PornHub Uses Computer Vision To ID Actors, Acts In Its Videos (techcrunch.com) 135
Baron_Yam shares a report from TechCrunch, which details PornHub's use of machine learning to ID actors and acts in its videos: The computer vision system can identify specific actors in scenes and even identifies various positions and attributes. While it is obviously very difficult to describe the feature set for a family audience, the system can identify individual performers in real time -- in the demo here it recognizes one performer even from the side -- and it can also identify sex acts. Facial detection is nothing new, even for mobile devices, but this system goes one step further by categorizing videos and images based on various attributes. This means you'll be able find favorites by name or characteristics, a feat that once require prodigious amounts of data entry.
"So far we've used the model on about 500k featured videos which includes user submitted and we plan to scan the whole library in the beginning of 2018," said Price. "Very shortly, the technology will also be used to detect various sex positions / categories and be able to properly tag them as well."
"So far we've used the model on about 500k featured videos which includes user submitted and we plan to scan the whole library in the beginning of 2018," said Price. "Very shortly, the technology will also be used to detect various sex positions / categories and be able to properly tag them as well."
Idea! (Score:5, Interesting)
Now all they need to do is develop an App where you upload a picture of a girl you took a picture of and it finds the closest porn match! = $
Re:Idea! (Score:5, Funny)
Scarily, once they have their database, that is completely possible if you're talking a facial match. Facial. hehe
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Yes it would mostly be a facial match I think, just find girls that are close enough so you can watch porn of a girl kind of like the one you got a thing for at work or errr something :) HAHA
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One time a techie at work was fixing the laptop of a manager and found a directory named after a female coworker. It contained multiple p0rn images and video featuring women that somehow looked like that female coworker. I guess this is a thing for some people.
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I must say the combined phrases "it can also identify sex acts. Facial detection is nothing new, even for mobile devices" had me puzzled for a fraction of a second, there. What? There are mobile apps that identify facials?... Oh, faces, right.
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Yep, that is me!
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Closest porn match is... not a hotdog.
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4chan et al. have been doing this for years as a way to harass and dox people. If they can't find anything they just post someone similar looking and claim it's the victim.
Surprised there have not been more lawsuits yet, over firings for misidentification.
I predict the supply of amateur porn will dry up fast too. The promise of relative anonymity and obscurity will deter people.
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Not only that, in the [near] future they could create a 3D model based on your submissions and offer VR sessions. Creepy :P
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Looking for big bucks? Marry their database to the one from xing, linkedin and so on, then mail the pornhub links to the xing links. Then promise to not send that link to their boss if they find a way to convince you.
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I have a friend who is a dead ringer for an adult film actress.
She doesn't think the resemblance is quite so strong but one day, I showed her husband a picture of the actress in question and he started laughing. He agreed that they looked nearly identical.
LK
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They're friends of mine and more than that, he's not insecure.
LK
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Ooh. I've seen this one. Spoiler: An ICBM comes up through the floor of their house.
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Well according to Kelly LeBrock/Lisa it was a Pershing missile, and they where medium range ballistic missiles not ICBM's.
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Kelly LeBrock was smooooooooooookin' back in the day.
An AI That Watches 500K+ Porn Videos? (Score:2)
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If a sentient AI ever exists thanks to watching porn, the first thing it will do is scan all of the Internet for alternate entry points, i.e. backdoors.
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Innovation (Score:5, Insightful)
Provides a whole new meaning... (Score:5, Funny)
to the term "facial detection".
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Oh sorry, didn't recognize you without the cum on your face.
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In a non-sexual context, something like this would sure be useful for regular folks to categorize their home videos (sports, home, by person, etc).
Or in a sexual context, too. Cupboard of love [youtube.com]
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By far my favorite sitcom ever.
(Well, the first three seasons anyway.)
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Hilarious if this leads to big AI.
Maybe not big AI, but it can identify Big AL
It has always been true (Score:5, Funny)
Porn has always led the industry. Always.
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Just the tip, though.
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and the shaft.
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Porn has always led the industry. Always.
Which is why we all have HD-DVD players in our homes now.
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we all have HD-DVD players in our homes
True, I keep mine next to the oil lamp on the icebox.
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Porn has always led the industry. Always.
Sure. lots of innovation comes from porn. My concern is the next place tech like this leaps, to facebook, or instagram, or Security Cameras in public places.
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Porn has always led the industry. Always.
Not sure about that. Take search for instance; pornhub is running behind in that area. They're even worse than Youtube. Just the other day I was looking for softcore midget furry domination videos, and for some reason 2/3 of the results were about stepdaughters or stepsisters.
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Porn has always led the industry. Always.
There's a documentary called "How Beer saved the World" that explains a significant driving force behind the evolution of agriculture to mass produce beer. There ought to be a new documentary made called "How Porn saved the Internet" to tell a similar story.
Now this (Score:2)
is what computers are for!
Don't I know her? (Score:2)
How fast before they add a "find your wife/daughter/mom/ex" option?
No need for a male option. You can tell the guys just by their bragging.
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How fast before they add a "find your wife/daughter/mom/ex" option?
No need to wait! If you want sex videos of your mom I can send you a private url.
Facial detection is nothing new (Score:2)
Sorry, read that as facial defecation. As you were.
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Well, still better than fecal detection...
This was inevitable (Score:3)
Internet Rule 34. That is all.
Re:This was inevitable (Score:5, Interesting)
That rule refers to porn about things; this is merely a thing about porn. But lemme help you out there:
He rubbed his eyes, wondering what time it was. Suddenly the lights came on, blinding. Billy fell out of his chair in surprise, and heard Jenny exclaim "Oh, so sorry! I didn't know someone would be in the PornHub office this late. I'm just here to clean". Rolling onto his belly, Billy strikes a sexy pose, and says with a wink "It's okay, you might actually be able to help me out. See, I'm writing a system to detect various kinds of sexual acts and poses, and, well, it needs training data".
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Yeah, it was a bit of a stretch. Thanks for the improvement.
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Although this isn't quite what you'd call rule34, it is relevant to the discussion here. There are *many* R34 related sites that would love to have an AI that could scan, categorize and tag things that are uploaded on them automatically.
Unfortunately, this might as well be the ultimate Turing test for machine vision at this point. ID'ing porn of a few known people and positions is easy. ID'ing porn of something that could be anything is several orders of magnitude harder.
Finally! (Score:3)
Finally, someone is putting this tech to a task that is both helpful and not destroying uninvolved people's privacy!
In Soviet Russia... (Score:2)
I sense Mash Up! (Score:3)
So PornHub has the "AI" trained to recognize the sex positions. Google and Amazon have the cameras in the bedrooms (and other parts of "private" residences).
What could possibly go wrong?
America's most anally active zip code?
Which neighborhood in America is best for 3-somes?
Is missionary /really/ the most common position in America?
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Which neighborhood in America is best for 3-somes?
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Actually we are already running the data. Turns out my own zip code is the best for females who enjoy anal and threesomes.
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Fat chick rolls to the bottom of the group sex, what else is new?
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Amazon used to make available data on where a thing you were browsing was popular. I mostly remember books, and they would tell you the regions or areas where it was being sold. "#1 In Minneapolis, #5 in Cambridge" that sort of thing.
If they still had that, you could figure out where sex lube was most popular and grant that area the anal capital of america title.
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Amazon has a camera pointed at your bed. So when you are about to go from foreplay to intercourse and are desperately searching for a condom in your drawer and not finding one you will hear your NEST doorbell go off and an Amazon Delivery drone will come to your bedroom window with a pack of condoms and you can say "Yes Alexa I would like to purchase this item". See AI makes your life easy. (And creepy but focus on EAAAASYYYY)
the jokes, they write themselves! (Score:5, Funny)
"... the system can identify individual performers... and it can also identify sex acts."
So it can do facial detection and, um, facial detection?
Seriously... PH has improved dramatically lately. (Score:1)
use OpenCV and caffe to catagorize your porn (Score:1)
here is a good primer
https://adeshpande3.github.io/... [github.io]
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They could also use a captcha system like Google did for identifying street names and house numbers to train their algorithms. To confirm you're not a robot, identify this sex act...
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The next step is composition (Score:3)
Once they've got that database recorded and classified, the next step is clearly to create composites, i.e. "original" performances.
Please note this doesn't even take a real AI. Not even a narrow AI. The AI is needed to classify the images, but they've already separated recognition of the particular actions from the individuals involved. Now they can mix the thematic elements in multiple different combinations, and let the audiences decide which compositions are most successful.
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Since 99% of the content on PornHub is infringing copyright, maybe that's their ultimate goal. Kinda like Uber, start off ignoring the law and hope to develop something legal before you get sued and regulated into oblivion.
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It wouldn't even need to infringe copyright...at least not in any detectable way. If you morph 3 images of people together properly the resultant figure is still apparently human, and often even a bit more aesthetic, because more symmetrical, but not recognizably any one of the original sources. You can't copyright a plot, because all plots that people can enjoy existed long before copyright laws. Etc.
The thing is, this is a very small wedge of human activity, which is rather limited in it's variety, so
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There's already software out there that will take a camera input and apply another person's facial features to the feed, in real time. And other software directors are using to 'correct' takes by altering an actor's expression digitally.
Realistic artificial porn is not too far off, and at some point you'll be able to submit your desired parameters and have your computer locally generate whatever you desire, instantly.
It'll probably take longer to replace actors, because porn generally doesn't require much
Darn! There goes my job! (Score:5, Funny)
Take Down City (Score:2)
Expect someone to figure out how to use this system to send a bunch of takedown notices of their material that they couldn't find before due to mis-labeling of the vids.
Damn Computers (Score:5, Funny)
They have even taken over watching porn now.
How many videos do they have? (Score:2)
If they used the model on a sample of 500k videos and will only start to scan the whole library next year I wonder how many videos they have.
Science Marches On (Score:5, Funny)
"PornHub Uses Computer Vision To ID Actors, Acts In Its Videos"
Science Marches On (driven by the unquenchable desire for more boobies)
What a time to be alive.
Not Hotdog (Score:2)
Need I say more.
Well this is terrifying (Score:3)
Re: Well this is terrifying (Score:1)
You mean there are consequences to your actions? When did this happen???
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You might as well come clean right now and get it over with. What did you do?
So that's where Apple licensed Face ID. (Score:2)
Nonsense! (Score:2)
From the summary:
I call BS!
I just gave my girlfriend a facial and did my iPhone detect it? Did it fuck.
I want my money back! Do you hear me Tim Cooke?
Disclaimer:
100% reliable detection (Score:2)
The software is able to identify with 100% reliability that some form of sexual activity is performed in every single video hosted by the site.
Nice thing to put on a resume (Score:3)
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And soon, narration? (Score:2)
It would be great for the sight impaired to develop this technology into live narration.
And develop sexy robot voice to go with it.
it's probably... (Score:2)
... just outsourcing all these things to /r/tipofmypenis
Whew! (Score:2)
And here comes the population explosion (Score:2)
If people spent less time watching porn they would spend more having sex. Just saying. Keep porn watching inefficient for the sake of the children (or not for the sake of the children)
Facial detection (Score:2)
I lol'd.
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I'm so disappointed that shirt doesn't have any comments.
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Give us a few minutes.
Re: here's a challenge (Score:4, Funny)
Probably because they don't sell it in more then 3X large.
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Still my favorite programming language. :P
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Oh crap, did post that as an AC?
- cremier
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Ha ha ha ha ha.
Don't quit your day job, that faked orgasm was totally unrealistic.
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I guess I'm not the only one who genuinely misread that line...