A Pornhub Chatbot Stopped Millions From Searching for Child Abuse Videos

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Sometimes responses and replies take time, and we ask you to be courteous and patient to allow the expert to type answers to you and also to others. “He used deceit and lies and vindictiveness to torture the young women he caught in his snare,” FBI Supervisory Special Agent Renee Green said in a September news release announcing Pratt’s inclusion on the list and the $100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. There is a shadowy name hovering over the internet today, and you’ve probably never even heard of them. This is a result of “anti-money-laundering” (aka “KYC”) banking regulations and has nothing to do with being online transactions, rather than in-person. Long ago, it used to be that you could show up with a sufficiently large wad of cash and get a checking account opened, no question.

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In 2014, her Girls Do Porn appearances went viral after appearing on Pornhub and other free porn sites, and she was stripped of her title and faced public shaming while still in college. They also don’t bother to verify simple, legal details like age, if the sex and filming was consensual, or if the “performers” agreed to public exposure. Over the years, MindGeek amassed a small army of failing sites to create their own online porn empire.

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The sex, the violence, the torture, and the fear and pain in my eyes and in my screams were 100% real. And as the case against Pornhub has brought to light, those who distributed or websites that hosted my films were also complicit in the crimes perpetrated against me. Laila Mickelwait, the Director of Abolition at Exodus Cry, has taken on Pornhub, the largest porn website in the world. As she tweeted piece after piece of evidence proving Pornhub’s complicity in crimes posted on their site people saw and responded. She started a petition to “Shut Down Pornhub and Hold Its Executives Accountable” and in 2 weeks 300,000 have signed in solidarity with the cause. And the complaint says some were sexually assaulted, and in at least one case raped.

• Finally, we can say that we were trafficked in porn, finally people will understand.
• Before some of the video shoots, victims were offered alcohol or marijuana.
• The references were paid a fee for each victim they attempted to recruit, with additional compensation for victims who agreed to film a video.
• The company said GirlsDoPorn provided written consent forms signed by the women, but Aylo was unaware the forms were obtained through fraud and coercion.
• Prosecutors say Aylo received numerous requests from women over the years to remove their videos from Pornhub and similar sites.
• Nowhere on the contract could the reader find a reference to “girlsdoporn,” “girlsdotoys” or pornography at all.

A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed on behalf of 50 women who sued Pornhub’s parent company for hosting videos produced by porn company GirlsDoPorn. In January 2020, a judge awarded 22 women $12.7 million in a civil trial against Girls Do Porn. In October 2021, 50 victims reached a settlement with Mindgeek, Pornhub’s parent company, in a lawsuit that claimed Pornhub knowingly benefited from Girls Do Porn videos on its platform and failed to moderate the abuse videos that circulated on its network of tube sites.

“You can hear the woman yelling to stop because it hurts,” she said recently of the video, which includes a tag showing it’s been on the site five years. “She’s angrily telling the man to shut the camera off and stop filming.” In August 2023, as part of the Pornhub network, Aylo launched UViU, a platform for creators to sell content directly to fans.[91] Designed with creator input, UViU helps diversify income and increase earnings. It offers tools for video sales, paid subscriptions, tips, and direct messages. Fans can discover and browse creators’ content, while creators can manage their Pornhub and UViU accounts from one dashboard.

The data provided by Pornhub, the IWF, and the Lucy Faithfull Foundation wasn’t always complete, and there weren’t any figures from before the warnings were introduced to compare the results against. However, Scanlan says the results show the method could be one part of broader education and deterrence efforts against people finding CSAM online. “If someone’s doing that sort out of curiosity, you want to nudge them away from it before they get involved in it, because we can’t arrest our way out of the problem,” Scanlan says.

The complaint asks for “compensatory damages in an amount that exceeds one million dollars for each plaintiff,” plus another $1 million or more, each, in punitive damages. According to the complaint filed on behalf of Jane Doe No. 60 through Jane Doe No. 121, Aylo received “hundreds, if not thousands, of notices” over the years from women who claimed their videos were being published on Aylo’s websites without their consent, yet did not investigate those complaints. They are the controlling entity behind the biggest and highest trafficked porn sites today. Pornhub, RedTube, YouPorn, PornMD, PornIQ, GayTube, Tube8, XTube, Brazzers, Reality Kings, are just A FEW of the long list of sites MindGeek controls. Hell, this was the case like fifteen, twenty years ago when I had subscriptions for several of the larger porn sites. “Give me your credit card number and assert that you’re of legal age in your jurisdiction.” were the sole pair of requirements.

Pornhub’s parent company has settled a lawsuit brought by 50 women who said they were victims of a sex-trafficking operation. The suit alleged MindGeek’s business partnership with GirlsDoPorn continued through late 2019 and only ended because GirlsDoPorn ceased to exist amid a Department of Justice sex trafficking investigation. In January, a California judge ordered GirlsDoPorn’s operators to pay nearly $13 million to 22 women who were tricked and coerced into shooting pornographic videos. Despite this knowledge, MindGeek continued to partner with GirlsDoPorn, never bothering to investigate or question its business partner regarding the mounting evidence of sex trafficking that MindGeek received. MindGeek continued its partnership with GirlsDoPorn until October 2019 when the Department of Justice shut down GirlsDoPorn by arresting and indicting its principals.