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How long until the most popular Only Fans creators are fully AI?

I could see these pseudorelations, which are already mediated by so much fakery, just continue to evolve in that direction?

Maybe everyone gets their own OnlyFan creators which are tailored/adapt to their personal desires?

In the future all of this is AI generated, multimedia, tailored to your wants, available and fresh 24/7.

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That sounds like the death of Only Fans.

There is plenty of generic porn for free on the internet. The only advantages an Only Fans creator has over that are

- being more "real" and relatable

- forming parasocial relationships through engagement

- providing "niche" content (like the teasing egirl non-nudes Belle Delphine became famous for)

AI gives you none of that. It's not very good at niche content, and for the other two it can only give illusions that will break as people get used to AI. In the beginning there is a novelty factor to AI interactions, like Twitch's Neuro-Sama, but that will wear off. And after that all you're left with are disillusioned customers.

I bet ai would be excellent at niche content. Why would it be? You believe there is a lack of training data?

Humans are likely to be even better, is I think their point.

You don't need to dig hard on Instagram to find 100% AI generated models.

They seem to be pictures and videos from actual people, but AI-modified to add the characteristics of the AI model they're pretending to be.

Some of them have the IG subscription system active and most of them have OF links or similar in their profile.

Reporting them to Meta does nothing.

Not OF because they need an ID that matches the person.

I believe FanVue (OF competitor) allows these AI creations though?

In fact, looking on their web site the first model in their list of top creators is AI:

https://www.fanvue.com/

This was my first thought as well. It won't be long before OnlyFans is swamped with bots from organized syndicates, and individuals will be forced out.

For sure. I think AI image generation (and soon AI video generation) can keep up a steady flow of new content for any well established creator these days who has enough training content. No need for new photo sessions in real life or worry about them aging.

There's already copious amounts of scammers on there. I had a buddy who would go on Reddit and scrape tons of photos from all the NSFW subs, then create OF accounts, pump them up with some fake followers and then wait to see how much cash they brought in. Rinse and repeat as necessary.

Porn has become such a commodity, access to the images and videos to provide fake content has never been easier. Using bots to schedule posts and respond to comments has lowered the bar even lower and clouded the ability for people to tell the difference between what is real and what is fake.

First, they came for OF creators, and I did not speak out

I am surprised we don’t have more YouTube influencers who are AI generated. A lot of the opinion YouTubers can likely be replaced by AI, eg take a news item and then represent their worldview and perspective as the prompt and ask for a script. Then pad it out with appropriate AI generated videos to go along with the script. You would be missing the custom graphics still, but it would be getting close.

Why bother when most of the viewers themselves are bots anyway?

somewhere between 20 and 40% of all short videos recommended to me have AI involved at least somewhat, and a full 10% are 100% AI, from the captions to the graphics to the audio.

Capcut has(had?) a feature to just pump this garbage out. I thought i had a video on youtube i made with capcut but apparently i have scruples and didn't even upload it privately.

There are quite some, just mostly in the form of short videos.

Never - and I hold this belief for most social media. As genAI gets better there will simply be a trillions of slop out there rather than simply billions. There is already more content out there than a human can reasonably watch.

The best OF creators have simply mastered distribution. Either they have taken success in one market and pivoted to OF or they are relentlessly marketing themselves through other platforms and viral stunts.

I have yet to see an AI master the distribution side. At the least good genAI will see the rise of male OF creators

> At the least good genAI will see the rise of male OF creators.

i can imagine the backlash, as if it were already happening. a decent amount of the OF "creators" are making 7 figures a year off this, and lots are making median yearly pay in a month. Having to share that with men who are technically adept and good at marketing is gunna chafe.

> There is already more content out there than a human can reasonably watch. I submit there's more "9/10 or better" content than anyone can reasonably watch or experience, even if you set some arbitrary cutoff date like, oh, february 22nd, 1988 and before is all you're allowed to consider.

Law and Order (one of my favorite background noises) has something like >650 hours of content, and i've watched it all. Multiple times. that's nearly 1/3rd of a work-year!

I think we’re already heading in that direction. As generative models improve, it’ll become cheaper and easier for creators, or platforms themselves, to spin up AI-based companions that feel personal, available around the clock, and perfectly tailored to each subscriber’s tastes. Tools like https://roleplayr.ai are just the start; we’ll likely see many more services offering on-demand, individualized role playing based on any image/context as the technology matures.

OF creators need valid ID, so they can't create a totally fictitious profile with nobody behind it.

BUT... from what I understand some agencies managing these accounts are training models with hundreds of photos of the creator and then using that to push out more photos in different outfits and locations without the creator being involved at all.

Maybe, but I suspect many lonely people will want to know there is a "real" person on the other side of the screen.

I'm not at all sure that's true.

I've been a fanfic writer, spinning up fictional characters for company and writing their exploits, and it was indeed compelling and interesting in its own right. I think more people than you suspect will go for the hollow pretend version, especially since they're already aware the 'real' OnlyFans person is not gonna come seek them out. Why not go for the clean break of an entirely fictional thing?

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