PornAI's Steve Lightspeed - 'Hyperrealistic Interactive AI Adult Video By End Of 2025!' - Immersive Porn

The biggest question in the world of sex and porn tech right now has to be – how soon until photorealistic AI porn videos? The breathtaking advances in AI image generation over the last couple of years, together with the recent demos of the Sora AI text to video generator, have given us all hope that it may be very soon indeed. A couple of months ago, I did raise a note of caution, and suggested that there would remain formidable obstacles, such as the huge resources required to run an AI porn video generator, that would likely prevent their arrival within the next couple of years. However, one man who definitely knows more than I do on this subject is Steve Lightspeed, adult industry veteran and now the owner of Porn.ai and DeepFake.com, both homes to what in my judgment is the top NSFW AI image generator at the current time. Lightspeed, along with several other pioneers in the field of adult AI entertainment such as Brian Schuster, shared his thoughts on the future impact of AI on the industry with XBiz.com this week. In the opinion of Lightspeed, hyperrealistic AI adult videos that are both indistinguishable from reality AND completely interactive and viewer driven is the future of porn. And this isn’t years away – Lightspeed claims that it will be here by the end of next year, and he has received significant funding from venture capitalists to make it happen.

Highlighting how fast AI technology is accelerating, Lightspeed cites a recent major breakthrough in text-to-video AI with OpenAI’s Sora video generator, AliBaba announcing a new deepfake lip-syncing AI model, and Eleven Labs now making it possible to create voices that sound completely real. He says he is focused on building a community of adult AI enthusiasts who will collectively push the technology in new directions. This includes AI-generated personalities, text and voice chatbots, customizable images and consistent characters.

“We may not be able to make AI videos yet, but we intend to be very well-positioned, with millions of fans, when the technology inevitably arrives,” Lightspeed says. “We are currently perfecting the user experience and working through the technological challenges of making hyperrealistic AI adult content a reality. Interactive video with customizable synthetic performers is the holy grail of AI content. This is the sole mission of Porn.AI, and we have received backing from well-funded venture capitalists to make it happen by the end of 2025.”

The entire Xbiz article is very much worth reading, and all the participants quoted have something interesting to say. If the big question in sex and porn tech is how soon AI porn video generators will arrive, then the second biggest question is will they make real performers redundant, and that is really the common thread of the discussion in the piece, as you would expect from an adult industry magazine. Other than Lightspeed, the other interviewees appear to retain a belief that, at worst, AI will be both a benefit as well as a threat to human actresses and models, using the now familiar refrain that ‘porn viewers will always need a personal connection’, and that AI will actually make it easier for performers to engage with their fans. But there’s no doubt that the industry is going to be shaken up, and that current performers are going to face a lot more competition very soon. As Lightspeed’s site already shows, there is no requirement that the ‘human performer’ needs to be active – she may have retired years ago. All that is needed is that the owner of the porn generator has the rights to the images of the models to train the AI upon. The owner, of course, could be the retired performer herself. We have already seen a fifty-two year old former Playboy model restore herself to her glory years as an AI girlfriend chatbot. And given the sad frequency with which adult performers are passing away, with at least ten VR pornstars dying in the last decade, what is to stop future porn fans from deepfaking their likenesses into their own customizable VR sex scenes?

In late 2023, it was estimated by the Washington Examiner, that 2% of young women in the USA were ‘selling themselves’ on OnlyFans. And just as OnlyFans democratized the ability of any attractive woman to make money from her body, without a middle-man or studio contract, AI will likely take this much, much further. Women will be able to outsource their bodies, and their images, to AI, which can do all the work. This is something that is already happening at sites like FanVue.

Although all the talk now is of non-consensual deepfake porn, perhaps in another ten years time, the pressing social problem (at least among Conservatives) will be the millions of young American women selling consensual deep-fake porn of themselves, including hyperrealistic interactive videos?