A Touching Story

This lead item is not for you. It’s for the other people. The small niche of the population who occasionally visits adult sites on the internet. I know, gross right? There are about 2.5 million people who visit the most popular sites. Every sixty seconds. (Your guess is as good as mine as to what those folks are doing with the extra forty seconds.) Even though folks like you and me don’t frequent such sites, they draw a lot of people, and the industry is often at the forefront of technological developments. Most people stopped paying attention once they solved the video buffering issues, but the advances continue, and that includes the use of artificial intelligence. Like most things tech, there will be good advances and really bad advances. Tatum Hunter visits the adult video news expo to find out the latest about changes that are at once titillating and deeply concerning. WaPo (Gift Article): AI ‘dream girls’ are coming for p-rn stars’ jobs.

+ Like you, this was all news to me. As I once wrote in NPR, I grew up in an age of Pong and Space Invaders, when the scrambled version of adult content was about all we could handle. Coming Of Age In The World Of Pay-Per-Minute P-rn.