I came across an interesting article in Rolling Stone that talked about two computer science students that used Stable Diffusion to create a fictional 19-year-old named Claudia (@Cl4ud14_), who was beautiful and horny, and then sold her nudes on Reddit. You know what? It worked.

“F/19 feeling pretty today,” Claudia’s post reads. She’s got straight black bangs and giant blue-green eyes, with just the socially appropriate amount of cleavage sticking out of her grey tank top. With her alabaster skin, delicate features, and vaguely indie hairstyle, she looks exactly like someone the average Redditor would obsess over, and indeed, the comments on Claudia’s post on the subreddit r/faces are all variations of, “hot” and “you’re very gorgeous.” Except for one. (From Reddit)

“For those who aren’t aware, I’m going to kill your fantasy,” the comment reads. “This is literally an AI creation, if you’ve worked with AI image models and making your own long enough, you can 10000% tell. Sorry to ruin the surprise, I guess.”

In another Reddit thread, they post “F19 i hope i look fuckable to you” and then post a cropped image.

The concept of generating AI porn isn’t new. Since the release of Stable Diffusion earlier this year, it’s been a hot topic, but these guys took it to a new level.

They created a whole fake persona, Claudia, who is 100% AI-generated, and then posted her naked pics on subreddits.

She’s the brainchild of two computer science students who tell Rolling Stone they essentially made up the account as a joke, after coming across a post on Reddit from a guy who made $500 catfishing users with photos of real women.

They made about $100 selling her nudes before someone caught them, but they still do it just on other subreddits.

“You could say this whole account is just a test to see if you can fool people with AI pictures,” says the team behind Claudia, who declined to disclose their real names. “You could compare it to the vtubers, they create their own characters and play as an entirely different person. We honestly didn’t think it would get this much traction.”

Even though adult-content creations like Claudia are ostensibly fictional, does it make her any less sexy? Is she any less real than a porn star you’ll never meet? A porn star you’ve only ever seen online?

The question of whether AI adult creators could one day supplant real ones fundamentally misunderstands the appeal of websites like OnlyFans, which are predicated on the idea that a subscriber is directly interacting with a model.

For now, at least, the technology behind AI is simply not developed enough yet to pose a real threat to the adult marketplace: The capabilities are still overblown. One day perhaps, it might be a possibility but not right now. At best, right now, all you get are some lifelike images. But video? No way. Not even close.