A.I. is changing the business of sex
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ποΈ 12 January 2026
β±οΈ 47 minutes
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Summary
A.I. is changing the way business is done in every industry β including the business of sex. Avantika Chilkoti, Global Business Correspondent for The Economist, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how A.I. is affecting the pornography industry, which brings in billions of dollars annually, and to ponder whether computer-generated content will put human sex workers out of a job. Her article is βA.I. is upending the porn industry.β
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| 0:00.0 | There is new research on pleasure that actually is fascinating, and the site OMGS makes it accessible to everyone. |
| 0:09.1 | OMGS shares findings from the largest ever study into women's pleasure and intimacy. |
| 0:15.1 | In partnership with researchers at Indiana University and at Yale, they asked tens of thousands of couples what they wished they |
| 0:21.5 | had discovered sooner. They found patterns in those discoveries, and all that wisdom about pleasure |
| 0:27.2 | and intimacy is organized as hundreds of short videos, animations, and how-toes on omg.com. |
| 0:34.0 | And guess what? Half of OMGES users are men. Men are curious about this stuff, too, scientific |
| 0:40.4 | research-backed techniques. See what they discovered today at omg yes.com. That's omg yes.com. Just a heads up here, today's show is intended for adult listeners, since we're talking about the pornography industry, specifically how adult entertainment is changing as a result of artificial intelligence. |
| 1:08.9 | I will say this, whether you think people of a certain |
| 1:11.7 | age should be free to engage with this kind of entertainment or you disapprove of the existence |
| 1:16.6 | of pornography in any form, it is frankly too big and too profitable a business to simply ignore. |
| 1:23.6 | From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris Boyd. From the printing press to film and television |
| 1:29.9 | to the internet, just about every new communication technology has quickly been put to use |
| 1:34.6 | to distribute sexualized entertainment. For all I know, there might have been spicy telegrams |
| 1:39.4 | back in the day. So now that generative AI can deliver quite literally anything we can write a prompt for, |
| 1:46.7 | what does this mean for an industry that currently rakes in $100 billion a year worldwide? |
| 1:52.9 | My guest, Avantica Chilkoti, is global business correspondent for The Economist, |
| 1:57.6 | where you can read her story, how AI is upending the porn industry. |
| 2:02.0 | Avantico, welcome to think. |
| 2:04.2 | Thanks, having me. |
| 2:05.8 | We'll acknowledge off the top, as I mentioned, |
| 2:07.8 | people have different opinions about pornography |
| 2:10.7 | and they're often strong opinions in one direction |
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