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I had a long conversation with an OnlyFans star a while back. One of the very surprising things that I learned was that she paid a very large portion of her ear

I had a long conversation with an OnlyFans star a while back. One of the very surprising things that I learned was that she paid a very large portion of her earnings to a firm that outsourced chat and audience interaction to a mix of AI and real humans. Her fans never knew the difference.

bronco21016 2y ago
There's a great podcast about a company providing an AI service of this. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/latent-space-the-ai-engineer-podcast-practitioners/id1674008350?i=1000655829673 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/latent-space-the-ai-en...
pests 2y ago
I totally believe this. If you look at a earnings screenshot of, for example, Bhad Barbie, she earned ~ $40 million in 2022. $15m from subscriptions and the other $25m from paid messages.
Semaphor 2y ago
Paywall, but here's an article written by one of those chatters: https://www.wired.com/story/i-went-undercover-secret-onlyfans-chatter-wasnt-pretty/ https://www.wired.com/story/i-went-undercover-secret-onlyfan... There's also a Reddit AMA by one, but I can't find the link.
matwood 2y ago
Basically Ashely Madison's business model at scale.
kjkjadksj 2y ago
Its an open secret at this point in that industry. People have done AMAs as people who maintain a string of whales for some fake persona like this. The only people not in on the joke are these whales who probably would refuse to believe it’s a joke even if you put the evidence in front of them.