone was happier before no fault divorces we're allowed right? Have you considered those one partner women might perhaps have some religious reason for not getting a divorce?

I mean, yeah, porn isn't a normal job. Neither is being an actor or model. I'm sure there are some good reasons for some people to not date them.

Yeah like not wanting to get into a serious relationship with someone who had the personality type that it takes to be a professional porn actress.

Your discomfort with women having too many partners seems to be based on some weird concept of "purity" and is nothing more than your subjective opinion, no matter how many studies from the institute of being a good Christian you quote.

No, it's more on the fact that previous behaviors are a good indicator of possible future behavior. Your discomfort with people not being open and accepting of people who are promiscuous says a whole lot about you.

You have your right to your wrong opinion, just as I have a right to mine. We'd both be idiots to argue our subjective opinion is objectively right though.

"You have your right to your wrong opinion", ok. Because the majority of people throughout history, and currently in the modern age, have been wrong on this apparently.
 
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