After OnlyFans, AI ‘girlfriends’ are tech’s next pitch to lonely men
Al Jazeera
AI-powered companions are a growing industry amid rising loneliness and disillusionment with modern dating.
At first glance, “Jenny” looks like a young, attractive Asian-American woman with a penchant for posting flirty photos and captions on her X account.
Even if some of her features look a little enhanced – her skin is unnaturally smooth and her bust unusually large for her petite frame – it is easy to look past the slight uncanniness of her appearance in an era of widespread cosmetic procedures and photo editing tools.
In fact, Jenny is not a real person, but an artificial intelligence-generated model, available for hire as an online influencer or virtual companion.
Jenny is the brainchild of LushAI, a startup that bills itself as the world’s first AI-powered modelling agency aiming to rival OnlyFans, the subscription-based website best known for hosting adult content creators.
Jenny offers essentially the same services as the human content creators that make up OnlyFans, except she is powered by an algorithm – which means she can work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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