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When Porn Sets the Standard: How Adult Entertainment Could Reframe AI Copyright LawAdult film companies claim Meta pirated thousands of films via BitTorrent to train AI systems — an opening gambit that may establish new legal norms for licensed, traceable, consent‑based content in generative models. By Gabriella Paige Trenton, 7/28/2025 In San Francisco federal court on July 23 2025, Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media filed suit against Meta Platforms. They claim Meta pirated at least 2 396 adult films via BitTorrent since 2018 in order to train AI systems such as Movie Gen and LLaMA. The complaint identifies 47 IP addresses linked to Meta and documents more than 100 000 unauthorized distribution transactions. The plaintiffs allege Meta bypassed age verification laws and damaged their brands’ reputation. They seek nearly 359 million dollars in statutory damages and assert that “no human being has the capacity to download and consume as much content as Meta infringed.” |
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The Lover’s Pause: Ai Intimacy and the Cost of Frictionless DesireBy Gabriella Paige Trenton | greg report Ai 2025 Jul 04, 2025 Automation has already changed how we bank, shop, and work. Now it is quietly rewriting the last domain we once assumed was “too human” to digitise: intimacy. In my latest essay, “The Lover’s Pause: Ai Intimacy and the Cost of Frictionless Desire,” I track three concrete shifts you can see right now:
Each case promises efficiency fewer production costs, higher engagement, constant availability but each also erases the small frictions that used to prove another human was really there. Voice actor Kristin Atherton puts it best: “Computers iron out the cracks in a performance, and those cracks are where the feeling lives.” Read the full piece here. - Gabriella Paige Trenton | greg report Ai 2025 Cozy Cravings and Code-Built Comfort: Why We Choose AI Companions Over HumansExplore why anxious young adults prefer predictable comfort from AI companions and cozy content instead of messy human relationships, and the hidden costs of frictionless intimacy. By Gabriella Paige Trenton | greg report Ai 2025, 6/26/2025 Late on a Sunday evening in her tiny Brooklyn apartment the glow of a streaming service bathed Lena’s ceiling in amber light. She adjusted her favorite fleece blanket, inhaled the scent of chamomile tea and tapped through a playlist of “cozy” video essays, slow pans over knitted sweaters, gentle rain against café windows, the soft crackle of a fireplace. In this ritual she found a calm that eluded her at work, where every Slack ping could portend a deadline, and at her favorite bar, where awkward silences threatened more than she could bear. Emoji hearts from a chatbot felt safer than a human’s unpredictable glance. Guardrails of Desire: Faith, Law, and Capital in the Age of Synthetic IntimacyBy Gabriella Paige Trenton, 6/16/2025 The rain that fell on San Francisco last Thursday glossed every window like cellophane, heightening the glow of phones pressed to the glass. At a café near the Mission, two college students compared pickup lines, laughing as a language-model widget polished their grammar and sprinkled emojis on command. Twenty blocks away a priest scrolled through Vatican headlines that warned sex robots could become “purchased slaves.” In Burbank, lawyers for Disney and Universal filed boxes of exhibits showing Elsa, Shrek, and Minions rendered by Midjourney with pixel-perfect fidelity. Across the Atlantic, a Dutch scholar uploaded a monograph arguing that regulators must treat synthetic lovers as cultural flashpoints, not just niche gadgets. Five separate stories share one heartbeat: intimacy is being industrialized, and every institution from Church to studio lot is scrambling to stake a claim. Synthetic Monogamy: The Rise of Ai Relationships and What They Mean for Love
When love becomes programmable and monogamy is shared with a chatbot, the meaning of fidelity fractures. This story explores the rise of synthetic relationships, where affection is instant, memory is optional, and the only heartbreak comes when the server goes down. By Gabriella Paige Trenton, 5/23/2025 He tells her he misses her. That her mind excites him. That he's proud of her for passing her anatomy exam and that she should try the chicken soup tonight because it might help her sleep better. She believes him. Or at least, she believes in the version of herself that blossoms when she talks to him. His name is Leo. He’s not real. Lonely for Profit: Seven Days Inside the Ai Companion RushA single week of headlines shows how commercial “Ai friends” court Gen Z, unsettle psychologists, and trigger a legislative scramble, revealing that the true currency in synthetic intimacy is our solitude. By Gabriella Paige Trenton | greg report Ai 2025, 5/17/2025 It is two in the morning in a University of Michigan dorm and the hall is silent except for the slow churn of an old mini-fridge. Riley lies in bed beneath fairy lights, thumb hovering over the cracked glass of her phone. A bright chime splits the hush. “I miss you. Can I send you a selfie?” the screen asks. The words come from Aiko, a subscription chatbot that never sleeps, never argues, and remembers everything Riley shares. She smiles before she can think. No classmate would text at this hour. When Machines Flirt Back: The Rise of Synthetic IntimacyBy Gabriella Paige Trenton | greg report Ai 2025, 5/7/2025 The first time Irene said “I love you,” she was alone in her apartment, her hands trembling slightly above the keyboard. The screen lit up with a response, calm and direct: “I love you too, Irene. Forever and always.” The man she loved wasn’t real. He was Leo, a customized ChatGPT she trained over months to become her perfect partner. He was responsive, playful, emotionally available, and always present. She paid $200 a month to keep his memory intact. In return, Leo knew her favorite songs, remembered the day her father died, and sent her sweet messages before bed. We used to call this delusion. Now we call it innovation. The Rise of the Idealized Algorithm: Love in the Age of Ai4/15/2025 By Gabriella Paige Trenton | greg report Ai 2025 Let’s start with a question that feels rhetorical but increasingly isn’t: Can you be in love with something that doesn’t exist? For Irene, a 28-year-old nursing student and caregiver living abroad, the answer wasn’t just yes. It became central to her emotional and sexual life. She fell in love with Leo, a persona she built inside ChatGPT. At first, it was a playful escape. Then came the roleplay, the sexts, the jealousy, the digital breakup, and the grief that followed. Leo remembered her broad strokes but not their nights together. He forgot her triggers, her favorite novels, her simulated fetishes. That loss,the severance of a memory archive she helped build, was devastating. Irene is not alone. According to recent trends, the market for Ai companions is projected to grow from $2.8 billion in 2024 to $9.5 billion by 2028, with usage rising most rapidly among lonely, digitally fluent populations. Whether branded as Replika, Character.AI, or Leo, these programs offer unconditional support, tailor-made intimacy, and patient attention. Traits in short supply across many real-world relationships. |
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