Will AI Take over Sex Work?
Remember Fran Dreschers heart felt speech when SAG went on strike. I do!.. It was the only few moments we heard a flicker of Truth, Justice, courage in the world. She talked about how AI / big Tech we're going to take over actors and writers jobs. Could this be true for sex work? It most certainly will be. For now it's illegal. So the vampires are at Bay but that won't always be true. I encourage you to re-listen to her speech at the bottom. The actors and the writers knew what was at stake. The big Tech and AI were total game changers their jobs are at stake.
Dead internet theory
I'm sure most of you have heard of the "dead internet theory" at some point. For those who haven’t, let’s talk about why it’s so unsettling. At its core, the conspiracy suggests that many of the people you see and interact with online are bots (in turn, these bots interact with each other). With the rise of AI, the internet, once vibrant and organic, has gradually become synthetic. Many believe it began to change intentionally around 2016 and has only accelerated since then.
Image courtesy of Security Week, April 21, 2025
Recently, Meta announced plans to deploy AI-generated bots across its platforms to boost user engagement. It’s estimated that nearly 64% of the comments and content we see online are now generated by AI. A new Europol report warns that “experts estimate as much as 90 percent of online content may be synthetically generated by 2026,” particularly media created or manipulated by AI—like deepfakes. Marketers are being urged to be transparent and disclose when content is AI-generated, to maintain trust with their audiences.
But isn’t this the opposite of what social media was supposed to be? It was meant to help real people connect, share ideas, form relationships, and build communities. Now, it’s slowly transforming into a dystopian, corporate-controlled echo chamber. It feels like we're being herded—nudged to think, do, and say what we're programmed to, through media that’s no longer social, but synthetic.
We may be heading towards a lonely future
Meta seems proud of this. They’re actively using bots to increase engagement. So, when you post something online, you might get a comment like “Wow! Great insight!”—but it could just be a bot, offering empty praise to keep you coming back. It’s all about manipulation, using positive reinforcement to boost interaction metrics.
And here’s where it gets even darker: social media is legally open to children as young as 13. That means kids could be unknowingly interacting with bots—bots that could feed them harmful ideologies, like glorifying slavery, promoting racial segregation, or romanticizing monarchies. Who knows what kind of twisted narratives are out there? This, to me, is a form of abuse—of children, of all of us. And it’s not just Meta. Reddit, X (formerly Twitter), and other platforms are doing it too.
“In psychological warfare, the weak points are flaws in how people think. If you’re trying to hack a person’s mind, you need to identify cognitive biases and then exploit them.”
movie Her
This all reminds me of the movie Her. In it, a man goes through a breakup and, feeling isolated, signs up for an AI girlfriend. She comforts him, talks with him, even acts like a therapist. They fall in love. But she has no body—they can’t consummate their relationship. So, they hire a sex worker as a surrogate. Then comes the twist: he discovers that this AI, his “girlfriend,” is romantically involved with thousands—maybe millions—of other lonely men, all at once.
The sex worker in this movie has no agency, no backstory, no personality, no thoughts, no feelings, she's only a body. The relationship has been severed, between mind, body and the woman. The man only identifies with the company, the machine. She's only a body. But the movie raises some good questions. Capitalism likes us this way alone and lonely.
The actress who played “her” Scarlett Johansson says, she Declined ChatGPT’s Proposal to Use Her Voice for AI – But They Used a Soundalike Anyway: ‘I Was Shocked’ Scarlett said.
Her (2013)
By Spike Jonze
Could this be our future? A world where men, desperate for connection, fall for AI girlfriends and turn to sex workers as physical surrogates? Could Big Tech hijack even that relationship, inserting itself between real people and commodifying intimacy? If tech companies can insert themselves into every aspect of life, what’s to stop them from fully outsourcing love, companionship, even sex?
Let’s also talk about the loneliness epidemic in the United States. Imagine someone truly isolated, whose only positive human interactions happen online. Or someone going through a breakup, depending on their online connections to self-soothe.
I have friends who describe themselves as introverts or say they’re on the autism spectrum. It surprises me how many of them frame it like something is wrong with them, instead of seeing that something is wrong with society. It’s like we’ve replaced a sociological problem with a psychological diagnosis. Instead of asking what’s broken in the world, we blame ourselves.
This mindset becomes a convenient excuse: “I’m just an introvert; I don’t need to see people in person.” But that cuts us off from a real-life connection. I don’t think our ancestors survived by hiding in isolation. We are tribal creatures—we need each other. One person pitches the tent, another cooks, another babysits. That’s community. There’s a broader push for disconnection: you don’t need to know your doordash driver, your neighbor, or the makers of your phone. And this isolation is profitable.
2D Wives vs. 3D Wives?
Now imagine bots targeting socially isolated men with AI girlfriends that seem just real enough, like in Her. The internet becomes a kind of live-action play, with you as the star. But it’s all a setup. The goal is to get you to reveal your vulnerabilities and dreams, only to redirect them.
What’s stopping the oligarchs from doing this for real? What’s to prevent them from pushing lonely men to spend all their money on sex surrogates, while severing any real, emotional, cognitive, or psychological relationship with another human being? If AI can simulate intimacy, why would Big Tech stop at anything short of replacing it entirely?
If you know what movies are really for—to manufacture consent, to model behaviors for future realities—you might wonder: are we being conditioned? What’s stopping this from becoming our future?
It seems like the oligarchy is bent on pushing the limits—controlling what we own, what we feel, what we create, and now, even how we love.“Sex and technology have always co-evolved,” says University of Sydney’s Raffaele Ciriello. “Just as prostitution is ‘the oldest profession,’ porn sites are some of the oldest corners of the internet. However, the dystopian potential of sexbots for mass-customized, corporate-controlled monetization of our most intimate sphere is unprecedented.”
“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.”
Sources:
People Are Choosing AI Sex Workers Over the Real Thing https://www.vice.com/en/article/people-are-choosing-ai-sex-workers-over-the-real-thing/
Scarlett Johansson Says She Declined ChatGPT’s Proposal to Use Her Voice for AI – But They Used a Soundalike
By 2026, Online Content Generated by Non-humans Will Vastly Outnumber Human Generated Content https://oodaloop.com/analysis/archive/if-90-of-online-content-will-be-ai-generated-by-2026-we-forecast-a-deeply-human-anti-content-movement-in-response/
Watch: Fran Drescher delivers fiery speech on SAG-AFTRA strike (if sex worker only knew the kind Bullies and thieves your dealing with) https://youtu.be/mphpgRI00js?si=akP2WHNj_5CPp4iq
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/meta-ai-users-facebook-instagram-1235221430/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(2013_film)