If you’ve been hanging around AI topics, even on the outskirts, you probably heard the topic of “AI Inbreeding,” which is a huge headache for any and all careless online AI scrapers. The problem is a relatively simple one when you think about it. As AI Images flood Google Images and other relevant image hosting sites and providers, the wild AI scraping models will encounter these machine-made arts. The model will then pick up these images and train its algorithm based on them. This is the rough introduction to the problem, and AI training teams are battling this problem daily. Since AI images almost always have something off with them, a massive database of incorrect data is accumulating and polluting the AI as a whole. But how does this obstacle apply to NSFW art?
So Much Porn Everywhere
Pornography is the number one leading reason for getting internet access. Alright, maybe not the most important reason, but porn is up there as the most searched thing on Google, god bless Incognito’s eyes. Since there is endless porn to behold, the AI should in theory never struggle to learn from the medium, and the dangers of inbreeding would be reduced to minimum. But there is simply so much porn! Think of it like this - a tree and a chair are both made out of wood, but their shapes are distinct. The more similar porn niches are like an evergreen tree and a tropical tree. You won’t train your AI on everything that has the “wood” property, right? That said, most AI image generators have made this mistake, which automatically degrades the final results into a mesh of noise.
Overly Generalised Training Data And Lack Of Porn Understanding
You can’t just draw ropes on a naked woman and call that bondage, right? There is something artistic about it that a simple, raw glance can't capture. It also doesn’t help that most of the porn content is purely vanilla or basic of the basic - something that’s been seen a thousand times before. Before you know it, your AI is making the same old porn you’ve seen before, and your indecent dreams and desires are killed off in a blink. It doesn’t help that the folks making the AI are unlikely to have a broad or “deep” understanding of the niche from which they are training the AI. We mean, just imagine the AI creators coding the AI? Not to shame, but the best porn has traditionally been made by those who are neck deep into the spaces they make content for.
Is There No Smut AI Inbreeding?
It’s indeed hard to find smut AI content in the wilds, but the areas that host NSFW art are seeing the advent of it. R34, for example, has been receiving an increase of AI content as of late, and even the popular hentai hosting sites are seeing their first AI doujins. These spaces are the prime locations for gathering training data, which means that careless scrapers are picking up stones and dragging them into the engine. As for places that ban AI smut, those locations are also very likely to prevent image scraping in the first place, so the lazy AI makers will not have an easy time. The fortunate thing is that AI has been having a harder time making compelling enough porn to spread it everywhere, which is also incredibly ironic when you think about it.
Porn Must Be Interesting At All Costs
While perversions are endless, porn makers must always be ahead of the game. They simply need to create porn that’s unique enough and exciting enough to attract an audience. The common niches like Reality porn and BBC have thousands of sites offering good content, so you need to stand out. The AI, sadly, does the opposite here - it always aims to recognise patterns and create a repeating structure. If you gave a smut generator a crack before, you no doubt noticed how the images seem to be repeating. Same poses, same faces, same activities. Sure, it’s exciting when you can add your own details, but it grows stale quickly. This repetition is only good for cases where the niche is indeed “niche” and there are far too few images to grow bored of. But it also works for popular media characters.
Making Sense Of The Chaos
Perhaps the hardest thing for the AI to do is figure out the knotted-up structure of pornographic content. Let's face it, smut is a far cry from clean. There are millions of unique poses and activities, and only so many still frames in the chaos. Even doujin manga are known for often being over the top. This means that the best bets are those still, big, wide shots that are frequently the centerpieces of softcore albums or manga panels. It’s not a bad place to start from, but true smut lovers will prefer those less clean and smooth shots where the passion is clear. Dedication and time are needed to master this, which is sadly something most AI hosts don’t want to bother with.
What Can We Conclude?
This isn’t anything that’s in the same ranks as philosophy and social justice. It’s a simple proof of carelessness and the nature of porn AI makers. The goal is quick money and success, and so the systems are left automatic without a shred of regard for morals or the quality of their work. Sloth is the sin of AI tech, and NSFW branches are no exception. Only dedication, love for the content the AI is learning, and careful corrections can help make truly incredible AI models that can make countless adult niches grow beyond peanut sizes. The smut side of AI is facing the same issues as the SFW side, but our degenerate issues have their own flavor and need to be addressed over time. Until then, we are all stuck in AI limbo and waiting for changes!
