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Derek Lam has more than 31,000 followers on TikTok and nearly 40,000 on X as of this writing. He is shirtless a lot, he dances a lot, and he is shirtless dancing a lot, which may explain how he got so many fans. His comments are filled with compliments (\u201cbeautiful\u201d) in different languages (\u201chombre bello y sensual\u201d) and superlatives (\u201cthis might be the finest man on the internet\u201d) accompanied by different emoji (red hearts, crying laughing, lips). Their responses make it seem like Derek Lam is the first and only beautiful man they\u2019ve ever seen, which may explain why he is also selling \u201cexclusive,\u201d seemingly adult, content.<\/p>\n

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He is also, possibly unbeknownst to his many admirers, AI-generated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To be fair, there were some signs that this man was not real: Despite the multiple videos, Derek never speaks. His videos are also rather brief, just seconds long. A real hot person probably would have parlayed a following of this size into brand deals or \u201cget ready with me\u201d videos. And the selfies on his X account show a completely different man just three years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Still, the followers of Derek I talked to didn\u2019t even notice he was AI because he seemed to blend in so seamlessly with the other hot men on the internet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Derek isn\u2019t the only AI thirst trap showing off defined abs for likes and money. He\u2019s one of an increasing number of completely fake, AI-generated figures sinking their fangs into the real models, influencers, and porn stars who populate our feeds, sucking up their beautiful faces and bodies, and using them to profit, without a penny going to the real humans they fed from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When it comes to the damage AI could wreak on society, an army of Dereks tricking horny people into giving him likes \u2014 or, worst case, money and Amazon gift cards \u2014 doesn\u2019t exactly sound like the singularity doomsday scenario that we\u2019ve been warned about. It\u2019s clearly unfortunate for the adult entertainers competing with deepfakes and a fraud risk for their fans, but one might believe if they don\u2019t fall into one of these two groups, they\u2019re relatively safe and unaffected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But there\u2019s something more going on here. History shows that porn and sex drive innovation in the tech industry. The way tech platforms treat sex workers is typically a glimpse into the future, and a warning about how tech platforms will eventually treat all of us. If human desire demands the capability to steal, loot, and turn anyone and everyone into something for sale \u2014 possibly into hot Dereks \u2014 is anyone safe?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Dereks of the internet are a bleak look at what\u2019s happening in the real world: nothing belongs to us anymore \u2014 not our looks, our beauty, our sex, and our art. Our most human desires are slowly being synthesized, with or without our consent. And AI is making it all possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Deepfake technology has gotten alarmingly good in recent years<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Artificial hots like Derek are considered \u201cdeepfakes,\u201d an umbrella term for AI-generated media (audio, video, or both) that resembles a real-life person.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When deepfakes first started appearing in late 2017, they were fairly low-quality, making it easy to tell when someone had used a rudimentary app to paste a celebrity or politician\u2019s head onto a different body. Still, it wasn\u2019t very long until people started wielding this technology to be nasty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe first set of deepfakes were actually used to create pornographic videos. They replaced the subjects in those videos with the faces of celebrities,\u201d Siwei Lyu, a professor at the University at Buffalo who studies digital forensics, told me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Because the quality of those videos was bad and the content was often absurd or unrealistic, it was easy to tell they weren\u2019t real. Those clunky apps needed a lot of data \u2014 videos, images, etc. \u2014 of real people to produce crappy videos; Lyu explained that this is why you mostly only saw deepfakes of politicians and celebrities at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As the technology got better, it became less reliant on having a huge amount of data. Instead of needing a whole archive, the new versions of these apps can pretty much run on nothing. \u201cThey do not need that much data to train a model anymore. Some of the most recent algorithms just need a single picture \u2014 just a single picture of someone,\u201d Lyu said. And the quality is better too. Lyu said that there are AI programs that can now change a person\u2019s appearance and voice in real time, like in Facetimes and Zooms or on live broadcasts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Given how many of us are constantly posting photos and videos online, it is now extremely easy to create a convincing social media presence for a person who is not real, and to use it to catfish unwitting people on the internet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is the problem. It\u2019s becoming more and more challenging to visually tell deepfakes apart,\u201d Lyu said. \u201cSeven years ago, when I started working in this area, checking them was not this difficult,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lyu is an expert in digital media forensics and machine learning, and he went through one of Derek\u2019s videos frame by frame and pointed out some obvious AI tells. There was a distorted watchface with weird swirls instead of numbers and a moment in the video where all of Derek\u2019s fingers on one hand were the same length. Lyu also pointed out that Derek\u2019s chest hair fluctuates, appearing dense in one frame and then dissipating in another.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Through social media, I attempted to contact the owner of Derek Lam\u2019s account with evidence from Lyu that these videos are artificial; I did not hear back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During my deep dive into Derek Lam\u2019s social media presence, I looked at the accounts he was following. I noticed that of those accounts, someone who goes by the name Vance Ford also had tens of thousands of followers and had nearly identical videos to Derek. The flexing, dances, movements, and music they were set to were all the same, but with what appeared to be a different man performing them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I attempted to contact Vance through DMs on social media and did not get a response. I also e-mailed two models who appear to be the actual people that the Derek and Vance AI personas were trained on, but they didn\u2019t respond.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I sent two of Vance\u2019s videos to Lyu, who analyzed them manually and with AI-detection software. He confirmed that \u201ctheir movements are nearly identical \u2014 consistent with generation from a shared motion source,\u201d and noted that the Vance videos had moments of distortion, unintelligible text, and facial warping.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYoung Magnum PI\u2026Tom Selleck,\u201d commented one admirer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What happens when real people follow fake hots <\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cWow I\u2019m a boomer,\u201d said Patrick, one of Derek\u2019s followers on X, after I told him that he might be following an AI-generated thirst account. (Vox agreed to let Patrick, and Derek\u2019s other followers, use a pseudonym so they could speak frankly about being thirsty for a fake guy.) Prior to our chat, Patrick had no idea Derek was likely a deepfake, and maintains that he didn\u2019t even know he was following the account. Patrick is 33 years old, roughly 30 years younger than the youngest boomer, but being fooled by a hot AI man has made him feel old and vulnerable, susceptible to scams and perhaps light financial crime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis was probably some smut account I followed before I moved all that over to an alt,\u201d Patrick said, noting that in daily life, he\u2019s only ever used AI to help organize and write emails. Wielding AI to create fake videos and photos does not thrill him, nor does the potential of seeing more of Derek.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cA person being real, someone you could run into at a bar, is half the fun,\u201d Patrick told me, explaining some of the accounts he follows. \u201cAI porn is not of interest, to me, anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Not being able to tell the difference between the real beautiful men on the internet and the AI-generated beautiful men on the internet not only makes Patrick feel old, but also a bit \u201chollow.\u201d The fact that the people we are attracted to are so unrealistically hot, so perfect, that machines can step in for them and go relatively undetected is a reflection of the current state of unattainable desire, which is just as scary as how good these programs have gotten at mimicry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cBlack mirror shit,\u201d Patrick said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The guys I DMed about Derek felt ashamed once they found out the truth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s embarrassing and he\u2019s not my type,\u201d said Chris, 33. \u201cI\u2019ve come across several AI accounts, and this one is really good, I have to say. But you can see there\u2019s like no life in his eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chris made clear to me that the humiliating thing isn\u2019t that he follows attractive men on the internet. That isn\u2019t a big deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What irks him that he got duped. Chris works in digital marketing and has seen AI used professionally to tabulate calculations for campaigns, and has used it privately for silly things like memes. \u201cAI can do a lot of things, things we probably should not want it to do,\u201d he told me. \u201cI think what\u2019s also scary\u2026is that everybody has access to it. And yes I already unfollowed this person.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chris believes there\u2019s something more nefarious afoot. He thinks that whoever is running Derek may have hijacked the username (i.e., the original person Chris was following) and then populated it with AI to drive up follower counts \u2014 a scam he\u2019s seen online before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is super concerning and super scary because you eventually could be texting with this person,\u201d he said, describing a hypothetical situation where unknowing users could be lured into subscribing to fake content and, ultimately, giving the account their personal information, whether that\u2019s photos or perhaps even passwords.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis person could be selling your nudes,\u201d he said, explaining one extreme end point of a possible scam. \u201cBut you were like jacking off to AI content and that\u2019s embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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AI deepfakes are bad for real thirst traps too<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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While flirting with or masturbating to a fake person is awkward but ultimately manageable and private, Cherie DeVille has an even more complicated problem with AI manipulation. If DeVille is scrolling social media, there\u2019s usually a chance that she\u2019s running into an AI version of herself saying things she\u2019s never said and doing things she\u2019s never done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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DeVille, an adult star who calls herself \u201cThe Internet\u2019s Stepmom,\u201d has roughly 4.5 million followers on Instagram. But her account is often down, which she says is the work of fraudsters that are determined to send traffic to DeVille\u2019s AI imposters and get her actual account removed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s almost always the fake accounts of me reporting me,\u201d DeVille said. \u201cThey want to be the biggest me. They want to be the biggest scammer. They want to use my altered AI images to scam fans without my real account getting in the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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DeVille and others I spoke to explained to me that deepfakes have been an annoying reality in the adult entertainment industry for years. The way the scam goes is that someone would fake photos or videos of DeVille (or any star), create an impostor profile, and then trick DeVille\u2019s fans (e.g., through social media DMs) into following that copycat. Later they\u2019d squeeze them for money, payments through Paypal, or Amazon gift cards, perhaps by offering unique content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIf you made a fake me and I don\u2019t do double anal, but my AI can, they could have all kinds of \u2018exclusive\u2019 stuff,\u201d DeVille said, explaining that double anal is grueling work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The lack of protections becomes even clearer when you consider that not every deepfake is a carbon copy. Some personas may borrow a face from one actress, a torso from another, or a pair of legs from a different star. This can make fakes tougher to track down and prove, and more difficult to fight from a legal aspect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWho owns your face once it\u2019s scraped into AI systems? Who profits from your digital clone? How do performers protect themselves from unauthorized replicas or manipulated content?\u201d Rachel Steele, an adult star and the CEO of Red MILF Productions, said to me in an email. \u201cThose questions are still very unanswered.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Like DeVille, Steele worries about how many of the people using AI to create and consume content don\u2019t seem to consider the artists, models, writers, performers, etc. that these engines have been trained on. It\u2019s bad enough to watch AI slurp up and regurgitate your written work or your digital art. Some people also have to contend with LLMs that have been trained on their own faces and bodies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cReal creators are competing against characters that can be flawless in every image, never age, never have bad lighting, never get tired, and can appear available 24\/7,\u201d Raissa Bellini, an OnlyFans creator who touts gymnastics and firebreathing among her unique skills, told me of the impossibility of keeping up with a machine. She explained to me that she\u2019s seen people create AI-generated personas with the looks of popular models or influencers, only tweaking small details like hair color or eye color.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A spokesperson for OnlyFans told Vox via email that the company\u2019s terms of service prohibit deceptive or inappropriate content, and said that all content posted on OnlyFans must belong to a verified 18+ OnlyFans content creator: \u201cThis means that you can only share content which has been generated, altered or enhanced by AI if it clearly features the verified OnlyFans creator and the user can tell that the content has been generated, altered or enhanced by AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bellini explained to me that while OnlyFans has measures to protect its creators, some smaller subscription and adult-content platforms do not have the same kind of guardrails. She also noted that most social media sites do not have strict rules or enforcement when it comes to AI, and that she\u2019s seen the algorithm appear to favor AI over human creators.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAI raises questions not only about competition, but also about likeness rights, authenticity, audience expectations, and what happens when fans can no longer easily tell the difference between a real person and a generated character,\u201d Bellini added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What\u2019s stopping a stranger from creating an AI thirst trap of you? Nothing, really. <\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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For Deville, Steele, Bellini, their cohort, and even you and I, there are minimal protections stopping someone creating an AI us and making money off of these fake variants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to Jason Schultz, a law professor and director of NYU\u2019s Technology Law & Policy Clinic, humans have, for the last couple of centuries, generally been protected by copyright and right of publicity laws.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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AI obviously didn\u2019t exist when these laws were written, and courts now have to interpret the laws in the context of all of this new technology, in combination with other existing rights (like free speech). Schultz told me that there are more than 100 current cases pending about training AI with copyrighted material.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He also explained the difficulty of determining whether or not an AI-generated persona constitutes a violation of someone\u2019s right of publicity. It\u2019s more clear-cut when the human involved is a celebrity, because their public persona and appearance is so distinct. It gets murkier when the humans aren\u2019t well known, and the AI creates a persona that\u2019s more of an amalgam than a one-to-one copy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt would raise this question of whether these avatars are based on a particular entertainer, or are they more of an aggregate?\u201d Schultz explained to me. But even if courts side with the humans whose likenesses are being used to create fake personas, Schultz cautions that the technology will always accelerate faster than court decisions are handed down. \u201cI think that the thing that worries me a little is we\u2019re going to get these sets of decisions in two years, but we\u2019ll be dealing with the next three generations of technologies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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DeVille, who has been working in the industry for nearly two decades, told me that without better legal protection, she isn\u2019t hopeful for the future of porn or, more broadly, any type of art.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIf my income started tanking and their theft was at the point where I couldn\u2019t compete with literally myself, there might be no choice but to retire,\u201d DeVille said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But she also wants to make it extremely clear that she isn\u2019t against AI; she would just like to be in control of it. That means being able to own her likeness, her voice, her image, and the ability to choose whatever she wanted to do with it \u2014 or at least get some compensation or have some legal protection if someone\u2019s using Cherie DeVille without her permission.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt would be a beautiful way to extend my career beyond what my knees can take,\u201d DeVille told me. But, she added, \u201cif someone\u2019s making an AI of me doing double anal, I should be making the money.\u201d<\/p>\n

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