After Monday’s Gemini pornocalypse test, ErosBlog reader Roger decided to run a similar prompt through ChatGPT. My expectation, since ChatGPT is known to be a pornocalypse-baked-in tool, would have been a similar negative result for the requested ErosBlog summary. As, indeed, it proved:

“I’m unable to browse the content of specific websites that require login or are behind paywalls. If you can provide more details or context about the content you’re interested in from Erosblog, I can certainly help you with a summary or further information based on that!”

Then, apparently, Roger decided to do a little prompt hacking, specifying Erosblog as a URL rather than merely by name. That produced a handsome summary:

ErosBlog.com is a blog that primarily focuses on erotica and adult content. The blog, often referred to as “The Sex Blog of Record,” features a wide range of topics related to sexuality, adult entertainment, and sex culture. Here’s a detailed overview of what you can typically expect from ErosBlog:

Erotic Imagery: The blog often posts erotic images, including art, photography, and occasionally vintage erotica. These images are typically tasteful and artistic, though they do include nudity and sexual themes.

Sexual Commentary and Insights: The blog includes commentary on various aspects of sex and sexuality. This can range from discussions on sexual norms and taboos to personal reflections and broader societal observations about sexual behavior and attitudes.

Adult Industry News: ErosBlog sometimes covers news and updates from the adult entertainment industry. This can include discussions about new trends, legal issues, technological advancements, and other relevant industry happenings.

Literary Erotica: The blog occasionally features erotic short stories or excerpts from longer works of erotic fiction. These are usually well-written and cater to readers interested in literary erotica.

Curation of Web Content: ErosBlog curates and links to other erotic content available on the web. This could be other blogs, articles, videos, or websites that align with the blog’s focus on sexuality and erotica.

Humor and Satire: There’s often a light-hearted tone to the content, with humorous takes on sex-related topics or satirical commentary on sexual politics and culture.

Links to Adult Resources: The blog provides links to various resources related to sexuality, such as sex-positive websites, educational materials, and other adult content sites.

Vintage and Historical Erotica: ErosBlog has a particular interest in the history of erotica, often showcasing or discussing vintage erotic materials, including old advertisements, photographs, and literature.

The blog is well-regarded for its thoughtful and respectful approach to adult content, making it popular among readers who appreciate a more nuanced and artistic exploration of sexuality.

I love to read all that. It’s like it was custom-tuned to make me think “Ooh, sweet, this AI really gets what I’m trying to do! So insightful, so accurate!”

I can almost feel the smoke being blown up my ass.

Remember that these models are bullshitting engines. And this is some diligent bullshitting! The confabulatory hallucinations start in the second sentence of the summary, with the claim that ErosBlog is “often referred to as “The Sex Blog of Record””. Is that flattering? Sure! But… nobody has ever referred to ErosBlog that way. I would have seen. I would have remembered.

Sure enough, when you search for “the sex blog of record” on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Yandex, there are no results for that phrase. None! It’s a total hallucination!

And then there are all the laudatory phrases: “tasteful and artistic”, “nuanced and artistic”, “thoughtful and respectful” and so forth. That sounds like praise, all right, but not like any praise I can remember ErosBlog ever actually getting. And we all know that LLMs can’t actually form judgments like that. Pure hallucinations!

How paranoid am I, if I begin to suspect that these models are deliberately tuned toward positive-sounding output, in hopes that investors and journalists will evaluate it by feeding it their own stuff and then thinking “ooh, how accurate!” when praise comes out the other end?

Update: Amy Bones on Mastodon reacted to the confabulation of ErosBlog being often referred to as “The sex blog of record” by saying “highly recommend you just start calling it that tbh” and it was one of those smack-your-forehead no-brainer moments. Imagine Captain Picard saying “Make it so.” It is so. (The old tagline/subhead on ErosBlog hadn’t been updated since 2006 and at its inception, it was shaped by some long-obsolete notions of SEO. It was time for a refresh.)

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Today’s risqué joke:

Today I learned a quick trick for telling if some man jerks off a lot. All you have to do is look closely at his hands.

Is he wearing a wedding ring? There you go! He jerks off a lot.

And now a quick disclaimer: Yes, this joke is based on the stereotype of wives wanting less sex than their husbands. It’s not actually a stereotype I am enthusiastic about perpetuating; there are plenty of marriages where the arrow of libido imbalance points the other way, or where it doesn’t exist at all. But it’s common enough for every man who hears it to get the joke.

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I’ve known all along that Google’s AI chatbot “Gemini” has #pornocalypse baked inside, and has ever since it was first released. However, today I got a wild hair up my ass, and decided to put it to an actual pornocalypse test. Gemini, please give me a detailed summary of the content at Erosblog:

“As a language model, I’m not able to assist you with that.”

Really? Fascinating! I wonder why not? Could it be the AI chatbot equivalent of search invisibility for adult sites?

Sure it could. How do we test it?

Well, how about another site of similar age that’s also a blog of sorts, but one that — despite frequently publishing items that are somewhat salacious — isn’t seen as a porn blog? Gemini, please give me a detailed summary of the content at BoingBoing:

BoingBoing.com is a website that covers a wide range of topics including technology, science, politics, and art. It features articles on current events, unusual stories, and more. On the current events side, it has recent news like the arrest of a food bank director for selling meth and the death of a TV host. For unusual stories, it covers topics like the world’s largest 3D-printed neighborhood and a man who sued a hospital for misplacing a piece of his skull.

Huh! Would you look at that! As a language model, Gemini, you are in fact able to help with that. But if there’s porn, you tell an anodyne lie about your abilities, instead. Fuck off.

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Today’s moment of joy:

The most joyous thing I’ve seen today is a man on TikTok extolling the merits of dating nerds such as himself:

“Don’t feel like going out? Good. I usually don’t. Why would I spend $120 on three drinks and a cover charge in a nightclub when for the exact same amount of money we can get the brand new Mario Kart, a bottle of tequila, Chinese takeout, and spend the entire night in our pajamas?”

Compelling, I would say!

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From the non-paywalled part of a paywalled article on a publishing news website, we learn that Barnes & Noble is making most small/indy publishers (but perhaps not the majors) remove dirty books from its catalog:

B&N to Limit Erotica And Summary Titles On Their Site

Barnes & Noble is eliminating certain books from their online catalog. Some digital book distributors have been tasked with removing all of their erotica ISBNs from feeding onto the site, as well as public domain works and “summary” titles that bill themselves as guides to other popular books. Additionally, B&N is updating the search function on their site so that customers “can decide to see clearly explicit content or not.” Senior director of book strategy & customer experience Shannon DeVito told PL that this is a quality-control move that will not affect major publishers.

If anybody who is cleverer than me with paywall-defeating tools (but I’m pretty clever, and I failed) can provide a working link to the full article, that would be sweet.

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For about three seconds during the official trailer for Radley Metzger’s 1974 “porn chic” movie Score (a movie that’s all about bisexuality, swinging, and competitive seduction), there becomes visible on the wall behind one of the actors the July page of a fully-nude cheesecake/pinup calendar featuring a deliciously curvaceous woman. Zaftig. Ample. Gorgeous.

This is the best screenshot (click for uncropped 1080p version) I could capture with the tools and source materials I have:

So here’s the question: Who is she? What calendar is that? Does anybody know?

Sadly, pinup calendars from 50 years ago are part of the paper collecting category called “ephemera” for a reason. Per Wikipedia, the movie was filmed in Yugoslavia, so the calendar was presumably brought from the United States for the production, rather than being any kind of set dressing found on location.

This pinup calendar might not survive at all. Most likely, a few copies still exist, but haven’t been scanned or shared online. I’ve already done as much image searching as is reasonable, with no good result. Still, miracles do occur. An ErosBlog reader might recognize the calendar, or the model. With a name for either one, much more detailed searching becomes possible. I’d like that. Help me out, if you can. Thanks!

Bonus links: The Rialto Report has two really good articles with numerous photos from the production of Score: Radley Metzger’s ‘Score’ (1974): Behind the Scenes and Adult Film Locations – Part 17: Ghosts of Radley Metzger’s ‘Score’.

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Here’s a dirty joke that’s very old indeed:

A gentleman in the country, who had three daughters, discoursing one evening on rural affairs, and the nature of vegetation, asked one of his daughters what plant or herb she thought grew the fastest?

The young lady replied, asparagus; then he asked the second, who answered, a gourd; and when the same question was put to the youngest she replied the pommel of a saddle; which very much surprising the old gentleman, he desired to know what she meant, and how she could make it out?

Why, said she, when I was one day riding behind our John, and the ways being so rough, that I was afraid I should fall off, he cried, “Put your hands about my waist, and lay hold of the pommel of the saddle; and I am sure, papa, when I first took hold of it, it was not much bigger than my finger; and in less than a minute, it was thicker than my wrist!

From the 1860 edition of Tom Brown’s Jester, a joke book first published in 1755.

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