An AI Challenge: Do Hot Chicks Have an Exclusive Right to Profit from Hot Chickness?

AI-generated hot chicks on platforms like OnlyFans, Instagram, and others increasingly compete with human influencers and models, raising the moral question, who has the right to profit from hot chickness?

The Unethical and Illegal: Using Real Likenesses

When AI-generated content directly imitates or replicates the likeness of real individuals without consent, the moral and legal lines are clearly crossed. Such creations not only infringe on personal rights but also represent a violation of intellectual property.

A Different Story: Generic AI-Generated Hot Chicks

It's different when AI-generated hot chicks are entirely generic, created without mimicking specific individuals. These AI images and personas appeal to audiences without infringing on the likeness or identity of real people.

Generic AI-generated hot chicks profiting on platforms like OnlyFans or Instagram can be viewed as an evolution of content creation.

The Super-Democratization of Hot-Chick Monetization

Before social media, hot chicks seeking to monetize their appeal faced significant hurdles. Traditional avenues like modeling for magazines or acting in movies were controlled by industry gatekeepers who dictated terms and reaped the lion’s share of revenue.

Social media and subscription platforms like OF changed this by offering creators a direct line to their audience and their audience's wallets. This model democratized hot chick monetization, both by expanding access to audiences and reducing middleman layers.

Generative AI takes this a step further. Creators of AI generated hot chicks can monetize hot chickness without being hot chicks. This is a super-democratization of hot chick monetization.

The Illusion of Connection: The Value-Add of Hot Chickness

The appeal of human influencers, particularly those in the hot chick category, often rests on a psychological hook: the illusion of accessibility, the parasocial relationship. Many fans, followers, or subscribers are drawn in by the fantasy that they might form a connection with their favorite influencer - even date her. This is why so much content in this sphere includes bits about dating and relationships, while avoiding the visual presence of a boyfriend or husband.

Here's an example of a hot chick doing a bit on Instagram that plays on the idea that she's a tough date for someone not willing to engage with her intellectual detours:

The idea is to make her army of simps think - or rather feel - that they have what it takes to handle her, that they can live up to the challenge and become her boyfriend.

Another tried and true marketing tactic is influencers claiming they struggle to find dates because they are “intimidating” or some other preposterous nonsense. Again, this is attention-bait aimed at men almost desperately longing for the opportunity to meet a hot chick.

To what extent, or how soon, can AI hot chicks inspire parasocial relationships that increase their value to users from merely being pleasant to look at to engaging in conversation of sufficient consumer value? And how can human hot chicks counter this development?

A recent article in the online magazine 404 spells out the challenge:

Elaina St James, an adult content creator who promotes her work on Instagram, said she and other adult content creators are now directly competing with these AI rip-off accounts, many of which use photographs and videos stolen from adult content creators and Instagram models. She said that while there may be other changes to Instagram’s algorithm that could have contributed to this, since the explosion of AI-generated influencer accounts on Instagram her “reach went down tremendously,” from an average of one to 5 million views a month to not cracking a million in the last 10 months, and sometimes coming in under 500,000 views.

“This is probably one of the reasons my views are going down,” St James told us in an interview. “It’s because I’m competing with something that’s unnatural.”

Pirated content - especially in the hot chick and adult entertainment categories - is as old as the web and probably the Internet itself. Instagram and other major platforms likely will get a decent handle on how to deal with such content, if only be excessively elevating verified users, similar to how Google favors what it effectively considers trusted brands in search results.

(I avoid using the term "rip-off" since much human-created content on social media are rip-offs rehashed by different humans. Think person-at-construction-site-witnessing-calamities, dances, lip synched lyrics and movie quotes, and so on. Social media creators don't exactly form a beehive of originality).

The real challenge is the generic AI hot chick content, content that is not pirated but also does not portray human models. That content quickly will get much cheaper and easier to create, it will be more life-like and capable of somewhat meaningfully interacting with fans.

Many fans of hot chicks are so eager to buy into the fantasy they won't care whether they're spending their money on a human model or a bunch of nerds churning out AI tramps from an office in North Macedonia.

Consequently, social media hot chicks may have to settle for diminished earnings, leave the game, develop behaviors or service features that differentiate them from AI generation at scale, or explore opportunities where physical presence is the key value add.