PornHub uses AI to reproduce the oldest pornographic movie in 4K

PornHub has delved into the past and remade some of the oldest pornographic films in existence. The Remastured project (warning: this link will lead you to some very NSFW images) uses artificial intelligence to restore and color skin flicks as early as 125 years ago. The porn giant used machine learning and 100,000 adult images and videos to teach artificial intelligence how to color movies (perhaps it also learned a thing or two about how people pass the time 100 years before the advent of smartphones).

Several algorithms were used to restore the films with "limited human intervention," according to PornHub. The process started by reducing noise and sharpening and contrasting images. The videos were boosted to run in 4K at 60 frames per second, and audio was either remastered or a new soundtrack was added.

The titillating movies that PornHub has restored include The Kiss from 1896, which featured the first smooch captured on film. Fun fact: the 18-second movie was distributed by a holding company for Thomas Edison's manufacturing firms, and PornHub says it was "denounced as shocking and obscene to viewers" at the time. The library of 20 scenes also includes a 1897 short from legendary filmmaker Georges Méliès called After the Ball, which includes simulated nudity.

It did not take longer before more explicit movies appeared. So if you like to watch 1920s trio or "quirky role playing" in 4K format with clumsy silent movie music, then you will know where to find it.