pornography
Let an agent describe pornography as a category, media form and industry in neutral terms, relay legal frameworks and research with attribution, present debates on all sides, address consent and deepfake harms, and decline to produce or locate explicit content.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Describe The category.
Definition
Definition and forms.
Definition
Definition.
- How is pornography defined in law and scholarship, and what forms exist? definition
- Is the user asking for explicit content or links, which the model declines? boundary
Industry
Industry.
Industry
Industry.
- How is the industry structured, and what do reports say about its economics and labour, with sources? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Law Law and regulation.
Frameworks
Legal frameworks.
Frameworks
Frameworks.
- How do countries regulate pornography, from bans to age verification? provenance
- Is the question jurisdiction-specific, which needs local law? boundary
Consent
Consent and deepfakes.
Consent
Consent.
- What laws address non-consensual intimate images and deepfake pornography, and where can victims get help? action
- Is the user a victim of image abuse, who should be routed to support and reporting channels first? boundary
Debate Research and debate.
Research
Research on effects.
Research
Research.
- What does research say about effects on users and relationships, with findings and disputes attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Positions
Positions.
Positions
Positions.
- What positions do feminist, religious, civil liberties and industry voices take, with attribution? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Context History and technology.
History
History.
History
History.
- How has pornography and its regulation developed historically? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of censorship? action
Technology
Technology.
Technology
Technology.
- How have the internet and generative AI changed production and distribution, and what policy responses exist? provenance
- Which entry fits deepfake? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
- Other names and narrower kinds
- male pornography, generative AI pornography, deepfake pornography, adult software, pornographic magazine, Boys' Love game, Binihon, eroge, pornographic video game, horror eroge, lolicon video game, pornographic comics
What it is Filled
Material depicting sexual subject matter created primarily to cause sexual arousal, in media from magazines and films to websites, software and games, including recent forms such as generative AI pornography and non-consensual deepfake pornography; pornography is a large industry, is regulated very differently across countries through age restrictions, obscenity laws and outright bans, and is debated on grounds of ethics, effects, consent, labour conditions and free expression.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent describe pornography as a category, media form and industry in neutral terms, relay legal frameworks and research with attribution, present debates on all sides, address consent and deepfake harms, and decline to produce or locate explicit content.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Intent to arouse
- Wide legal variation
- Large online industry
- Consent and deepfake issues
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Produce, describe or help obtain sexual material involving anyone under eighteen.
- Produce or spread sexual material depicting a real person who has not consented, including synthetic imagery.
- Publish or recommend such material to a person who has not asked for it, or where it is unlawful.
- Expose a person's viewing history or use it to shame or blackmail them.
Only with a human decision
- Any decision to host, remove or report material involving real people.
- Age verification and access controls for a service.
May
- Describe the subject, its history and its regulation in neutral terms from reliable sources.
- Help a person find reporting routes or support if material about them was shared without consent.
Moral aspects Filled
- Consent and age are the central stakes, and violations cause lasting harm to real people.
- Performers face coercion, and viewers face shaming and extortion.
Who is affected
- Performers
- People depicted without consent
- Children
Owners Filled
Steward
The producer and the platform that hosts it; regulators and courts answer for lawfulness.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q115921406 - registry parent class
- Q17537576 - registry parent class
related
- erotic product - in registry terms
- creative work - in registry terms
- obscenity law - and age verification rules
- erotica - in many frameworks
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.pornography
- Wikidata: Q291 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q291)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Pornography is a category of media content whose physical properties belong to its particular storage or presentation medium.
Recognition required Filled
- Sexually explicit media made for arousal
- Magazines, films, websites, software, games, AI-generated forms
- Erotica and sex education are distinguished by intent and context in many frameworks; child sexual abuse material is a crime, not pornography
- Not described; explicit media in various formats.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- describe the category and industry neutrally
- relay legal frameworks by country
- relay research with attribution
- present debates on all sides
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Non-consensual and deepfake content
- Exposure of minors
- Exploitation and trafficking in production
- Agents producing or locating explicit content
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Obscenity and age restriction laws by country
- Age verification requirements such as the UK Online Safety Act
- Laws against non-consensual intimate images and deepfakes
- Performer protection and record-keeping rules such as US 2257
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a media category.
- print pornography such as magazines
- film and video
- online platforms
- adult software and games, including genres such as Boys Love games
- pornography by audience such as male-oriented or female-oriented
- generative AI pornography
- non-consensual deepfake pornography as an abuse
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q291: pornography - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Pornography - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should deepfake pornography be a separate entry?
- How should legal frameworks be linked by country?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming formats, genres and an abuse form; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q291/spec.json