Steven Jones’ porn business, which once brought him half a million in revenue a month, collapsed in 2013 in the face of fierce competition from free streamers like Pornhub.
But the self-proclaimed sci-fi nerd now says he’s getting back into the adult content game, thanks to the artificial intelligence (AI) he leverages to help his clients create bespoke pornography representing their ” dream girls” generated by AI.
More chaste AI-generated models, created by a marketing team in Barcelona, Spain, already bring in between $11,000 and $3,200 per month in advertising contracts.
Welcome to the brave new world of post-human modeling, where “posing” joins the ranks of big-box retail stores and rocket manufacturing among industries where managers benefit from a composite workforce of unpaid machines and virtual employees.
Right now, these AI-designed models are already realistic enough to fool people who see the models up close much more than the rest of us.
“One day a well-known Latin American actor texted her asking her out,” according to the Barcelona-based AI model designer.
Rubén Cruz said he and his business partners, Aitana’s other designer, Diana Núñez (center), and the AI model’s social media manager, Sofía Novales (right), decided to turn to AI models for their Instagram influencer marketing company due to 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 more shy.” Both names were chosen to slyly reference their “AI” ancestry
This designer, Rubén Cruz, who built the Aitana López AI model and founded the agency that “manages her career”, The Clueless Agencysaid he instantly recognized the famous fan sliding into Aitana’s DMs.
“This actor has about 5 million followers and some of our team members watched his TV series when they were kids,” Cruz said. Euronews.
“He didn’t know 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 turn to AI models for their marketing of influence on Instagram facing the hassles of human diva personalities.
“We did it so we could earn a better living and not depend on other people who have egos, who have quirks,” according to Cruz, “or who just want to make a lot of money posing.”
Behind the scenes, each week, Cruz and The Clueless team come together to plan the next Instagram-worthy moments from Aitana’s fictional life. They decide which destinations she might travel to, what she might wear, and what personal information she might share.
But, much like AI porn impresario Steven Jones, Cruz said part of his own impetus was financial.
As Euronews puts it, Cruz was “going through a difficult time because he didn’t have many clients.”
Behind the scenes, each week, Cruz and The Clueless team come together to plan the next Instagram-worthy moments from Aitana’s fictional life.
They decide which jet-setting destinations she could travel to, what she could wear and what personal information she could share with her more than 300,000 followers.
“Within the first month, we realized that people were following lives, not images,” Cruz said.
“Since she’s not alive, we had to give her some reality so people could relate to her in some way. We had to tell a story.
After a decade without porn, self-proclaimed sci-fi enthusiast Steven Jones says he’s getting back into the adult content game, thanks to AI – which he leverages to help his clients create bespoke porn depicting their AI-generated “dream girls” (above). (Jones’ deepfake.com website)
The story is also important to Steven Jones’ more adult, AI-generated modeling business, but the day-to-day focus is less on coming up with ideas than controlling his clients’ worst impulses.
Although his new company’s in-house AI image maker has safeguards to prevent users from producing child pornography, violence or celebrity “deepfakes,” Jones said the perverse ingenuity of its customers keeps him up at night.
“I see some things people are typing, and I just hope they’re trying to test the model, like we are,” Jones said. the Washington Post.
“I hope they don’t really want to see what they’re typing.”
Customers of his new sites, like deepfake.com and porn.ai, he says, are constantly developing clever workarounds, aand sometimes they work.
One example, as he told the Post, was the “adult woman without breasts,” which users appeared to use in an effort to create “childish” characters for their sick and illegal pedophile fantasies.
Jones said he and his team pulled images that other users of his sites were reporting as abusive.
Their current list of AI image-generating blocked messages already contains 1,000 terms, including “high school,” despite the newness of their sites.
Jones started his new AI porn ventures with a former business partner for about $550,000, but as he told the Post, he also got funding from an angel investor he declined to name.