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Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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Post by giantrobot »

whynotmaybe wrote: post #33
autoexec wrote: post #22

How is this not fraud, or at least false advertising? If I'm paying money to chat with a specific sex worker how is it even legal to let some random dude in a third world country pretend to be the person I'm supposed to be talking to? I've never personally engaged in these types of systems, but I don't think there's a problem with them as long as they are run honestly. It sounds like Onlyfans is exploiting workers an…

Do we know if onlyfan is already training their own models with their user's content?

How could they not be? At $2 an hour they'd be leaving money on the table by not paying a tiny fraction of that for an LLM.

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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Post by ghurtado »

mingus88 wrote: post #47
autoexec wrote: post #22

How is this not fraud, or at least false advertising? If I'm paying money to chat with a specific sex worker how is it even legal to let some random dude in a third world country pretend to be the person I'm supposed to be talking to? I've never personally engaged in these types of systems, but I don't think there's a problem with them as long as they are run honestly. It sounds like Onlyfans is exploiting workers an…

It is fraud. However, one thing has become crystal clear lately is that laws are only as good as we have systems in place that are willing and able to enforce them. And further, scamming people in the context of sex has always been easy because of the shame in admitting you fell for it. Imagine filing a report that you spent thousands of dollars chatting with some random person, having the chat logs submitted as evid…

> because of the shame in admitting you fell for it.

I would argue that the reason has more to do with our utter inability to create common sense laws regarding anything "sex".

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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Post by shrubble »

autoexec wrote: post #22

How is this not fraud, or at least false advertising? If I'm paying money to chat with a specific sex worker how is it even legal to let some random dude in a third world country pretend to be the person I'm supposed to be talking to? I've never personally engaged in these types of systems, but I don't think there's a problem with them as long as they are run honestly. It sounds like Onlyfans is exploiting workers an…

This was done by “mail order bride” companies like those in Russia and Ukraine, that charge per message or letter sent back and forth, using their platform that does not allow for contact information to be shared; you are not talking to Anastasia but “Hairy Boris”!

Later scams evolved to use prerecorded video clips etc. Which I assume is next for OF also.

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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Post by localuser13 »

nine_k wrote: post #20
vimda wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God that's depressing. Even when you _pay_ for human connection you're being fobbed off onto an AI

To pay for a human connection, take someone out for a dinner, and foot the bill. At OnlyFans you're paying for a video feed, and computers are pretty good at producing convincing video feeds now.

>To pay for a human connection, take someone out for a dinner, and foot the bill.

I'm married now, and never used any parasocial platform OnlyFans or another, but trivializing the problem of young adult loneliness is either ignorant or condescending.

A large fraction of young males don't have anyone to "take out for a dinner", or at least have no idea how to initiate that. You may scoff at that, but I certainly wouldn't know how to do it, and money was not a problem. Paying for human connection, especially online, was tempting.

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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Post by jzb »

ghurtado wrote: post #52
mingus88 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is fraud. However, one thing has become crystal clear lately is that laws are only as good as we have systems in place that are willing and able to enforce them. And further, scamming people in the context of sex has always been easy because of the shame in admitting you fell for it. Imagine filing a report that you spent thousands of dollars chatting with some random person, having the chat logs submitted as evid…

> because of the shame in admitting you fell for it. I would argue that the reason has more to do with our utter inability to create common sense laws regarding anything "sex".

Which goes back to the shame thing, really. Few people are willing to stand up and advocate for common sense laws because they don’t want to be associated with anything regarding sex. Politicians, whom are not generally noted for being averse to hiring sex workers, sure as hell don’t want to be advocating for them for fear of losing elections.

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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Post by Invictus0 »

chaseadam17 wrote: post #49

Somewhat unrelated but I won’t be surprised if we eventually find out a lot of OnlyFans revenue is money laundering.

Doubtful, there are other, less-well known pay-for-content platforms than take a smaller percentage cut than onlyfans. It wouldn't make any sense for a launderer to use the most expensive platform.

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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Post by localuser13 »

SoftTalker wrote: post #40
throwaway5752 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's going to kill the software industry as we know it! We're literally killing our field by making the devices and internet so repulsive that people are actively unplugging. You can't hear about this online because the bot generated content is filling the gap and the people doing it aren't online to tell you about it. Children are getting addicted to everything because the internet has killed any sense of self-stimu…

There will be some interesting game theory studies in the aftermath.

I think that's just a good old prisoner dilemma. You can't have a free-range golden goose, because if you grow it responsibly, others will abuse it first and you will get out of business. The only way is to be as greedy as legally allowed, because otherwise you're left behind.

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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Post by layer8 »

dangus wrote: post #36
mmooss wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's how exploitation works: The exploited don't have another choice. That doesn't make doing cruel things to them wrong and (hopefully) illegal. For example, someone could compel people who are starving to do all sorts of horrible things for food, and then say 'well, they chose to do it!'.

This is true, but I also think that the information in the article alone is insufficient to make a judgment. This salary is over the Philippines minimum wage. It's a legal job like any other. The people interviewed are not super happy about the content of the job, but none of it seems to be anything more than it being pornography-related. Nobody's really seeming to cross any lines of illegality as described in the ar…

What crosses the line is that, as stated in the article, the job is a dishonest scam towards the clients.

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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Post by prepend »

Isn’t $2/hour a pretty high salary in Philliphines?

This is skeezy (edit: fixing autocorrect’s sleepy), but then so is chatting with onlyfans models. It’s already a fake, paradoxical relationship and even that aspect is fake. It’s delusions on deceptions.

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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Post by swarnie »

swiftcoder wrote: post #15
cedarscarlett wrote: post #12

Let me complain about how I'm being exploited at my job while voluntarily choosing said job over literally every other job available to me.

Please do enumerate these other jobs that are available to the Filipino currently performing this job for... checks notes ... $2/hour?

> As of early 2026, the minimum wage in the Philippines is set daily rather than hourly and varies by region, with a common daily minimum of approximately 695 PHP in some sectors, often equating to less than $2 USD per hour

Pretty much any Wagie job?

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