‘She’ll Remain Timeless’: Adult Film Stars are Adopting AI Replicas to Maintain Eternal Youth

Lisa Ann officially left the adult industry in 2019, but for $30 a month, fans can still envision any explicit scenario featuring her on their screens.

Ann, 53, had a successful three-decade career in adult films that began in the mid-1990s, retiring after achieving her financial goals.

However, she had a change of perspective last year. An avowed AI enthusiast, Ann entered into a partnership with OhChat, a London-based AI companion company, to license her likeness, effectively creating a virtual version of herself that can be used for adult content creation: same voice, body, and signature brown hair.

As concerns over deepfakes grow and the future of adult entertainment faces challenges from new age-verification laws, several AI companion platforms aim to establish a new standard for consensual adult-themed AI content. Unlike merely messaging a faceless bot, digital twins—also referred to as duplicates or replicas—mimic the exact appearance, speech patterns, and mannerisms of beloved performers and creators.

Now a self-help author and sports radio host, Ann is part of a rising group in adult entertainment that believes AI will transform the industry and wants to influence the direction of that transformation. She views her collaboration with OhChat as a way to access a perpetual youth—and maintain her prime indefinitely.

“This keeps my name alive,” she says regarding her digital double. “She’s never going to age.”

For Cherie Deville, a 47-year-old performer celebrated for her MILF content, digital twins represent a clever business approach to generate passive income while the opportunity is prominent. “We can either allow AI developers to take the majority of earnings in the sex industry, or creators can engage and start building their own revenue streams through AI.”

Creators for OhChat must submit 30 images and complete voice training with a bot, agreeing to specific levels of sexual content for their digital twin. Ann has achieved “Level 4”—the top tier on the platform—allowing members to create scenarios and chats featuring her that include nudity and sexual activity. According to the company’s policies, clones can be removed at any time.

“For guys who like to send good morning or good night messages, they now have that option. The fact that I’m not filming scenes anymore enables new scenarios to be developed,” Ann explains.

Once described by CEO Nic Young as the “love child between OnlyFans and OpenAI,” OhChat was launched in 2024 and has quickly grown to over 400,000 users. Data shared with WIRED reveals that OhChat has 250 creators, 90 percent of whom are female, and has agreements with celebrities like Carmen Electra and Joe Exotic. The platform operates on a tiered subscription model—$5 a month for on-demand messaging, up to $30 for unlimited adult content—with the company taking a 20 percent commission, similar to OnlyFans.

Other competitors in the market include My.Club, Joi AI, and SinfulX AI, the latter of which adult film actress Georgia Koneva recently partnered with, noting in a press release that her avatar provides her with a “new way to share my voice and personality with my followers.” SinfulX AI also creates “original” synthetic characters using licensed imagery from adult performers it has the right to utilize. In the same announcement, the company stated that these AI-generated “characters” aim to “not replicate any single individual while still delivering the realism that its content is recognized for.”