AI-Generated Pornography from a Legal and Ethical Perspective

This article aims to conceptualise AI-generated pornography as a type of sexual abuse. Since almost all AI-generated pornography targets women and girls who do not consent to be a part of the content, the feminist critique of pornography is adopted in this analysis. The thesis of this paper is that it is impossible to generate ethical pornographic content with generative AI because it depends on the data scraped from the Internet without consent. Therefore, AI-generated pornography should be regulated by law. Moreover, targeting a specific individual by creating AI-generated pornography of them should be criminalised as a sexual crime, not under obscenity or privacy laws.