You Talking to Me?

Of course, like you, I never use the internet to access adult entertainment. But if I did, the last thing I’d want to do is to carry on a conversation with the actual person behind the titillation. But many people do want those kinds of interactions and pay for the chance to foster them. What they don’t realize is that they’re actually communicating with a “chatter,” one of several people paid to pretend they’re who you think you’re talking to. Which brings us to OnlyFans, “a p-rn-driven, subscription-based website where content creators and their followers can develop what it calls ‘authentic relationships’ by messaging each other. But many popular OnlyFans creators, including p-rn stars earning millions of dollars through the website, outsource the task of messaging their subscribers to paid impersonators known as ‘chatters.’ It is their job to coax subscribers into tipping the creators and buying more p-rn.” A Reuters special report: A juggernaut fueled by a deception.

+ In the very near future, the idea of chatting with human impersonators will seem antiquated. You’ll be talking to AI. Meta will help people build their own digital twins. Talking to my digital twin. Now that’s my kind of community.