How to Tell If You’re Buying Nudes of a Real Person...or AI Porn

Artificial intelligence is already being used to generate nude models. Obviously.
From VHS to Web 1.0, pornographers have always been early adopters of technology, so it should be no surprise they’re pioneering the use of artificial intelligence to sell sex. According to a recent Rolling Stone article, enterprising smut-peddlers are using AI to create computer generated simulacra of women in order to sell their “nudes.”
Claudia, the creation of a couple of computer science students using Stable Diffusion, has been posting all over Reddit for the past three months. She doesn’t exist, but shares naked pictures, posts about her sexual interests, and responds to comments—everything a real person might do to sell nude pictures. Judging by the thirsty comments, it seems to work for a lot of people. This particular robot-woman seems to have been created as an experiment, but her authors report they made over $100 selling her pictures before other Redditors called out the deception.
How many other AI creations are out there posing as real people isn’t known. The technology isn’t quite advanced enough to make the ruse fully believable, but the time is fast approaching when it will be. While OnlyFans, the internet’s leading adult content subscription service, has a strict verification process that will likely weed out AIs, sites like Reddit don’t, so there’s no foolproof way to tell for sure whether the online model you’re lusting over isn’t actually a machine (not that there’s anything wrong with that). But there are some tells you can look for.
How to Tell If You’re Buying Nudes of a Real Person...or AI Porn