With a Horny AI on the rampage, content creators are left to face another obstacle in their daily battle of monetization. One major problem is that AI-generated content, especially pornographic material, brings in a large number of viewers. A case in point: One study found that explicit AI-generated content outperformed standard video content by 70% — indicative of the shift in viewer preferences.
There are also ethical and legal questions that we must raise when talking about AI generated sexually suggestive content. Given that platforms monetize creating access to them for creators, it should be no surprise those power centers act as a direct competitor: the content they create relies on being generated at or near zero-cost by AI. This was pushing down the price on human-produced content. By 2023, the mid-point of independent content creators saw a drop in average income by as much as 15% — likely due to AI-created content circumventing cost structures that human counterparts abide by.
What's more, the rise of AI technologies and growing accessibility to incredibly lifelike and customizable content could create something that blurs fantasy with reality. This also inverts the paradigm for content creators to manufacture pulls-inducing (and likely deleterious) emotional and psychological tension against an AI rather than a human being. Artificial intelligence is capable of generating mountains of fresh, individualized content in a matter of minutes and can compete with creators who could take hours or longer to do the same.
Not to mention the mental harm on creators. This leads to burnout, reduced motivation and further guarantees a continued cycle of low reward per play because no one wants them. While 40 per cent of content creators in 2024 report higher levels of stress due to the need for their work to be created not just quickly enough, but topped by AI-generated output.
One case that made headlines in Canada was for a content creator who claimed she saw her follower count drop by 30% after the release of an artificially created personality on the same platform. It Highlights The Dilemma When It Comes To Maintaining An Audience — One That Ghost In The Shell: Na…
Updated— —Some say the AI can be a weapon for creators to improve their content, but in reality more often than not human creativity is outperformed by the power of today's deadliest terminal. So in light of the above situation; is there room for human content creators to co-exist sustainably with AI within a fully digitized marketplace? It would seem the evidence that if regulation or influence of some kind does not happen, creators stand to lessen their effectiveness on both points.
Increasingly now, the landscape of challenges is quite visible for those who want to grasp where horny AI fits into all this.