A Pornhub Chatbot Stopped Millions From Searching for Child Abuse Videos

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„Laila Mickelwait is a superstar advocate and activist who has single-handedly led the charge against Pornhub and its facilitation and monetization of child sex trafficking,“ he tweeted last week. Nearly two dozen videos uploaded to Pornhub showed a 12-year-old Alabama boy being repeatedly drugged and raped. The rapist, Rocky Shay Franklin, is now serving a 40-year prison term for sexual exploitation. „Performers“ remain unverified in many thousands of pre-2024 videos, including those that pop up from search terms involving teens and violence, Mickelwait told Business Insider.

• Reading Porn is a reminder that, in the internet age, we are living through a major societal change too.
• Most content shared through social media has the potential to reach a large audience, regardless of privacy settings.
• But Porn has the quality of a good novel, in that while reading it you often notice small details or perspectives which make you think about the world, or your own life, differently, without having a lesson overtly spelled out to you.
• SAN DIEGO – Michael Pratt, the alleged mastermind behind the GirlsDoPorn commercial sex trafficking ring, made his first appearance in federal court today following his extradition from Spain Monday night…

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She locked herself in the bathroom while Wolfe and Garcia tried to coax her out. But soon after the incident, she was harassed at work—Jane Doe 7’s video had been posted online. While she only looked at it on one website, others told Doe the video was now all over the Internet. The victims said they suffered relentless torment after online trolls figured out their names and posted that and other private information online. Some had links or images from the videos emailed to parents and grandparents, coworkers and bosses.

The Guy Behind the GirlsDoPorn Site Is Now on the FBI’s Most Wanted List

Similarly, addiction studies have also reported that cues explicitly paired with the absence of a drug reward can have marked inhibitory effects on dopamine release (Leyton and Vezina, 2014). Consistent with a negative prediction error, Banca et al. reported a decrease in ventral striatal activity in response to the omission of an expected sexual image (following a conditioned cue) (Banca et al., 2016). Banca et al. also found that, compared with healthy controls, compulsive Internet pornography users had enhanced preference for conditioned cues (abstract patterns) related to sexual images (Banca et al., 2016). This finding suggests that Internet pornography users can become “sensitized to cues” that are unrelated to sexual content and produce associations that can be extremely challenging to extinguish (Banca et al., 2016). These impairments of sexual arousal and erectile difficulties in intimate relationships but not with sexually explicit materials suggest that the enhanced desire scores were specific to the explicit cues and not generalized heightened sexual desire (Voon et al., 2014, p 5).

• Pornhub, which is owned by parent company Aylo (formerly MindGeek), uses a list of 34,000 banned terms, across multiple languages and with millions of combinations, to block searches for child abuse material, a spokesperson for the company says.
• Chapin told NPR that in addition to offering financial compensation, the websites also have to take down the Internet postings and let the women know that „friends and loved ones may see it — so if you want to be paid money, then you’ve got to understand what the potential problems are.“
• Finally, in March this year, the alleged GirlsDoPorn mastermind, Michael Pratt, was extradited from Spain to the US to face charges linked to the operation.
• The chatbot was designed and created by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a nonprofit which removes CSAM from the web, and the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a charity which works to precent child sexual abuse.

Friend and Business Partner of GirlsDoPorn Owner Michael Pratt Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

All of Pratt’s co-defendants have either accepted plea deals or been found guilty for their involvement in GirlsDoPorn, court records show. That does not matter to Khalifa, newly engaged and looking to live the rest of her life. Criticisms and insults were aimed at Khalifa after her Twitter revelation over her payday, suggesting she was naive or duped. I’m just clarifying common misconceptions about me, and in turn, about the industry,” she later wrote. More than 3,800 videos tagged with Khalifa’s name are on the site, even though she filmed only about a dozen. Pornhub said some may be duplicates or uploaded by an army of community members.

The site attracted women by telling them that their videos would only be sold on DVD to wealthy customers overseas and would never appear online. Most of these women were enticed to hotel rooms in San Diego through modelling shoot ads posted by Girls Do Porn. “Do any contracts presented to models since the lawsuit was filed in June 2016 reference websites? The company denied that many of the sites hosting this content use its services.

The women in these videos legally own that content, as a result of a ruling by a federal judge in 2021. The civil lawsuits and criminal prosecutions have also entangled popular free porn sites such as PornHub. Late last year, Pornhub’s parent company agreed to pay more than $1.8 million to resolve a criminal probe alleging it profited from sex trafficking through its hosting of GirlsDoPorn videos. A man accused of masterminding a vast conspiracy that tricked and coerced young women into filming pornographic videos for his online GirlsDoPorn empire has been extradited from Spain to San Diego to face numerous federal charges. SAN DIEGO – Matthew Isaac Wolfe was sentenced in federal court today to 14 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy with Michael Pratt, owner of the website GirlsDoPorn, and others, to deceive and coerce young women into appearing in pornographic videos. This pornography-related body perfectionism may be linked to narcissistic tendencies, and some studies indicate that sex addiction is positively related to narcissism (Andreassen et al., 2018; Kafka, 2010; Kasper et al., 2015; Raymond et al., 2003; Widman and McNulty, 2010).

Reid rose to stardom in the world of adult entertainment during the 2010s and has become a big name in the industry. Recently, however, she quit shooting scenes that involved her having sex with male performers. These negative feelings can lead to even greater helplessness to eliminate the consumption of pornography and may lead an individual to a state of greater frustration and concern (Young et al., 2000).