New York Post

Robust robot porn pix fix

- By NICOLAS VEGA

Pornhub, the largest purveyor of adult videos on the internet, said it will begin using robot software to comb through, categorize and tag the millions of X-rated videos on its site.

The machine-learning software will be able to identify not only actors’ and actresses’ faces and body types but also the kinds of sex acts they’re performing in each video.

The idea is to tag them accordingl­y to make it easier for visitors to find exactly what kind of smut they’re looking for with a search engine.

To accomplish this, the team at Pornhub has compiled a massive database of images of porn stars’ faces, as well as different sex positions, and taught robots to recognize them.

The program has begun to methodical­ly go through each and every one of the more than 5 million videos on Pornhub, one second at a time, to break down precisely what is happening on screen.

In addition to recognizin­g a performer’s face, the AI can identify characteri­stics such as hair color and bust size.

Pornhub Vice President Corey Price assured The Post that amateur pornograph­ers and victims of revenge porn need not worry that they will be outed by the program.

“Our model only scans for profession­al porn stars in our database,” he said.

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