Steven Jones’ porn business, which once earned him half a million in sales per month, collapsed in 2013 due to fierce competition from free streamers such as Pornhub.
But the self-described sci-fi geek now says he’s getting back into the adult content game, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) he’s using to help clients create custom pornography featuring images of their AI-generated “dream girls.”
More chaste AI-generated models, created by a marketing team in Barcelona, Spain, are already generating between $11,000 and $3,200 per month in advertising deals.
Welcome to the brave new world of post-human modeling, where “posing” joins the ranks of big box retail and rocket manufacturing in the industries where managers benefit from a labor force of unpaid machines and virtual workers.
At this point, these AI-crafted models are already realistic enough to fool people who see models up close far more than the rest of us.
“One day, a famous Latin American actor texted her asking her out,” said the Barcelona-based AI model designer.
Rubén Cruz said that he and his business partners, Aitana’s other designer Diana Núñez (center), and the Social Media Manager of the AI model, Sofía Novales (right), decided to switch to AI models for their Instagram ‘influencer’ marketing company because of the hassle of human diva personalities
Their company, The Clueless Agency, struck gold with AI model Aitana López (above). The team also created a second virtual model, called Maia, who is “a little bit shyer.” Both names were chosen to secretly hint at their ‘AI’ origins
That designer, Rubén Cruz, who built the AI model Aitana López and founded the agency that “manages her career”, The Clueless Agencysaid he immediately recognized the famous fan in Aitana’s DMs.
“This actor has about 5 million followers and some of our team watched his TV shows when they were kids,” Cruz said Euro news.
“He had no idea Aitana didn’t exist,” he added.
Cruz said he and his business partners – Aitana’s other designer Diana Núñez, and the AI Model’s Social Media Manager, Sofía Novales – decided to switch to AI models for their Instagram influencer marketing because of the hassle of human diva -personalities.
“We did it so we could live a better life and not have to rely on other people who have egos, who have manias,” Cruz said, “or who just want to make a lot of money by posing.”
Behind the scenes, Cruz and The Clueless team meet every week to plan the next Instagram-worthy moments from Aitana’s fictional life. They decide which destinations she will travel to, what she will wear and what personal information she will share
But like AI porn impresario Steven Jones, Cruz said part of his own motivation was financial.
As Euronews put it, Cruz “was going through a difficult period because he didn’t have many clients.”
Behind the scenes, Cruz and The Clueless team meet every week to plan the next Instagram-worthy moments from Aitana’s fictional life.
They decide which jet-set destinations she will travel to, what she will wear and what personal information she will share with her more than 300,000 followers.
“In the first month, we realized that people follow lives, not images,” Cruz said.
“Since she’s no longer alive, we had to give her a piece of reality so that people could identify with her in some way. We had to tell a story.’
After a decade out of porn, self-proclaimed sci-fi geek Steven Jones says he’s getting back into the adult game, thanks to AI – which he uses to help clients create custom smut depicting their AI-generated “dream girls” (above Jones’ deepfake.com site)
The story is also relevant to Steven Jones’ more mature AI-generated modeling business, but the day-to-day focus is less on coming up with ideas than on checking his clients’ worst impulses.
Although his new company’s in-house AI image maker has guardrails to prevent users from displaying child porn, acts of violence or celebrity “deepfakes,” Jones said his clients’ perverse ingenuity keeps him awake at night.
“I see certain things that people are typing in, and I just hope they try to test the model like we do,” Jones said. the Washington Post.
“I hope they don’t really want to see what they’re typing.”
Customers of his new sites, such as deepfake.com and porn.ai, he says, are constantly developing devious solutions, oneand sometimes they work.
One example, he told the Post, was the “adult woman without breasts,” which users seemed to use in an attempt to create “childish” characters for their sick and illegal pedophile fantasies.
Jones said he and his staff have collected images that other users of his sites flag as offensive.
Their current list of blocked prompts for AI image generation already contains a thousand terms, including “high school,” despite how new their sites are.
Jones started his new AI porn companies with a longtime business partner for about $550,000, but as he told the Post, he also got funding from an angel investor he declined to name.