Inside the tech-savvy lives of AI model creators earning thousands of dollars generating 'dream girls'

Steven Jones' porn business, which once netted him half a million in revenue per month, fell apart in 2013 amid stiff competition from free streamers like Pornhub. But the self-described science-fiction nerd now says he's getting back into the adult content game, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) which he's leveraging to help customers make bespoke pornography depicting their AI-generated'dream girls.' More chaste AI-generated models, created by a marketing team in Barcelona, Spain, are already minting between 11,000 and 3,200 a month in advertising deals. Welcome to the brave new world of post-human modelling, where'posing' joins the ranks of big box store retail and rocket manufacturing among the industries where managers profit off a labor force of unpaid machines and virtual employees. Right now, these AI-crafted models are already realistic enough to fool people who see models up close much more than the rest of us.