Sex Worker : AI Porn Isn’t Taking My Job
A sex worker interviewed by VICE magazine has brushed off fears that the sudden explosion in generative AI, including generative AI porn (despite attempts to stifle it) may leave women like her out of a job. Others, of course, disagree. The last few years have seen an explosion in a new kind of sex work, driven by user generated content ranging from webcam models to OnlyFans girls, enabling the average good looking amateur woman (and even the not so good looking) to earn a living from ‘porn’ that was previously limited to a relatively small number of professional ‘pornstars’. With the new user generated model, essentially the middle-man – the porn director and his studio – was dispensed with. All that was needed for any hot girl to make money was a faceless online platform such as OnlyFans. But now there is a new user generated revolution that is taking place, one where the user is not a hot girl, and not even a humnan – but an Aritificial Intelligence. Some, such as Twitter influencers, think it might be game over for the OnlyFans girls making up to millions of dollars a year from their armies of thousands of sex starved simps.
Prediction:
By 2025, over half of the top OnlyFans accounts will be AI-generated models secretly run by men.
(none of the women below are real) pic.twitter.com/pDdRNrAKws
— Alex Valaitis (@alex_valaitis) January 28, 2023
A real model “takes hours to create generic content,” “has to work hard to stay in shape,” and “only has one look,” Alex Valaitis, who works for a newsletter about AI, tweeted. He compared this with someone who writes prompts for machine learning technology like Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, or Midjourney, who can create “unlimited content,” “tons of diverse models,” and “personalized content for each simp.”
However, the sex worker in the Vice article disagrees. Her argument isn’t entirely convincing, relying on it does on two dubious claims. Firstly, that AI porn isn’t really anything new under the sun and wont be a game changer, and secondly, to a simple appeal to the ‘personal touch’ that only a real human sex worker can provide.
Humans have been creating “fake” imagery to jerk off to for millennia. If you’ve ever closed your eyes and thought of something while orgasming, you’ve participated in this great tradition. AI porn is nothing new. Just as erotic drawings, the printing press, photography, movies, hentai, virtual reality and robo sex dolls have not killed the demand for sex workers, neither will AI generated porn. Sorry.
Our clientele hire us for many reasons; a large part of the appeal is that we are fellow humans. To be frank, I have no interest in working with a client who’d rather be fucking a robot anyways.
Despite her apparent confidence that AI generated porn is nothing more than ‘erotic drawings’, she does feel the need to rather hedge her bets just in case it is a threat to her job. Her solution is rather predictable here – make laws against it!
That being said, AI needs to be regulated: current forms of neural networks, like most tube sites, are largely fueled by stolen content. We need to take it slow. Now is not the time to move fast and break things. Sex workers and content creators in general need our labor and intellectual property rights protected. Humanity has suffered the consequences of Silicon Valley’s rash greed for too many decades already.
How do we make these new toys into powerful tools that can benefit all of us? AI has already shown a great deal of potential in assisting with medical diagnosis and making connections across scientific fields. AI could help stabilize power grids and catch corruption. There are certain tasks that computers will naturally be better suited to; of course we should make use of them.
The important part of navigating this new technology will be protecting sex workers and other content creators. Will our lawmakers be capable of setting aside their biases and protecting the rights of the ever vulnerable hot girls? Only time will tell.
