Między singularity i uncanny valley – pornografia wspierana przez sztuczną inteligencję a estetyka i narracja „obcości”
Between Singularity and Uncanny Valley – Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Pornography and the Aesthetics and Narrative of “Aliency”

Summary/Abstract: The dynamic development of generative artificial intelligence systems constructing tex-tual visual and audio content based on prompts (queries, descriptions, and tags) raises numerousquestions regarding issues such as creative autonomy, the impact of automation on art generationprocesses, the value of typically human creativity, the scope of copyright, and intellectual propertyrights. Automatically generated texts, images, and sounds prompt experimentation and evoke bothfascination and dread. In the article, I would like to focus on the impact of such tools on the realmof pornography. In the era of platforms based on systems like DALL-E, Midjourney, or Stable Dif-fusion, which typically censor erotic and pornographic content, the automatic creation of imagesdepicting explicit sexual scenes primarily occurs through dedicated and increasingly numerous ser-vices such as Pornpen.ai, Promptchan.ai, PornX.ai, PornWorks.ai, PornJoy.ai, and others. The textwill illustrate what types of technologies and cultural practices historically led to the emergence ofAI pornographic services and to what extent existing theoretical concepts about pornography fit thedescription and interpretation of such phenomena. I will also highlight the current offerings of suchservices regarding their functionalities and capabilities for generating pornographic content. A sig-nificant portion of the article will analyze selected samples of Pornpen.ai content. The perception ofimages generated with the involvement of artificial intelligence scripts using this platform evokesa specific sense of otherness in both their aesthetic and narrative layers. This kind of new “uncannyvalley” and those human-nonhuman narrative dynamics around sexuality will be the subject of myreflection in the final part of the discourse.

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