AI generates nude images that outrank real photographs in sexual appeal, study finds. While people still recognize actual photographs as looking more authentic, the fabricated images reliably score higher in measures of attractiveness and overall pleasantness.
AI generates nude images that outrank real photographs in sexual appeal, study finds
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Because they’re fake and people like fake. Hence all the people botoxing their face into lizard people. This seems to be a pretty simple concept. Problem is they are fabricated fake images. They don’t exist. Might as well desire barbies.
I don’t believe it, I want to take this test
Real enough to allow suspension of disbelief. Fake enough to be fantasies.
Burying the punchline of younger participants all preferred jerking off to cartoons
Fantasy is more appealing than reality. Now with a measurable p-value.
They’re trained on whatever images exist.
My hypothesis is there are more images of photogenic people than non-photogenic people (for reasons that are probably obvious), and that adds bias to make the AI generated people more attractive than a sample of images of real people.
Supernormal Stimulus – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
I would like to review the research data. Does anyone have the source?
I’m going to have to see the dataset before I can believe this one, both the generated and the control. For science!
A friend of mine was chatting with a different friend, and the subject turned to the physical attractiveness of the first friends GF. The second one said “You know her boobs are fake, right?”
To which he replied “so?”
It’s because well endowed green orcs don’t exist in real life.
(reality can not compete with fantasy)
I’ve had a couple girls tell me they like the super-fake CGI stuff and I’m confused as hell
How women’s bodies look in porn is already completely detached from what a women’s body in real life looks like, so this makes sense
There is a discussion to be had of fake Vs natural imagery and conditioning yourself to get off and maybe expect idealised and unattainable beauty standards.. those things are worth taking pause on AI porn, but as someone who fools around with stable diffusion I got to say it’s nice to know there is zero chance of human trafficking and exploitation if I generate explicit imagery.
It’s also a trip to customise what kind of images are made. If you want to fantasize about milfy Japanese pearl diver women from the 1920s who are also body builders with just a bit of a butterface, for example, well you can’t just find that sort of thing from bangbros.
This is just airbrushing with extra steps. Think about it, a general model, erasing all the imperfections be they wrinkles, hair in the wrong places, and other asymmetrical patterns, then presented as still real enough to not be weird.
This feels a bit like saying that a chocolate bar outranks an apple in palatable appeal. It’s not surprising that something people created to be highly appealing will score higher on a man-made ranking than something not specifically tailored to achieve that outcome. Beauty is not perfectly objective, but beauty standards are very well-observed and internalized across cultures such that an effective AI should be able to produce this result.
My anecdotal evidence is that the constant avalanche of AI porn ads makes me want to strangle the 19 year old tech bro somewhere who is cranking them all out. Looks fake, gross and unattractive.
It is also a perfect example of a product looking for a market. You know what the internet has plenty of? Naked people. Tons and tons of real life people happy, nay, excited to show you their bits. We don’t need fake crotches. We got all the crotches we need.
Watch the differences in how AI affects a population in a certain superpower where it is nationalized and regulated as opposed to the US.
Each company is for profit. Each is aimed exclusively at growth. We have begun to develop the end game of technology and it is being used to make porn, deep fakes of teenagers and politicians, Facebook slop of obese people falling. Writing emails and getting recipes you could’ve got from the book or blog it scrubbed it from.
The human brain couldn’t handle social media. Its not wired to handle AI’s impact in the media sphere, at all.
And in a post scarcity world this is something that absolutely needs to be regulated. But here we are.
Most of the non-real models were in provocative poses and most of the real models were in neutral “anatomical” poses. I wonder if this variable contributed.
This is a great sign for society…
That’s interesting, is this being in image form the way they manage to not trigger uncanny valley revulsion?
I wonder if people in the middle ages thought the same of paintings
I mean, raw instinctual attractiveness has always meant the most average and symmetrical factions possible, after all that means healthy genes, any deviation from that is just gene variance or sickness, thus risky from an evolutionary point of view, and it justo happens that AI is an average making machine, the faces it produces are unnaturally average and symmetrical, hence incredibly hot
“Artifical intelligence somewhat optimized for producing aesthetically appealing visuals produces images of women that are more visually appealing than those of average women”
The state of scientific scholarship is getting worse by the minute.
The real news here is that everyone, regardless of gender, recognizes obvious plastic surgery is cringe.
I really think it’s only because it’s novel and sexual appeal is highly driven by novelty. In a few years I predict that AI generated nudes will become boring and the pendulum will swing the other way entirely bringing back focus to natural features, possibly even older pre-AI imagery.
That’s called a decoy. Like a fake duck.
There’s going to be a lot of sex robots in the future…
Of course it does. It is literally taking the most sought after qualities of millions of people and mixing them together to purposely form one super ascended porn star of divinity with the sole purpose of keeping your attention.
Surely this has no negative impacts on society.
> Conversely, younger participants responded much more favorably to the hentai illustrations. They rated these stylized cartoons as more aesthetically pleasing, sexually attractive, and emotionally pleasant than older participants did. The researchers suggest that younger generations have greater exposure to Japanese comic art styles in mainstream media, which might normalize the aesthetic for them.
Like Fentanyl to normal porn’s heroin… what could possibly go wrong..?
Yeah I mean something designed for a purpose is always going to be more successful than random nature. Same reason candy tastes better than an apple.
People loved disco till punk arrived
Folk loved hair metal until grunge arrived
Perfect surfaces have no grip
I wonder if in the long run this will drive people towards natural beauty and flaws and away from the crap people try and conform to these days.
I didn’t see any evidence to review in this article.
Opposite for me I’d say.
These would be the same “gentlemen” that argue over which female video game character is less attractive
Seeing as symmetric features and absence of blemishes are fitness markers, this seems logical from an evolutionary standpoint.
Letting AI porn take over the actual porn industry seems like a win-win for humanity imo
I like some imperfections
A dopamine hit is a dopamine hit
Photoshopped magazine pictures, make-up and plastic surgery have distorted our perception of beauty to the point that it was easy for AI to go beyond the ‘uncanny valley’
So perfection is better than real life, colour me shocked
>AI generates nude images that outrank real photographs in sexual appeal
Like [this image](https://i.redd.it/ou6zcedevzog1.jpeg)? (SFW)
Not going to take any of this seriously until PornHub publishes their analysis.
This seems like a flawed study. The AI models have a more dominant or confident pose/posture (shoulders back, chest out, etc) vs the real models (who are all otherwise standing in neutral positions) and their anatomical proportions are different than the real models, with longer leg proportions throughout. It seems this study is more showing that there is preference for the images showing women more aligned with current (socially defined) beauty standards, which is an obvious conclusion.
I struggle to believe this.