

There have been some amazing advances in the digital creation of people’s faces. It has envisioning a world of digital sex workers. The use of this technology has been occurring for a few years for stock photography and digital lifestyle influencers and we can expect it to be a big part of digital sex work soon. The examples I’ve seen certainly look real to me and these are the ones I know to be fakes. I wonder how many faces I’ve seen that belong to no true human. It makes me feel uncomfortable to think about it as I hate to be lied to, to be misled. I’m not the only one. People have stolen my photos and used them to pretend to be me. Fans were very disappointed when they thought they were in a relationship with me but it was some strange man. It took me years to get the photos taken down and that’s just one account. I know there must be so many others out there. It reminds me of the webmasters back in the day who handled all the text and customer interaction on the behalf of a porn performer and her fans thought they were communicating with her when in fact it was the webmaster (who either purchased the license to her scenes or hired her and created a site for her). Something similar is currently going on with many of the top models and performers on Only Fans. They have a team managing their accounts because their subscriber count is so high that the model needs help maintaining the account while she focuses on content creation. Some are transparent about this and others are not. I don’t think I need to say which approach I prefer. Back to the fakes and digital sex work It’s going to be very interesting when the technology is applied to porn more and more— especially for personalized GFE type services. Fans will be communicating with someone other than the model not because of the volume of fan requests but because there is no human matching the face of the model. They are turned on by a digital sex worker. This is right around the corner and something I think sex workers, clients and customers need to be prepared for. We need to ask ourselves what we want from our sexual entertainment and services. What is real? What is true? And how do we determine this? Photo: definitely me in the early 2000s