A new site that has been on my radar recently is Slitz, a streaming hub for AI-generated shorts.
One of their most popular performers is Mona Newman, who has starred in 7 of their episodic dramas.
Compare this to Riley Reid – the legendary AVN Hall of Famer, one of the most famous names in porn – who only has 3 credits to her name.
Now, admittedly… Riley is busy these days. She’s certainly earned a big enough bag to take some time off from filming.
The crazy thing is: Mona Newman has never actually drawn breath. She is not real.
She is an entirely synthetic AI porn actress.
Welcome to the strange new world of AI pornstars…
“AI pornstar” is one of those trendy phrases that gets thrown around freely these days. Depending on who’s selling, it could be a licensed digital twin of a real performer, a performer who never existed (like Mona), a prompt box that outputs whatever you type… or, at the grubbier end, a deepfake on the wrong side of the law.
I’ve been taking a look at the current state of play in AI – and how real-life pornstars are reacting to the prospect that their work might soon be taken over by artificial pixels.
As we’ll see below – some are taking an aggressive approach.
While many see AI as an existential threat, a few of the industry’s biggest names are treating AI twins as the fast-track to a hands-off porn career.
What Even Is An AI Pornstar?
An AI pornstar is a performer whose porn is generated by AI rather than filmed.
Fairly straightforward, right?
Indeed, but this actually covers four broad genres… with varying degrees of controversy.
- Licensed twins – AI versions of real porn stars, built with their consent and (in theory) paying them every time you play. Famous examples include Riley Reid, Mia Malkova, Sophie Dee, Bonnie Blue.
- Born-digital stars – entirely synthetic performers with recognisable names and faces. We now have the tech to replicate an AI likeness sufficiently for it to grow an entire filmography.
- DIY generators – tools that let you build your own fantasy performer using text prompts or filters.
- Deepfakes – real people’s faces and bodies used without consent. Definitely NOT a category we recommend. This use case is under massive public scrutiny, and likely to be pushed fully underground, even though the genie is out of the bottle.
I’ve been poking around all four – trawling creator rosters, counting cast credits and following the money.
What follows below is an index of who’s licensed where, which platforms actually pay the performers, and a selection of made-up stars that are rapidly gaining traction (some even have their own social media followings!).
We’ll also look at how to tell a real twin from a rip-off…
Licensed AI Porn Twins
This is the part of the industry that would have been unfathomable a few years ago.
And it’s the bit most people mean when they search for AI pornstars: a real performer, with a real career behind her, who has signed a deal to license her likeness – effectively allowing upstart companies to build an AI version of her.
It’s not just a face swap and a scan of her body. The newer tools are trained on increasingly larger and larger piles of data – from the tiniest mannerism, to how the performer ‘talks’ on her social media.
This eerily constructed AI twin can then act as a virtual GF. It can chat, flirt, send pics, take calls and – increasingly – star in its/her own scripted porn.
We don’t have exact contract details to examine, but given the growth of the industry, it’s fair to say the top performers will be getting paid a decent chunk for their likenesses. Some of them are even orchestrating the process with their own startup investments.
For the consumer, the appeal is obvious: you get a convincing Riley Reid at 2am, yours to chat with, or to watch in a series of dynamic scenes that she never had to film.
That’s the pitch, anyway.
So… what companies are cashing in on the trend?
Candy.ai – An All Star Cast
If we’re going to start anyway, it has to be with Candy – the mountain gorilla of AI girlfriend apps. It recently opened the doors on its creator programme with an initial batch of three AI twin pornstars: Sophie Dee, Mia Malkova and Renae Erica.
At the time of writing, as I check the Candy Creators page, that has grown to 17.
The headliners are Lana Rhoades (brand new), Riley Reid, Mia Malkova, Sophie Dee, Asa Akira, Lexi Luna, Bonnie Blue, Bridgette B, Emma Hix and – another fresh arrival – Lena the Plug.
I like how Bonnie’s card doesn’t show a follower count.
Rather, it just states: “1057 men”, which – if you’re keeping count – is the number she bonked in a notorious publicity-driven shagfest.
Each of the twins on Candy can be accessed through a conventional chat room messenger, or with a call button (still in beta). Sophie Dee and Mia Malkova also get Creator Cams – simulated live rooms with tips and private shows.
From this pool of names, a growing number has also signed on for Candy Shorts: short, vertical AI porn dramas in five-ish episodes. Riley Reid is the most prolific of the licensed names there… and if you watch these episodes, it’s hard not to be taken back by the realism.
I mean… this really does look like Riley:
And the clone has her mannerisms, too.
You have to look really hard to spot the AI.
And in Riley’s case, the only obvious giveaway I could find was a brief flash of her Twin’s back tattoos, which were inconsistent with the real “human” versions.
Given AI’s perennial fussiness with fingers and toes, it doesn’t surprise me that Japanese script would be such a pain in the balls to capture in video.
But… this is where we’re at now.
Compare the AI tell above to the famous clip of Will Smith eating spaghetti, and it’s amazing how far generative video has come in just three short years.
As for the licensing, Candy builds every twin “in direct partnership with and with the full consent of the creator“.
And – just in case a normie believes he’s chatting with the real deal – each profile carries a disclaimer that the content is AI-generated and the performer doesn’t read your messages.
Might seem like overkill, but I can guarantee it will save somebody’s embarrassment at some point!
OhChat
Candy doesn’t reveal the exact numbers that it pays its famous partners, but London-based OhChat is much more transparent.
Creators keep 80% of what fans pay, and each one signs an agreement setting how explicit their twin is allowed to get, on a scale of “one to four”.
Yes, even with AI, some performers are still selective about what their Twins should be allowed to say – or do.
The roster here is catered towards crossover celebrities and OnlyFans names: I found twins of Lily Phillips, Katie Price, Carmen Electra, Brandi Love, and the retired legend Lisa Ann.
I also found, wait… is that, Prime Icon Moments Jordan?!
Yes… it is.
Captured in time, in better times.
For many adult personalities, the prospect of being captured and synthesised – at your peak – must be both a blessing and a curse.
Time waits for nobody… except a gooner fapping in his mancave.
Alas, OhChat is a flexible beast – and pretty much any aspiring model can get involved.
Building a twin is an open process that takes just 30 photos and 30 minutes of talking to a bot. From there, the machine works its black magic and loads the performer onto the site, to be toyed with by the masses.
As for pricing, it’s heavily subscription based: Lily Phillips’ twin costs $9.99 and offers DMs, images, voice notes, videos and simulated cam calls.
JustSext
JustSext looks rather different to Candy and OhChat – it relies on a TikTok-style swipeable interface, with the focus firmly on voice and video.
Inside, you’ve got live voice calls, one-to-one AI video calls, custom photos and a library of AI videos of each twin.
In total I counted 55 creators, including some reappearing names: Sophie Dee, Lena the Plug, Savannah Bond, Alexis Mucci and Rebecca J.
The company behind it, Synthetic Turing Experience Technologies (STXT), is the same LA startup that built MiaAI with Mia Malkova back in 2024.
There were reports from the New York Post suggesting that models take half the revenue, with token packs running from $25 to $120.
Joi AI
Another popular entrant to the genre.
Joi (formerly Eva AI) has a mix of licensed performer twins that sit alongside the more conventional “build-your-own” girlfriends. Its signings include Adriana Chechik, Farrah Abraham (see above), Chloe Amour and Alix Lynx.
Lynx actually gave WIRED a pretty frank explanation of why a performer would sign on for a service like this.
She licensed her likeness because the twin can safely provide experiences she would never agree to on set – gangbangs, DP, anal, and other extreme set-pieces.
The types of scenes that are considered a hard day’s work for even the most experienced pornstar.
Now, AI does the scenes for her through sites like Joi, while she gets to keep her own boundaries.
Clona
Clona got a ton of attention when it launched back in October 2023, no doubt helped by the fact that its co-founder is Riley Reid.
We covered the site on AdultVisor multiple times during those earliest pitches of AI made with performers rather than of them. The platform has been through some bumps since then.
It was actually reported offline earlier this year after losing its payment processor, but it appears to be back… albeit with a lot more competition from the services above.
When I last checked, the roster had been gently expanded with twins of Riley Reid, Lena the Plug, Dainty Wilder and streamer Dan Dangler, complete with uncensored AI photos, and a Pro plan starting at $9.99/month – a third of its original $30 launch price.
The message in that reduction is loud and clear: there’s a ton of competition in the AI twin porn space. The punters have plenty of options.
While the rest of the world is scrambling for more data centres to handle the steady march of AI, adult companies are already locked in a ferocious pricing war to offer the cheapest sexting!
The AI Pornstar Index: Who’s Licensed Where?
As you can see above, many of the licences for AI pornstars are NOT exclusive. Famous porn actresses can – and do – appear on multiple sites.
Of the performers below, seven have AI versions on more than one platform, and Lena the Plug and Riley Reid are each on three.
If you think you’ve got the official Riley Reid twin, you’ve actually got one of the official Riley Reid twins.
There are many such versions, each offering a slightly different “experience” thanks to the data they’ve been trained on. None of them share a brain, a memory or a personality…
| Performer | Where her AI twin lives | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Riley Reid | Candy, Clona, Slitz | Chat, calls, photos, AI porn dramas |
| Lena the Plug | Candy, JustSext, Clona | Chat, calls, video calls, photos, AI dramas |
| Sophie Dee | Candy, JustSext, Slitz | Chat, calls, video calls, simulated cams, AI dramas |
| Mia Malkova | Candy, Slitz | Chat, calls, simulated cams, AI dramas |
| Asa Akira | Candy, Slitz | Chat, calls, AI dramas |
| Bonnie Blue | Candy, Slitz | Chat, calls, AI dramas |
| Lexi Luna | Candy, Slitz | Chat, calls, AI dramas |
| Lana Rhoades | Candy | Chat, calls, AI dramas – modelled on her at 19 |
| Bridgette B | Candy | Chat, calls |
| Emma Hix | Candy | Chat, calls, AI dramas |
| Lily Phillips | OhChat | DMs, images, voice notes, videos, simulated cam calls |
| Lisa Ann | OhChat | Chat, custom scenes |
| Brandi Love | OhChat | Chat, images |
| Savannah Bond | JustSext | Chat, voice and video calls, photos |
| Alexis Mucci | JustSext | Chat, voice and video calls, photos |
| Alix Lynx | Joi AI | Chat, custom content |
| Chloe Amour | Joi AI | Chat, custom content |
| Adriana Chechik | Joi AI | Chat |
| Dainty Wilder | Clona | Chat, voice, photos |
I’ll update the index as rosters change – which they do, almost constantly!
A note on Slitz: its licensed-star dramas are the same series Candy sells as Shorts – Bonnie Blue is My Stepsister, Private Lessons with Mia Malkova, Under Her Watch with Sophie Dee – just on a different site run by a different company.
I’m not sure if they have some kind of white label agreement. From my testing, it appears that Candy is token based while Slitz goes for a more traditional monthly pass.
The AI Pornstars Who Never Existed
Depending on whether you believe AI will save the world, or destroy it, this is one of the developments that will have major ramifications for Porn Valley.
It won’t be long until AI outnumbers humans in a list of debuting pornstars – in any single calendar year.
And to see how this might happen, you need only look towards Slitz.
Slitz is a streaming site for short, vertical AI porn dramas – 204 titles when I counted, mostly five episodes long and running five to ten minutes in total. The site says that every performer is AI-generated, and only “a few” are licensed twins of real stars.
You see Mona in the image?
It’s the same prolific Mona Newman I mentioned above. She is one of the most popular stars on the site… even though she doesn’t actually exist.
Slitz publishes a cast list with each actor’s number of credits. So I tallied them up, and – in this case – the machines have already taken over:
| Performer | Slitz Appearances | Real person? |
|---|---|---|
| Diana Demont | 7 | No – AI-only |
| Mona Newman | 7 | No – AI-only |
| Jessie Hallam | 6 | No – AI-only |
| Margot Vey | 6 | No – AI-only |
| Mila Nowak | 6 | No – AI-only |
| Veronica Parker | 6 | No – AI-only |
| Asa Akira | 5 | Yes – licensed twin |
| Mia Malkova | 4 | Yes – licensed twin |
| Bonnie Blue | 3 | Yes – licensed twin |
| Riley Reid | 3 | Yes – licensed twin |
| Sophie Dee | 1 | Yes – licensed twin |
The six busiest performers on the site… are all pixels conjured by machines.
If you think about it, that’s not really surprising for an AI-first studio.
A licensed twin comes with a contract, a revenue share, approval rights and – most importantly – a real woman who might object to her likeness being dropped into My Stepsister Still Calls Me Loser.
Diana Demont comes with none of that, and neither does Ms. Mona Newman.
One thing is for damn sure: your AI roster is never going to join a union!
An AI-only cast member will do all the wacky plots, and all the extreme sex scenes that would severely impact a human worker’s schedule – and she’ll be ready to go again as soon as you’ve copy and pasted her library files.
Recurring AI characters are also building something that looks suspiciously like a fanbase.
Mona turns up as the stepsister in several different series – Mona: My Wild Step-Sister, Mona’s Obsession, Mona’s Worst Enemy (15 episodes… if you’re keen).
It won’t be long until we have filmography sites popping up tracking AI pornstar credits… that or IAFD is about to get absolutely firehosed trying to keep up.
Meanwhile, On The Creator Marketplaces…
The same pattern is emerging.
Fansly has banned photorealistic AI content, and OnlyFans only allows AI if it “resembles the verified human” behind the account. There’s certainly scope for exploration there…
This has left Fanvue as the defacto home of fully synthetic models, in a market that is wide open and ripe for interruption.
It’s not small change, either.
AI-only models make up around 15% of Fanvue’s revenue, and the top names – “Aitana” and “Emily Pellegrini” – reportedly pull in $10,000–$20,000+ a month.
(Neither has ever needed a day off or an STI test. So all of that money arrives in the pockets of their puppet string creators.)
Build Your Own: The AI Pornstar Generators
The third tier of AI porn skips the performer entirely and hands you the director’s chair.
This has been one of the most explosive growth trends the adult industry has ever seen.
You know the drill by now: type what you want, get images or a NSFW video back. Pay for more credits, rinse and repeat.
We’ve already covered the top AI porn generators in extensive detail, but the one remaining stumbling block here is consistency between iterations.
Anybody can use a text prompt to generate a believable single porn scene or photo. Actually recycling the same person into multiple scenes… and retaining the likeness… is much trickier.
Here, too, there are companies emerging with novel solutions.
For example, SinfulX pitches itself as an “AI adult studio run by people from traditional porn production”.
Rather than cloning anyone outright, it builds “original” synthetic characters from licensed source imagery of performers whose content it has the rights to use.
(Its first named collaborators are Angelique Rose and Georgia Koneva.)
It’s a smart middle path, and there are many other adult AI tools looking to join the party.
Deepfakes: The AI Pornstars Nobody Signed Off
Generators are fine for inventing someone new.
They are very much not fine for recreating someone real.
If you type a real person’s name into one of these tools and ask for nudes – a porn star, a Love Islander, the girl from accounts – you’ve crossed the line from fantasy into seriously murky legal territory.
And in places like the UK: deep shit.
The platforms know it, too. Civitai – the go-to hub for AI image models – banned real-person likeness content after new laws and the loss of its payment processor.
We have to be honest about this: a big slice of what gets called AI porn was never licensed by anybody… and it’s actually the output of rogue users who want to ‘nudify’ people they already know.
It’s scraped scenes, face-swaps and fan-made chatbots.
And yes, it’s also actual porn stars.
404 Media found that Riley Reid was one of the most popular characters on DIY chatbot sites like Janitor.ai and Chub.ai – and she had nothing to do with building any of them.
That’s partly why she co-founded Clona: if someone was going to sell an AI Riley, it might as well be Riley, right?
It isn’t only randoms, either.
The Daily Beast reported that some major production companies quietly added contract clauses letting them use a performer’s likeness for AI content without telling her first.
Performers: read your contracts. Then read them again!
How to tell a licensed pornstar twin from a rip-off
- Check the performer’s own socials. Every legit twin above was announced by the performer herself. If she’s never mentioned it, be suspicious.
- Look for her name on a creator roster, not just in a character description. Candy, OhChat, JustSext and Clona all list their twins as named creators.
- Look for the disclaimer. Legit platforms are upfront that it’s AI and that she isn’t reading your messages.
- Be wary of “any celebrity you like” sites, Telegram bots and anything sold as uncensored [famous name] AI. If a site can make anyone, it hasn’t asked anyone…
So… Where Is All This Heading?
If I had to guess:
It won’t be long until the number of recognised AI porn stars dramatically outnumbers active human porn stars.
I give it two years max.
Three things jump out to me:
1. Performers are selling their younger selves
Lana Rhoades, one of the industry’s biggest stars of recent years, actually stopped filming in 2017.
Her brand-new Candy twin is, in her words, “based on 19-year-old Lana” and will “pick up where I left off”.
Lisa Ann told WIRED, with one eye on her future earnings, her twin “is never going to age“.
What we’re likely to see is not just the performer – but the performer’s peak, frozen and sold on subscription, forevermore into the future.
You can already see the financial incentive of this with Katie Price rolling out a Jordan chatbot from her 1990s heyday.
There are some ethical questions here, and some self-esteem ones: what happens when the twin is more popular than the woman it’s based on?!
2. Nobody owns “the” twin
As our index shows, the big names are spreading their likenesses across multiple platforms, and the same Candy-made dramas turn up again on Slitz. I’m sure they’ll appear elsewhere in short order.
After all, the AI pornstar ecosystem is still brand new – it’s really just a few months old.
Platform diversification is great for performers’ income in the short term.
Longer term, it turns a famous face into a commodity – and commodities get cheaper.
Some performers have already said twin money has slowed over the past year.
Once every single human pornstar has licensed her likeness, and has to compete with a growing army of AI pornstars, how will the royalties be split?
Will we even need ‘real’ pornstars in the future?
3. The payment processor is still a major factor
Clona – the performer-founded, consent-first original – went dark earlier this year after losing its payment processor, and has only resurfaced at a third of its launch price.
Civitai stripped out real-person likenesses after losing its processor. Meanwhile, the platforms with deep pockets and robust billing are the ones signing the biggest names, and this will provide a short-term moat against what is likely to be a stampede of copycats.
How long that advantage holds is anybody’s guess.
We’re already at the tipping point where pretty much anybody with a Mac Mini will be able to ‘vibe produce’ porn.
If you’ve read our coverage of what the payment processors did to adult games on Steam and itch, you’ll know the pattern: whoever controls the till decides what gets made.
AI pornstars are no different.
In an emerging genre littered with controversy, licensed twins are the most honest version of AI porn going – performers sign up willingly, get paid for their likenesses, and keep control over their AI twins.
But “licensed” isn’t the same as “fair”, and until more of these companies publish their revenue splits, there’s going to be a lot of jostling for position as new entrants seek to compete with Candy Shorts, Slitz and the other pretenders.
The born-digital stars, though?
They’re the ones to watch.
And that should keep a lot of agents awake at night…
AI pornstars have gone from a novelty to a massive business opportunity in just three years – and the most interesting stars in it don’t exist yet. Literally.
Have you tried a licensed twin – or fallen for a pornstar who turned out to be pixels?
Let us know which ones you rate, and any platforms we’ve missed!
