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There's a great podcast about a company providing an AI service of this.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/latent-space-the-ai-en...

Its an open secret at this point in that industry. People have done AMAs as people who maintain a string of whales for some fake persona like this. The only people not in on the joke are these whales who probably would refuse to believe it’s a joke even if you put the evidence in front of them.

I totally believe this.

If you look at a earnings screenshot of, for example, Bhad Barbie, she earned ~ $40 million in 2022. $15m from subscriptions and the other $25m from paid messages.

Basically Ashely Madison's business model at scale.

Paywall, but here's an article written by one of those chatters: https://www.wired.com/story/i-went-undercover-secret-onlyfan...

There's also a Reddit AMA by one, but I can't find the link.