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19May 2021
TextBrit Dawson
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Wank like it's 1896: Pornhub is remastering century-old porn videos

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The adult site has used artificial intelligence to colourise 20
vintage erotic films, spanning the 1890s to the 1940s

19May 2021
TextBrit Dawson

"From the moment we figured out how to make images come to life
through film, we've been making porn," declares Pornhub, as it
announces a new project (titled 'Remastured') which sees the adult
site remaster century-old porn videos.

Using artificial intelligence, Pornhub colourised 20 vintage erotic
films, spanning the 1890s to the 1940s. The clips include the first
ever kiss captured on film (directed, bizarrely, by light bulb
inventor Thomas Edison), ankle-only stripteases, and kinky 1920s
cosplay. While many of the early videos are, as Pornhub says,
"laughably gentle", the later clips resemble the porn of today.
Think: classroom spanking, happy endings, and 'unplanned' threesomes.

In a press release, Pornhub shared details of how it successfully
restored the videos despite deep-learning models being rarely trained
with nude or pornographic images. "By introducing AI to Pornhub's
massive content library, it learned a naughty new trick: how to
detect subtle shades of penises, nippes, and turn-of-the-century
bush."

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After sharpening the footage and colourising it using deep learning,
the adult site boosted each film to 60 frames per second, rescaled it
to 4K resolution, and digitally remastered the imagery and audio. "To
develop the machine-learning algorithm, we paired black and white
images, along with the colourised version," Pornhub continued.
"Through testing, the AI was able to generalise its comparative
findings and colourise images provided previously to colourising
images it had never seen."

Pornhub's 'Remastured' project was created in collaboration with
creative agency Officer & Gentleman and studio Espada Santacruz. You
can watch the trailer for the campaign below, and find the NSFW film
library here.

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