CLASS DESCRIPTION
The Evolution of Post AI Pornography is a lecture that responds to the ever-emergent question will AI ruin the porn industry…
From a historical and wide-focus lens that attempts to identify cycles in technology and human behavior, this lecture will analyse trends leading up to the explosive 2024 boom of accessible generative systems, and explores how "AI art" and chatbots have changed what people expect and want from adult content. From HarmonyAI to Smarterchild, the class will look at the history of people having intimate relationships with chatbots as far back as the 1990's, previous forms of generated/fantasy figures in adult content, and whether or not AI has substantially changed internet economics and what people are willing to pay for when it comes to adult content.
In this lecture, we will also consider AI porn in the context of consent practices and IP law, mapping out relative legal frameworks that could potentially be used in regulation while highlighting potential risks of overreaching obscenity law that could be applied to "real person" adult content creators and providers. Obscenity law is often used to override legislation protecting basic rights and freedoms, and most frequently gets applied to already marginalized people like women, queer people, people of color, sex workers, and those who intersect with multiple of those identity points.
ABOUT OUR LECTURER
Noelle Perdue is a writer, producer, and Internet porn historian with nearly ten years of experience working platform-side for multiple mainstream and independent porn companies. Having written everything from Food Network porn parodies to legally binding terms and conditions, much of her current work explores the blurry borders of obscenity and how pornography’s history can influence our digital and political futures. Noelle’s writing work has been published on Wired, Washington Post, Pornhub, Slate, Brazzers, and more. She’s also been featured as an industry expert on BBC, CBC, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, on Netflix's 2023 documentary Money Shot, and has spoken at multiple universities and conferences.
INSTAGRAM: @all_day_breakfast_
WEBSITE: www.noelleperdue.com
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AUTUMN/WINTER TERM 2025
Monday 15th September
Luisa-Maria MacCormack (she/her)
Female Sexuality and the Male Gaze
Monday 22nd September
Dr. Kate Pickering (she/her)
Ritual, Myth and Mysticism: Inclusive Religious Practices in Contemporary Art
Monday 29th September
Julia Kotziamani (she/her)
Misogynist Bureaucracies: Administrative Erasure and the Feminist Body
Monday 6th October
Noelle Perdue (she/her)
Post-AI Pornography
Monday 13th October
Erin James (she/they)
The Real Housewives of Racist TV Tropes: a Black Feminist Reading of Reality TV
Monday 20th October
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Monday 27th October
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