Page with a dark background, fluorescent writing and endless lists of preview videos. Some titles contain names of Italian actresses and influencers, others of ordinary people. At the top of the page it says “Cum Tribute Italy“. The tributes are videos of men masturbating and ejaculating on photos of women, they can be printed or on iPad or smartphone screens, the format is always the same: dirtying the image of a woman, then sharing it and boasting about it. The phenomenon has existed for years, the hate pornography it is as old as the Internet, but now there is artificial intelligence which it makes everything easier, more realistic and humbling.
In fact, before the photos of the cum tributes were stolen from social media, now with AI software it is possible to undress a woman with a click, creating the so-called deep nudes which go to fuel the Cum Tribute market. At the site where we entered we found photos and videos of Italian women. There are images of actresses, politicians, artists, but also photos of less followed influencers and requests on ordinary women: “These are the videos I dream of seeing on my colleague. Shall we fuck her?”, we read among the comments. “I want it on my sister’s face.” Users ask intermittently new women to “tribute” writing names and surnames in the comments.
What we saw inside is not a simple pornographic drift, but a form of organized digital violence. Once upon a time it was necessary to steal photos, today an algorithm is enough: one click, and artificial intelligence undresses anyone, transforming any face into a naked body ready for humiliation.
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What we saw inside the tribute forum
The section of the forum we were in is within a pornographic platform. Here users not only share their videos but they created a community: they comment, they ask for new subjects to be “tributed”, they exchange links and suggestions to find “material”. Some are photos stolen from social media, but most are images modified with deepnude software. For example, we found TikTok videos where the user, dressed in the original clip, instead appears naked on the forum.
Some clips have 80,000 views. Categories include “Italian”, “teen” “Instagram photos”. Deep nude bots are also sponsored on the page. “Create the video with the AI of your neighbor, friend or anyone you want”it says, attached a link that refers to a software.
In the comments some describe what they would like to do to the victims, others review the videos. “Dude, I still want to see her humiliated“. “Excellent workmanship, shall we pay tribute to you too?”. “How do I do this with my cousin?“. These are just some of the comments we have read. The forum is a catalog of humiliationwhere digital violence is celebrated as a group game, and the woman portrayed becomes an object of desire and domination.
Hate Pornography 2.0: How AI Amplifies Digital Violence
Cum tributes are present on various platforms, even mainstream sites like Pornhub have a dedicated section. Now, however, AI – as we saw in the forum we entered – allows us to create tailor-made images, fueling the phenomenon. It’s one thing to do it on consenting porn stars, another on unaware women, even worse if the victims are stripped and sexualized with a click.
Digital culture experts call this phenomenon “hate pornography“. The first wave arrived in the early 2000s, with forums for sharing photos of ex-girlfriends. Then the “revenge porn” sites, and now the era of AI, which has opened a new chapter: that of non-consensual deepfakes.
We had already talked about the misogynistic forums where women are undressed with a click on Fanpage.it. The Cum Tribute page follows this line. It exploits technology to perpetrate web-based violence. With artificial intelligence the body becomes raw materialinfinitely manipulable, ready to be shared and “tributed” without limits. The victims don’t know it, but their images are consumed, commented on and resold as if they were a product. Technology didn’t create the problem, it just made it faster, more accessible and more brutal.
