Your bag is empty.
“You’re going to need to find a good reference image of a pussy. I’m going to provide you one, okay?”
This is no life drawing class. I’m watching AI Pimp Blueprint, an online course that teaches men how to create AI women and monetize them as adult content creators on subscription platforms similar to OnlyFans. The premise is simple: attractive women are making a fortune selling explicit content online. But what if you didn’t have to be an attractive woman to make money? What if you could simply… generate one?
AI Pimp Blueprint (now rebranded as AI Model Academy) shows students exactly how: from designing a woman’s appearance to building her Instagram following and selling her explicit content behind a paywall. The woman is fake. The money, the course promises, is very real.
I’m watching the video module where one of the course’s instructors – a man who goes by ‘Scotty Pimp’ – demonstrates how to create pornographic images using an open-source AI tool. Sharing his screen, he uploads two images to the interface: a portrait of a young, curly-haired blonde and a detailed photograph of a vagina (the “reference image of a pussy” provided in the course materials).
With a few text commands (including “puffy erect nipples” and “glistening wet vulva”) the software fuses the two images into a single figure. The curly-haired blonde reappears onscreen: naked, spreadeagled and smiling uncannily.
The image is overtly sexual, yet strangely sexless. Not just because it’s AI – but because the woman in the image is a kind of digital Frankenstein’s monster. Her face, body and genitals have all been taken from different women across the internet – without their knowledge.
Earlier in the course, Scotty had demonstrated how he’d constructed the curly-haired blonde from scratch. He’d begun with her face.
“Start off [creating] a young-looking model,” he’d advised, “young girls always perform the best.”
The easiest way to do that, the course teaches, is to use someone else’s face as a foundation. Sites like Pinterest serve as an endless catalogue of young women whose faces and bodies can be harvested to build AI personas.
Scotty finds a photo to his liking: a selfie of a young brunette pouting at the camera. He downloads it and drops it into Nano Banana (Google’s AI-image generation tool), where he tweaks and anonymizes her identity with a few easy prompts.
He lightens and curls her hair, plumps her lips and thickens her lashes as if he’s creating an avatar in The Sims. But beneath the AI mask, I can still see the features of the original girl. At no point in the lesson does Scotty suggest verifying that the person in the image is over 18 before using her likeness as the foundation for an AI adult content creator.
So far, over 3,000 aspiring ‘AI Pimps’ have signed up to AI Pimp Blueprint; almost all are men. It’s far from the only course teaching people how to build AI adult content creators. Across the internet, thousands are turning to AI in an attempt to replicate the success of real OnlyFans models.
The appeal isn’t difficult to understand. In many ways, OnlyFans is a modern extension of the American Dream: the hope that an ordinary person can transform their life from rags to riches overnight. It’s a dream long promised to men – but one that has, for once, been realized at scale by women. Now, AI gives men the tools to cash in, too.
AI Pimp Blueprint teaches students not just how to generate an attractive woman, but how to create one that sells. The course treats female desirability as a commodity, one that can be extracted, studied and optimized for profit. And who, its creators believe, could be better placed to engineer women for male consumption than other men?
The first step to being a desirable woman online, apparently, is to shut the hell up.
“We are marketing a girl, right?” says one of the course instructors, Jimmy Denero in an AI Pimp Blueprint video module. “No one wants to listen to women talk. No one wants to hear that shit, so you have to have some element of sexuality in your content.”
Screen-sharing, Jimmy sketches out a line on a digital whiteboard. One one end, he writes the word ‘WHORE’. “What’s the opposite of whore?” he asks. “Uhh… not whore.”
Jimmy writes NOT WHORE at the other end of the line, along with the adjectives ‘feminine,’ ‘youthful,’ ‘passive,’ and ‘submissive.’ This, Jimmy argues, is what sells best: a young, innocent-seeming persona that contrasts with the sexual content she sells.
“If we can get a girl whose face reads passive, chill, feminine… and then we hit them with the fucking horseshit,” he says (referring to sexual content), “that’s great because [the customer] is getting psychologically confused.”
Kit Barrus isn’t convinced there’s a simple formula to success as an adult content creator online. She would know: she’s a top creator on OnlyFans. An ex-Mormon fitness enthusiast with a short crop of electric blue hair and an outspoken Instagram presence, Kit is a far cry from the AI Pimp Blueprint ideal. “Nobody’s gonna make an AI model that looks like me,” she laughs, “but I’m still a top creator!”
Kit isn’t worried that AI content creators will replace real women like her. However, she is disturbed by their emerging presence within the adult entertainment industry. “I do think it’s disappointing,” she says. “There are so many women who are sex workers, it’s disappointing men wouldn’t find a real woman to support. Real representation is important. Supporting real people is important.”
AI women may not be rivalling the industry’s biggest creators, they’re still generating significant income for some. Herman Carter, a man who runs several AI accounts, claims his most successful model has generated over $157,000 in revenue. When done right, Herman says that AI women aren’t just lucrative, but convincingly real.
“I built a ten-out-of-ten model who went insanely viral [on Instagram],” he says. “At some point [an A list musician] started DMing me. I had multiple very big guys in the casino world offer to fly ‘her’ out in a private jet, buy her any car ‘she’ wanted. It was insane.”
The great irony of the AI model industry is that it revolves around women, yet there are none present. The creators are men. The customers are men. Behind every photo, video and flirtatious DM is another man. It is an economy of women built by men, for men. This deters some – but many don’t seem to care.
“I would say 50% [of subscribers] don’t know it’s AI because they miss the AI label,” Herman says. “The other 50% know… but they don’t want to admit that they know”.
Herman sees AI women as an extension of the fantasy that OnlyFans creators are already selling online. “On OnlyFans, a lot of people know that they’re not talking to the actual girl,” he says. “It’s usually an agency [hiring] a guy in Southeast Asia who’s doing the chatting.”
But whether it’s OnlyFans chatters, fake orgasms in porn or dancers who flirt with customers at the strip club, the sex industry has always involved smoke and mirrors. But an AI woman takes the illusion one step further: she is the mirror. When men look at her, they are looking less at the image of a woman than at a reflection of themselves.
For some, that might be enough. In the AI Pimp Blueprint Discord chat, a group member shared a message their AI model had received from a subscriber:
“Just admit you’re AI. I’m still going to jerk off to you.”