Ohio Could Be The Next State To Protect Kids Online, Unless The Porn Industry Gets Its Way

Ohio has introduced a bill to protect kids from online porn and 'deepfakes.' The porn industry has this effort in its crosshairs.

Memo to Hegseth: It isn’t about AI technology; it’s about counter-AI doctrine



Secretary Hegseth, you are a fellow grunt, and you know winning isn’t about just about technology. It’s about establishing a doctrine and training to its standards, which will win wars. As you know, a brand-new ACOG-equipped M4 carbine is ultimately useless if your troops do not understand fire and maneuver, communications security, operations security, supporting fire, and air cover.

The French and British learned that the hard way. Though they had 1,000 more tanks than the Germans when the Nazis attacked in 1940, their technological advantage disappeared under the weight of the far better German doctrine: Blitzkrieg.

So while the Washington political establishment is currently agog at China’s gee-whiz DeepSeek AIthis and oh-my-goodness Stargate AIthat, it might be more effective to develop a counter-AI doctrine right freaking now, rather than having our collective rear ends handed to us later.

While it is true that China’s headlong embrace of artificial intelligence could give the People’s Liberation Army a huge advantage in areas such as intelligence-gathering and analysis, autonomous combat air vehicles, and advanced loitering munitions, it is imperative to stay ahead of the Chinese in other crucial ways — not only in terms of technological advancement and the fielding of improved weapons systems but in the vital establishment of a doctrine of artificial intelligence countermeasures to blunt Chinese AI systems.

Such a doctrine should begin to take shape around four avenues: polluting large language models to create negative effects; using Conway’s law as guidance for exploitable flaws; using bias among our adversaries’ leadership to degrade their AI systems; and using advanced radio-frequency weapons such as gyrotrons to disrupt AI-supporting computer hardware.

Pollute large language models

Generative AI is the extraction of statistical patterns from an extremely large data set. A large language model developed from such an enormous data set using “transformer technology” allows a user to access it through prompts, which are natural language texts that describe the function the AI must perform. The result is a generative pre-trained large language model (which is where ChatGPT comes from).

Such an AI system might be degraded in at least two ways: Either pollute the data or attack the “prompt engineering.” Prompt engineering is a term that describes the process of creating instructions that can be understood by the generative AI system. A deliberate programming error would cause the AI large language model to “hallucinate.

The possibility also exists of finding unintended programming errors, such as the weird traits discovered in OpenAI’s “AI reasoning model” called “o1,” which inexplicably “thinks” in Chinese, Persian, and other languages. No one understands why this is happening, but such kindred idiosyncrasies might be wildly exploitable in a conflict.

An example from World War II illustrates the importance of countermeasures when an enemy can deliver speedy and exclusive information to the battlespace.

Given that a website like Pornhub gets something in excess of 115 million hits per day, perhaps the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter should be renamed ‘Stormy Daniels.’

The development of radar (originally an acronym for radio azimuth detecting and ranging) was, in itself, a method of extracting patterns from an extremely large database: the vastness of the sky. An echo from a radio pulse gave the accurate range and bearing of an aircraft.

To defeat enemy radar, the British intelligence genius R.V. Jones recounted in “Most Secret War,” it was necessary to insert information into the German radar system that resulted in gross ambiguity. For this, Jones turned to Joan Curran, a physicist at the Technical Research Establishment, who developed aluminum foil strips, called “window” by the Brits and “chaff” by the Americans, of an optimum size and shape to create thousands of reflections that overloaded and blinded the German radar system.

So how can present-day U.S. military and intelligence communities introduce a kind of “AI chaff” into generative AI systems, to deny access to new information about weapons and tactics?

One way would be to assign ambiguous names to those weapons and tactics. For example, such “naturally occurring” search terms might include “Flying Prostitute,” which would immediately reveal data about the B-26 Marauder medium-range bomber of World War II.

Or a search for “Gilda” and “Atoll,” which will retrieve a photo of the Mark III nuclear bomb that was dropped on Bikini Atoll in 1946, upon which was pasted a photo of Rita Hayworth.

A search of “Tonopah” and “Goatsucker” retrieves the F-117 stealth fighter.

Since a contemporary computer search is easily fooled by such accidental ambiguities, it would be possible to grossly skew results of a large language model function by deliberately using nomenclature that occurs with great frequency and is extremely ambiguous.

Given that a website like Pornhub gets something in excess of 115 million hits per day, perhaps the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter should be renamed “Stormy Daniels.” For code names of secret projects, try “Jenna Jameson” instead of “Rapid Dragon.”

Such an effort in sleight of hand would be useful for operations and communications security by confusing adversaries seeking open intelligence data.

For example, one can easily imagine the consternation that Chinese officers and NCOs would experience when their young soldiers expended valuable time meticulously examining every single image of Stormy Daniels to ensure that she was not the newest U.S. fighter plane.

Even “air-gapped” systems like the ones being used by U.S. intelligence agencies can be affected when the system updates information from internet sources.

Note that such an effort must actively and continuously pollute the datasets, like chaff confusing radar, by generating content that would populate the model and ensure that our adversaries consume it.

A more sophisticated approach would use keywords like “eBay” or “Amazon” or “Alibaba” as a predicate and then very common words such as “tire” or “bicycle” or “shoe.” Then contracting with a commercial media agency to do lots of promotion of the “items” across traditional and social media would tend to clog the system.

Use Conway’s law

Melvin Conway is an American computer scientist who in the 1960s conceived the eponymous rule that states: “Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.”

De Caro’s corollary says: “The more dogmatic the design team, the greater the opportunity to sabotage the whole design.”

Consider the Google Gemini fiasco. The February 2024 launch of Gemini, Google’s would-be answer to ChatGPT, was an unmitigated disaster that tanked Google’s share price and made the company a laughingstock. As the Gemini launch went forward, its image generator “hallucinated.” It created images of black Nazi stormtroopers and female Asian popes.

In retrospect, the event was the most egregious example of what happens when Conway’s law collides with organizational dogma. The young, woke, and historically ignorant programmers myopically led their company into a debacle.

But for those interested in confounding China’s AI systems, the Gemini disaster is an epiphany.

Xi’s need for speed, especially in 'informatization,' might be the bias that points to an exploitable weakness.

If the extremely well-paid, DEI-obsessed computer programmers at the Googleplex campus in Mountain View, California, can screw up so immensely, what kind of swirling vortex of programming snafu is being created by the highly regimented, ill-paid, constantly indoctrinated, young members of the People’s Liberation Army who work on AI?

A solution to beating China’s AI systems may be an epistemologist who specializes in the cultural communication of the PLA. By using de Caro’s Corollary, such an expert could lead a team of computer scientists to replicate the Chinese communication norms and find the weaknesses in their system — leaving it open to spoofing or outright collapse.

When a technology creates an existential threat, the individual developers of that technology become strategic targets. For example, in 1943, Operation Hydra, which employed the entirety of the RAF British Bomber Command — 596 bombers — had the stated mission of killing all the German rocket scientists at Peenemunde. The RAF had marginal success and was followed by three U.S. Eighth Air Force raids in July and August 1944.

In 1944, the Office of Strategic Services dispatched multilingual agent and polymath Moe Berg to assassinate German scientist Werner Heisenberg, if Heisenberg seemed to be on the right path to building an atomic bomb. Berg decided (correctly) that the German was off track. Letting him live actually kept the Nazis from success. In more recent times, it is no secret that five Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated (allegedly) by the Israelis in the last decade.

Advances in AI that could become existential threats could be dealt with in similar fashion. Bullets are cheap. So is C-4.

Exploit design biases to degrade AI systems

Often, the people and organizations funding research and development skew the results because of their bias. For example, Heisenberg was limited in the paths he might follow toward developing a Nazi atomic bomb because of Hitler’s perverse hatred of “Jewish physics.” This attitude was abetted by two prominent and anti-Semitic German scientists, Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark, both Nobel Prize winners who reinforced the myth of “Aryan science.” The result effectively prevented a successful German nuclear program.

Returning to the Google Gemini disaster, one only needs to look at the attitude of Google leadership to see the roots of the debacle. Google CEO Sundar Pichai is a naturalized U.S. citizen whose undergraduate college education was in India before he came to the Unites States. His ties to India remain close, as he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third-highest civilian award, in 2022.

In congressional hearings in 2018, Pichai seemed to dance around giving direct answers to explicit questions, a trait he demonstrated again in 2020 and in an antitrust court case in 2023.

His internal memo after the 2024 Gemini disaster mentioned nothing about who selected the people in charge of the prompt engineering, who supervised those people, or who, if anyone, got fired in the aftermath. More importantly, Pichai made no mention of the internal communications functions that allowed the Gemini train wreck to occur in the first place.

Again, there is an epiphany here. Bias from the top affects outcomes.

As Xi Jinping continues his move toward autocratic authoritarian rule, he brings his own biases with him. This will eventually affect, or more precisely infect, Chinese military power.

In 2023, Xi detailed the need for China to meet world-class military standards by 2027, the 100th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army. Xi also spoke of “informatization” (read: AI) to accelerate building “a strong system of strong strategic forces, raise the presence of combat forces in new domains and of new qualities, and promote combat-oriented military training.”

It seems that Xi’s need for speed, especially in “informatization,” might be the bias that points to an exploitable weakness.

Target chips with energy weapons

Artificial intelligence depends on extremely fast computer chips whose capacities are approaching their physical limits. They are more and more vulnerable to lack of cooling — and to an electromagnetic pulse.

In the case of large cloud-based data centers, cooling is essential. Water cooling is cheapest, but pumps and backup pumps are usually not hardened, nor are the inlet valves. No water, no cooling. No cooling, no cloud.

The same goes for primary and secondary electrical power. No power, no cloud. No generators, no cloud. No fuel, no cloud.

Obviously, without functioning chips, AI doesn’t work.

AI robots in the form of autonomous airborne drones, or ground mobile vehicles, are moving targets — small and hard to hit. But their chips are vulnerable to an electromagnetic pulse. We’ve learned in recent times that a lightning bolt with gigawatts of power isn’t the only way to knock out an AI robot. High-power microwave systems such as Epirus, Leonidas, and Thor can burn out AI systems at a range of about three miles.

Another interesting technology, not yet fielded, is the gyrotron, a Soviet-developed, high-power microwave source that is halfway between a klystron tube and a free electron laser. It creates a cyclotron resonance in a strong magnetic field that can produce a customized energy bolt with a specific pulse width and specific amplitude. It could therefore reach out and disable a specific kind of chip, in theory, at greater ranges than a “you fly ’em, we fry ’em” high-power microwave weapon, now in the early test stages.

Obviously, without functioning chips, AI doesn’t work.

The headlong Chinese AI development initiative could provide the PLA with an extraordinary military advantage in terms of the speed and sophistication of a future attack on the United States.

Thus, the need to develop AI countermeasures now is paramount.

So, Secretary Hegseth, one final idea for you to consider: During World War I, the great Italian progenitor of air power, General Giulio Douhet, very wisely observed: “Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the changes in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.”

In terms of the threat posed by artificial intelligence as it applies to warfare, Douhet’s words could not be truer today or easier to follow.

Editor’s note: A version of this article appeared originally on Blaze Media in August 2024.

Investigative journalist discovers a shocking truth about Pornhub



Journalists like Arden Young are keeping the integrity in their practice alive.

Young, from Sound Investigations, recently set her sights on the website Pornhub — which boasts millions of pornographic videos online and over 180 million unique visitors daily.

The journalist went under cover to dig up the truth about Pornhub’s disgusting practices, straight from the mouths of its unwitting senior employees.

She recorded these employees admitting to illicit, illegal, scandalous practices behind the scenes. The information she exposed is so damning that Pornhub is ironically threatening to sue for lack of consent in recording its employees.

Young tells Allie Beth Stuckey that she decided to go after the company because “sexual exploitation has always had a close place in my heart.”

This closeness is due to growing up in Hollywood, where she was “put in and witnessed a lot of very inappropriate situations.”

She zeroed in on Pornhub when she saw a 2020 New York Times article called ‘The Children of Pornhub.’ The article detailed the victims' attempts to get their abuse videos removed from Pornhub. Many of these victims were underage.

While Pornhub claimed to change its ways after that article, Young and her partner “had a hunch that this just wasn’t the case.”

And with the jaw-dropping information Young tirelessly gathered and revealed to Stuckey — it’s clear that their hunch was right.

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Pornhub's parent company admits to profiting from sex trafficking operations



The FBI said that Aylo Holdings, Pornhub's parent company, was "motivated by profit" when it came to profiting off of women who were sexually exploited.

Aylo Holdings S.A.R.L. was arraigned on a charge of engaging in unlawful monetary transactions involving sex trafficking proceeds, the Justice Department stated in a press release.

According to the DOJ, Aylo hosted pornographic videos created by a company called GirlsDoPorn, which was indicted in 2019 by a federal grand jury in California for, among other charges, sex trafficking offenses in which the company was accused of "deceiving and coercing young women to appear in sex videos which were then posted online without the women’s consent" in United States v. Pratt, et. al.

Since the indictment, several of the operators of GirlsDoPorn have allegedly been convicted in connection to the prosecution.

The DOJ went on to describe that according to Aylo's admissions and court documents, the company "knew or should have known" that money received from GirlsDoPorn operators came from sex trafficking operations.

"This deferred prosecution agreement holds the parent company of Pornhub.com accountable for its role in hosting videos and accepting payments from criminal actors who coerced young women into engaging in sexual acts on videos that were posted without their consent," said United States Attorney Breon Peace.

The FBI also said that Aylo was "motivated by profit" and "knowingly enriched itself by turning a blind eye to the concerns of victims who communicated to the company that they were deceived and coerced into participating in illicit sexual activity."

James Smith, FBI assistant director in charge, added that "any entity that engages in sexual exploitation will be held to account for the mental anguish and terror imposed on victims."

The DOJ noted September 2017 as an example of an instance when Aylo allegedly learned that many women who appeared in certain videos had filed a lawsuit alleging that they had been tricked and coerced into filming adult videos. Furthermore, the women claimed that the videos were posted to Pornhub.com without their consent.

Aylo allegedly did not independently verify consent and did not remove all the videos that were requested to be taken down. Also according to the DOJ, Aylo removed videos in question in October 2019.

Pornhub has faced heightened scrutiny in 2023, particularly in Virginia, where it was compelled to enforce an age restriction feature on its website.

Rather than comply, the website chose to cease access in the state altogether.

"The safety of our users is one of our biggest concerns. We believe that the best and most effective solution for protecting children and adults alike is to identify users by their device and allow access to age-restricted materials and websites based on that identification," wrote Pornhub. "Until a real solution is offered, we have made the difficult decision to completely disable access to our website in Virginia."

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Rather than comply with age verification law, Pornhub restricts access to Virginians



Smut giant Pornhub has blocked access to users in Virginia rather than comply with a new law designed to preclude children from accessing the graphic and often brutal sexual content on its site.

In a notification to prospective users Thursday, the company claimed the legal requirement — effective July 1 — that users provide proof of their age "is not the most effective solution for protecting our users, and in fact, will put children and your privacy at risk," reported WRIC-TV.

"The safety of our users is one of our biggest concerns. We believe that the best and most effective solution for protecting children and adults alike is to identify users by their device and allow access to age-restricted materials and websites based on that identification," wrote Pornhub. "Until a real solution is offered, we have made the difficult decision to completely disable access to our website in Virginia."

The smut company told users in Utah virtually the same thing last month after state Republicans took similar steps to spare American children from the content peddled by the European-based, Canada-centered company, which sees over 2 billion users every month.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's office released a statement, saying, "The governor remains committed to protecting Virginia’s children from dangerous material on the internet."

State Sen. William Stanley introduced SB 1515, stating, "If we're going to sit here and just say, ‘Well, there's nothing we can do about it. It's the, you know, darn old internet,’ then we're abrogating our responsibility to our children," reported VPM News.

The law states that "Any commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the Internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material shall ... verify that any person attempting to access such material harmful to minors is 18 years or older."

A commercial entity that enables children to access harmful pornographic material is subject under the law to civil liability for damages.

Youngkin ratified the legislation in May.

While Pornhub cited the need to protect users in its rationale for discontinuing service to Virginia, it was accused further afield this week of illegally collecting data from millions of users.

Wired reported that a complaint, "based on a technical analysis of the website and its privacy practices," was filed in Italy Thursday claiming the site is "dealing with the sexual preferences of users" without asking for consent and likely violating European law.

A 2019 study found that 93% of porn sites sent user data to an average of seven third-party domains, reported the New York Times.

"This isn’t picking out a sweater and seeing it follow you across the web. This is so much more specific and deeply personal," Elena Maris, the study's lead author.

In Pornhub's message to users in Virginia, the company also references the desire to protect children from risk, yet the company has been accused on multiple occasions in recent years of hosting explicit videos of minors, allegedly uploaded without their consent, as reported by the New York Post.

In 2021, the company even settled a lawsuit brought by 50 women who alleged it had profited from pornographic videos published without their consent, according to Canadian state media.

The Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for American smut dealers, indicated it might challenge the Virginia law in court, as it has in both Louisiana and Utah.

"It’s not a matter of if these laws will be ruled unconstitutional but when," a spokesman for the group told WRIC.

Concerning a possible legal challenge, Stanley said, "I think the compelling state interest is the protection of our children. ... And I would rather try and have a supreme court tell me I was wrong then not to try at all."

Pornography has been shown to have a devastating impact on the minds of children and adults alike.

An Israeli study published this month in the scientific journal Body Image indicated a link between pornography consumption and negative body image and ultimately increased severity of eating disorder symptoms.

A February 2022 study published in the journal Psychological Medicine found that porn is "associated with the erosion of the quality of men's sex lives" — "associated with lower levels of sexual self-competence, impaired sexual functioning, and decreased partner-reported sexual satisfaction."

The Australian government found that pornography consumption by young people has served "normalise sexual violence and contribute to unrealistic understandings of sex and sexuality."

A 2014 study revealed that watching porn actually could shrink a part of the brain linked to pleasure.

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