CASE STUDY Sex addicts: AI porn

Studies claim that 30 percent of all internet traffic is attributed to pornography. There’s more porn than anyone could consume in their lifetime. So, what will happen to the porn industry when AI enters the field?

How can pornstars and OnlyFans workers compete with an AI that knows our unique preferences and kinks and can create an endless supply of hyper-realistic and interactive digital porn experiences? We risk becoming so addicted to AI-generated porn that real-life sex, in comparison, will seem demanding, messy, and unsatisfying.

While AI will reduce the need for human sex performers, it will also amplify issues around deepfakes in porn, exploiting the identities of non-consenting individuals, and distorting our reality.

As interactive AI porn, coupled with personalized bluetooth enabled sex toys starts to provide increasingly realistic digital sex experiences, will porn become sex?

Meanwhile, questions around AI’s potential to reduce or increase sexual obsessions, pedophilia, sex abuse, and rape will open a Pandora’s box of ethics with outcomes we cannot currently project.