Generative porn tech: The dark side of AI innovation

Friday, July 21, 2023

Today’s top story brings some continuing coverage of how artificial intelligence is affecting the porn industry. Nearly a year after taking a look at the early stages of AI-generated porn, we find that while this area of AI has evolved, the stakes get higher. Meanwhile, sex workers are being looped into conversations around what makes for good (or bad) nonplayable character content online.

Meanwhile, as you can see, there is a lot going on with AI, so you’d think it was an odd time to change jobs if you were neck deep in it. However, over at OpenAI, head of trust and safety Dave Willner stepped down.

And, in today’s top TechCrunch+ story, IBM’s earnings this past quarter leave us nonplussed, but they do show that Red Hat saved IBM’s bacon this quarter.

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Startups with all-women founding teams raised just $1.4B in H1

If your founder team includes men and women, here’s some good news:

“Mixed-gender teams picked up 28.1% of capital raised in H1, which is up from raising 16.9% in H1 2022,” reports Dominic Madori-Davis.

However, women founders aren’t faring nearly as well, raising just $1.4 billion during the same period.

“The last time companies with all-women founders raised such a low H1 amount was in 2017, when they picked up $1.2 billion.”

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