In 2019, the platform dedicated to adult videos PornHub registered a not inconsiderable figure of 42 billion visitors , with an average of 115 million users per day. Per minute, 219,985 videos and 11,082 hours were transmitted throughout the year, an increase of 584 hours compared to the previous year. What became one of its most successful years, after its official launch in 2007.
While PornHub continues to increase in views, we have recently learned that the video platform has delved into the past in order to remaster, with 4K quality, some of the oldest erotic films .
Christened Remastured , the platform has used artificial intelligence to restore and colorize movies for 125 years . To do this, it took advantage of machine learning and a total of 100,000 images and adult videos to teach AI how to color the movies.
Different algorithms were used to restore the movies with “limited human intervention,” according to Pornhub itself. The process began by reducing the noise in the images, so common in vintage recordings, to then sharpen them and add better contrast to them.
In turn, the videos were improved so that they could run in 4K at 60 frames per second , while the audio was also remastered , or a new soundtrack was added.
Among the films restored and remastered by PornHub we can mention ‘The Kiss’ (‘The Kiss’), originally created in 1896, and which became the first film that captured the first kiss, which, with a duration of just 18 Seconds, it was distributed by a Thomas Edison manufacturing company holding, although it was “denounced as scandalous and obscene to viewers” at the time.
The library, with a total of 20 scenes, also includes a short recorded a year later, in 1897, by the legendary filmmaker Georges Méliès, called ‘After the Ball’, and which includes simulated nudity.
Of course, it was not long before the arrival of the more explicit films. A few years later, in the 1920s, images began to be recorded where it was possible to see threesomes.
What is Remastured?
According to the platform, “Remastured is an innovative project that uses the latest technology to restore some of the oldest and most exciting erotic films ever produced.”
With the help of artificial intelligence, the system is able to colorize even the oldest images.
However, when it comes to the finer nuances, the algorithms employed are inexperienced, which is why the experts used “machine learning and 100,000 PornHub images” to provide the AI with a new “sex education” What another “trick” to color vintage erotic videos for a more modern audience.
Of course, leaving aside the nudity and eroticism, there is no doubt that it is very exciting to see how artificial intelligence technology is capable of reviving content and footage that is more than a century old.
