New AI Program Lets Users Create "Cinematic" Adult Scenes

In the early 1900s, right on the heels of the first silent films, the first pornographic movie was produced. It appears, over 100 years later, humans are making sure the AI era includes porn, too. Rogue Studio, the first AI film studio where users can make “cinematic” adult AI content, just launched. Their aim? To further disrupt the adult industry by giving customers a “playground for creative ethical mischief”. Rogue’s founders reject the label of “porn site”, instead billing their product as “a sophisticated platform for adults”.

They call it Rogue 1.0, Artificial Intelligence, built from the same high quality professional AI materials used by a growing number of studios in Hollywood. It’s a software for creatives, with no censorship or restrictions on what their users can create. This sounds a bit risky, sure, but the founders of Rogue Studio believe they’re closing the gap between high tech AI tools and creatives. Rogue’s cofounder, who uses the name Mr. Rogue, says, “There really isn’t a place for a sophisticated creator to go make content that’s rated R. Either they go to these skeezy NSFW sites that are built on outdated open-source tech, or they try to do high-quality stuff but they’re censored up to the gills.”

Before Home Box Office (HBO) came along, TV was pretty whitewashed. You wouldn’t find nudity, vulgar language, or too much violence. Rogue’s founders see their service as an HBO, but for the age of AI. Expanding adult concepts and making them more widely available. “It’s a very fine line between being a sophisticated platform for adults versus becoming just a porn site. And we do not want the latter. We want to do what HBO did for television.” 

Rogue’s team isn’t all robots, however. Given that widely-used AI bots like Grok have churned out photos and videos depicting, let’s just say “illegal sexual content” at a user’s behest, Rogue understands the danger of leaving their AI unsupervised. So, the product is moderated by humans at three separate levels. 

At the first level, Rogue has human moderators searching for keywords in prompts sent by users to the AI model. Anything that signals obvious illegal activity immediately flags the account, suspending the user’s profile if nefarious intent is proven. 

Intention is something that AI has struggled with, so the second layer, dubbed the “intention layer” is also overseen by humans. Let’s say for example someone is attempting to make an illegal deepfake of a celebrity. To avoid detection by moderators (who they think aren’t real people), they might intentionally misspell the celebrity’s name. That’s when humans step in, determine whether or not the user meant to break the law, and act accordingly.

Lastly, the final human-moderated step in the process involves the type of picture or video the AI model creates. A cease and desist letter is in no one’s best interest, so if the prompt says “dark-haired famous singer” and Rogue generates an image that looks like Olivia Rodrigo, the customer won’t receive the image. 

The fact that AI and adult content are two of the most highly stigmatized industries ever (OnlyFans models are literally being denied service by banks because of their job) means Rogue’s founders felt the need to go into this new venture anonymously. Though they’ve worked on big name movies netting over $2 billion box office, Mr. Rogue says, “Because of the climate right now in Hollywood and working in AI, you have got to be very careful.” They acknowledge the divisive nature of AI, but that hasn’t stopped them from exploring this idea. They’re betting on AI’s growth and the stigma around it dissipating.

Right now, Rogue uses a subscription model, offering customers rates between $29 at the low end and $299 for all the bells and whistles. While specifically engineered to develop high quality adult content, plenty of G and PG rated AI programs are included in Rogue, allowing users to develop just about anything.