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Four Unexpected Reasons to Worry—or Not—About AI-Generated Adult Content

By M. Christian
May 13, 2024
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Getting what you want may not be as good as having what you need

Creators and consumers are growing increasingly concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence-made media on the adult entertainment industry. 

In this vein, let’s examine several ways AI-created adult content might change us, our desires, and the business side of things—positively and negatively.

Every erotic wish come true

For a long time, adult media might be likened to a scavenger hunt, a situation where people with specific sexual interests have had to settle with what they can find.

And even if they can locate books, stories, and movies that hit at least some of their unique sexual buttons, it could feel like settling for some, but not all, of what they’re craving.

For if you yearn for male-identified, lederhosen-wearing clowns getting frisky with inflatable farm animals, you might find something featuring one, but rarely, if ever, two of those desires.

That used to be the case, but now, with the advent of AI-generated media, we can make a nearly limitless number of images, films, explicit stories, or erotic chatbots, each filled to the brim with every sexual desire imaginable.

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Little room for surprises—or growth

While the ability to generate everything and anything you or anyone else desires sounds ideal, it might have several unforeseen side effects.

Valerie A. Lapointe, a PhD psychology candidate at Université du Québec à Montréal, and Simon Dubé, a Research Fellow at the Kinsey Institute, postulate that it might lead to people getting emotionally trapped within their own endlessly satisfying fantasies.

They write, “Users may find themselves gradually drawn deeper into a world where their desires are continuously met, furthering risks of dependency or social isolation.”

Another worrying aspect of getting our sexual needs endlessly fulfilled is this might also rob us of sexual discovery—and limit our personal, sexual evolution.

You see, the thing about needing to search for adult content you enjoy is it also exposes you to unexpected or just plain old different erotic experiences—something you’re likely to miss if you only play in your fully customizable erotic sandbox.

Valuing human-created erotic media

Just as fast-food joints have a different market niche from five-star restaurants, there’s an extremely good chance that fast, cheap AI-generated explicit content won’t replace human content in the adult industry.

If anything, AI content may strengthen demand for human-produced work, boosting its popularity: first, as there’s a high probability machine learning systems can’t—at least for a decade or two—replicate the various nuances found in hand-made books, movies, or illustrations and, two, people are apt to crave explicit media with more of a human touch.

It also might be the result of, as we mentioned before, getting everything you want yet lusting after the unpredictable, which AI—incapable of producing content that isn’t based on what others have already done—can’t do.

May the most creative survive

It is probable that some writers, actors, filmmakers, animators, and others may need help competing with AI-adult production systems.

But competition between artificial intelligence and human creators might prove beneficial to everyone—including the adult entertainment industry, which has an almost one hundred billion dollar impact on the global economy.

Until recently, the business was fueled by what humans were able to produce. High quality or low, it’s all we had. Now imagine what might happen as explicit content-creating AI systems begin forcing flesh-and-blood creators to up their game.  

Faced with cheaper, more adaptable AI competition able to generate their customers’ wildest fantasies, the business might be compelled to expand what erotica is and can be by working with and not in conflict with AI systems and so help—customers and industry alike—evolve sexually.

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M. Christian

M.Christian (they/them) loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer they have six novels,12 collections, 100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to their name. Their non-fiction regularly appears in many sites, but they're most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of their erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing [they] can't write about… and brilliantly.”

Reflecting their unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, their stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. Their collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of their stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, their fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Brushes, Painted Doll; and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sex tech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—their ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with their friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, they have lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.
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