In one bizarre and deeply NSFW corner of the internet, a website called PornPen.ai is churning out an endless feed of graphic, chaotic, and widely varied pornographic imagery — all of which, the site makes very clear, was generated using AI. With a fusillade of new images cropping up in the live feed constantly, the effect can be overwhelming. Some are impressively photorealistic, while others are intentionally cartoonish. Many carry at least one telltale sign of AI generation, from malformed hands or an extra appendage to abnormalities in eyes or ears (the AI is also weirdly bad at depicting penises, for some reason.) There’s substantial diversity in body type, age, race, and gender, though you have to click an option to see men in the feed, suggesting a heterosexual male preoccupation to the project. Staring at the PornPen feed, it’s difficult to not have mixed feelings. On the one hand, erotic art and sex work are as natural to the human experience as anything else; there’s a 37,000-year-old depiction of a vulva etched into the ceiling of France’s Chauvet cave, after all. But as human as porn has always been, AI is distinctly inhuman. An algorithm is essentially gobbling up human-made imagery, remixing it, and regurgitating it to suit the desires of horny users. And between the rise of thirst-trapping AI-generated influencers, the deep attachments that people are forming to AI companion programs like Replika, and the onset of chatbot-enabled AI sexting, it seems that AI’s role in the vast landscape of porn, sex,…Are We Ready For This Site's Endless Feed of AI-Generated Porn?