Everything That They Want Me to Be: Adult Entertainer Licenses Persona to AI Developer
Says it’ll please her fans while avoiding performer burnout
When many creative professionals appear to be ever-increasingly concerned their work has been or will be used to train artificial intelligence without their permission or a flood of cheaply produced content could threaten their livelihood, adult performer Chloe Amour’s recent selling of her likeness to an AI developer might, at first glance, be more than a little surprising.
However, as Amour explained to the Daily Mail, she considered the decision carefully, explaining that while she tries to meet the needs of her fans, “sometimes there are things that they want to talk about with me, or there are things that they want from me that I might not be able to give them.”
The answer? “But through AI, they have the same likeness of me, and it’s like I can be everything that they want me to be in a sense.”
Amour’s licensing of her persona suggests new ways to use AI systems to make life easier for adult content creators while pleasing their audiences.
Smarter not harder
Amour had some initial doubts about the licensing agreement though she soon changed her mind, after realizing the arrangement would provide her with a degree of self-sufficiency. “When you’re booked for [porn] shoots, you’re at the beck and call of that company,” and “‘You’re gonna be on set for anywhere between, four, six, eight, ten, twelve hours, who knows?”
In the end, she wished she’d taken the AI development company’s offer sooner, noting, ” I should’ve signed up with them sooner because I would’ve gotten a bigger bonus!”
This is me—for a price
Amour’s sale of her adult entertainer persona might be relatively unique; but other, non-explicit performers have also begun licensing themselves.
In fact, the current SAG-AFTRA, Screen Actors Guild agreement grants its members permission while laying out specific guidelines for its members to market their voices and likeness.
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As covered by Forbes, the contract enables how “Performers can specify which brands or industries they are willing to work with, consent on a job-by-job basis and see the proposed audio copy for each ad before they accept the deal,” to ensure complete transparency and equitable pay.
New creators, new creations
Prophetically, earlier this year, we briefly addressed the possibility of adult performers packaging and selling their likenesses and personas to others, including AI development companies.
In addition to the reasons Amour outlined, this would also provide adult performers with much-needed job security as they age.
There’s no reason why adult performers couldn’t create and sell more than a single version of themselves.
Just as authors may have more than one stylistic voice or write under a variety of different pseudonyms, so too, explicit entertainers might assemble a selection of distinct characters, then hand off that role to an artificially intelligent surrogate.
Everything for everyone
In a similar vein, it’s a safe bet that right on the heels of adult performers marketing their personas to AI developers in the not-too-distant future, we’ll see artificial companions—which already are being sold with a selection of different, frequently AI-generated personalities—sold with options to run a licensed adult persona.
When the genie is completely out of its lamp, digitized adult performers may become plug-and-play accessories for everything from explicit game characters to seductively-voiced personal assistants.
While it’s far too early to tell, that same Daily Mail piece asked the same of CamSoda’s Vice President, Daryn Parker, who replied that for certain people, an AI character may provide a more satisfying—and emotionally safe—experience, “‘Users who may not feel comfortable attending a real-time cam show may prefer a model experience that is fully anonymous or where they don’t feel like they have to shy away from certain roleplaying interactions or fantasies that they may feel uncomfortable doing in a chatroom or webcam show where others are present.”
Radio didn’t make reading obsolete, and television didn’t wipe out the movie industry, so we can expect that there will always be a place for fresh-and-blood performers in addition to their digitized selves.
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