I pretend to be OnlyFans models online
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Behind some OnlyFans models making money from chatting to paying subscribers is the unseen human labour people who pretend to be the models and chat on their behalf. We speak to a woman in the Philippines about her jobs as a “chatter’.
Also on the programme, scientists using AI to help advance their research. And the White House has been cutting real footage from the war with Iran with clips from video games. We analyse their strategy.
Presenter: Shiona McCallum Producer: Imran Rahman-Jones
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| 0:40.4 | Welcome to Tech Life on the BBC World Service, the program about how tech affects all of us every day. |
| 0:47.8 | I'm Shona McCallum and today we'll be talking about OnlyFans, the huge online platform. |
| 0:53.9 | But are subscribers really chatting to the |
| 0:56.8 | creators they subscribe to or someone else? So we ask their name, their age, are they comfortable? |
| 1:04.3 | And then we ask what's their work? So basically we ask what's their work because that's when |
| 1:09.3 | we could see how much we could make sales |
| 1:11.6 | out of them. One of the ways AI companies say they will change the world is in speeding up |
| 1:17.8 | science research, but can you stop AI slop muddying the waters? The best science is still going to be |
| 1:24.7 | done by scientists who have devoted their lives to their |
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