The hentai market is genuinely gigantic, but it drags a very peculiar and contradictory element: images of uncensored penises and vaginas are illegal in Japan. Artists comply with authorities' requirements using stripes, circles, pixelation, and other resources, and it can take a long time before an "international version" removes the censorship. What's the alternative? Letting an algorithm handle that job. DeepCreamPy has been around for almost a year and has some limitations, but it fulfills its basic task.
Censorship and Its Consequences
Many believe hentai is dying. Reports of miserable wages and extreme outsourcing (to China, South Korea, or the Philippines) have multiplied in recent years, yet others directly blame censorship for its decline. For example, the use of tentacles in certain projects dates back to 1814 with "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" leading the way, but today tentacles are there to escape the law. In Japan, no one can draw, photograph, or film genitals without censoring them.
https://old.neoteo.com/museo-nacional-de-japon-publica-anime-de-comienzos-del-siglo-xx/Stripes, circles, pixelation, white patches. All artists must place something to cover the most "complicated" angles, so to speak, but they do it post-design because there's always the possibility of licensing content outside Japan. At the same time, there is no shortage of web users who translate and republish uncensored versions of different stories. Now, after the notable impact of DeepNude and the use of artificial intelligences, the question is: how viable would it be to apply them to remove censorship from hentai?
My only option is to repeat the main image. DeepCreamPy has no interface, and Google will tear out my liver if I publish the experiments...
The answer comes in the form of DeepCreamPy, a project by GitHub user "deeppomf". Basically, any interested user must download the Windows-compatible build (346 megabytes for beta 2.0), edit the image to process by replacing censorship elements with pure green color following the instructions, copy the edited and original to the corresponding folders, and run the DeepCreamPy executable.
DeepCreamPy's strong point is penises and vaginas without major obstructions. A censored anus or nipple cannot be processed by the artificial intelligence, and it is definitely not compatible with animations or video scenes... for now. The fact of having to edit each image by hand to replace the original censorship with a green reference becomes very tedious in record time, but the alternative is even worse.
https://old.neoteo.com/los-mangas-mas-largos-del-mundo/DeepCreamPy was trained with a dataset of more than 100,000 images, covering genres from yuri/yaoi to futanari, although some extreme subgenres were left aside to avoid contaminating results. And speaking of results... not that good. DeepCreamPy easily removes black bars, but needs additional training with mosaics and white bands. In other words, patience. Its last update was published 15 days ago, and it can only improve.
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