The Creator Economy

Creators, porn stars turn to AI doppelgangers to keep fans entertained

Built in the adult-content creators’ image, the selfie-generating chatbots let viewers boss them around at all hours. What happens when their fans find out real people “can’t be manipulated in the same way?”

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December 19, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST
Sophie Dee with her cat, Lola, inside her home in Las Vegas on Thursday. (Mikayla Whitmore)
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Sophie Dee’s artificial-intelligence doppelganger talks like a sparkling conversationalist: bubbly, curious, eager to please. It never sleeps or takes vacation, and it even creates fake selfies that make Dee look younger, bustier and blemish-free.

But Dee, an adult-content creator in Las Vegas, doesn’t see SophieAI as a threat. The image-generating chatbot, trained to mimic her look and speech, makes her money with every fan who uses it, starting at $4.99 a month. And after 20 years in the pornography business, Dee, 39, said she is happy to outsource some of her identity for a less demanding revenue stream.