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There will always be a difference between generated content and "the real deal". Even if both kinds of content feed into a fantasy, the human made kind has the allure of potentially (however slim the chance is) being with the actors in real life. That will never happen with generated characters.
In the back of the mind there will always be the knowledge that generated content is synthetic and imagining what it would feel like being with an actor is futile, as they don't exist. Which will cement human made content for the group who cares about such things.
That is the Achilles heel of AI. Pinocchio will never be a real boy.
I agree with this. What makes porn interesting is watching actual people get their freak on. I already gave up on commercially produced content simply because it is boring to watch surgically optimized fuckbots playact poorly. The only porn that’s interesting to me nowadays is amateur content made by people who enjoy making the content, not because someone pays them for it.
AI can’t fill a niche that is essentially "real and normal people who enjoy getting it on on camera for fun not money". Unless they improve to such a degree that the viewer literally cannot identify an ai fake any more, and then we have much bigger problems.
I think it has to be somewhere in between. This 'real deal' theory doesn't explain the popularity of hentai, but at the same time, OnlyFans shows that some people reaaallly care about the personal element. I would bet niche kinks (especially those 'illegal to make but legal to watch'?) will lean heavily on AI for content, but the rest will probably change based on our culture's attitude toward AI in general.
I have to disagree with this. I agree with your point wholeheartedly but I think you're missing the bigger picture that AI content, in some metrics, is already indistinguishable from real life. I've seen Instagram "models" that at 1st, 2nd and 3rd glance look like the real deal but as you look closer you might realise it's AI. However, judging by the comments, many people don't. We're on that cusp now. It's not hard to imagine a near future where you can generate an entire fake model, setup an Instagram page, setup an Onlyfans and have real people pay for it thinking they're getting access to a real person's content.
For example https://instagram.com/lopezbeautygirl
I highly encourage everyone to go to that page. Yes, those of us who follow AI generation closely may feel that something is "off" the more pictures you see but it's also very easy to believe it's a real person! Actually I couldn't even say with 100% confidence it's not.