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How is this not fraud, or at least false advertising? If I'm paying money to chat with a specific sex worker how is it even legal to let some random dude in a third world country pretend to be the person I'm supposed to be talking to? I've never personally engaged in these types of systems, but I don't think there's a problem with them as long as they are run honestly. It sounds like Onlyfans is exploiting workers and their own customers.

2$ an hour chatter and 20$ an hour 'model', both replaced by AI.

Now this is almost entirely automated anyway, there is a big adult ecosystem here in Cyprus and i talk to a lot of people. No manual work is used there anymore, "chatters" are a thing of the past.

Now they are well on the path to automate OnlyFans models themselves, there are plenty of hybrid sites where known live models are attracted with good terms to bring in the users, and then slowly switched for AI ones, and it WORKS.

Adult industry is so competitive and fast-evolving because there are few deep moats, it shows the way for everyone else, in fact.

As an aside:

> OnlyFans, which generated $7.2bn (£5.3bn) revenue in 2024, ..

I didn't expect their revenue to be that high, but I suppose it's also unsurprising.

Somewhat unrelated but I won’t be surprised if we eventually find out a lot of OnlyFans revenue is money laundering.

Isn’t $2/hour a pretty high salary in Philliphines?

This is skeezy (edit: fixing autocorrect’s sleepy), but then so is chatting with onlyfans models. It’s already a fake, paradoxical relationship and even that aspect is fake. It’s delusions on deceptions.

> She would be set targets to earn the model hundreds of dollars worth of sales of pictures and videos during her shift.

So lets assume $300 per shift, so with an 8 hour shift, that would be about $37.50/hour of merchandise per hour. So the workers makes about 5.3%. Google says standard for sales workers paid on comission normally get 5-10%.

So its possible this is within what would be normal for a low end non-salary commision job, but it depends on what "hundreds" really mean. Of course i think normally for commision only sales jobs you move much more expensive product to make it worth your while.

Otoh they probably deserve a lot higher than normal sales commision given the nature of the job and all the stuff they undoubtedly have to put up with.

Related: in Germany, there currently is a huge scandal surrounding the company "Fanblast", where you could purchase the supposed "whatsapp phone number" of various "celebrities" and, allegedly, the chats were also run by random freelancers [1].

[1] https://www.comicschau.de/news/fanblast-aloa-me-klengan-krit...

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Average wages in the Phillipines are around $360/month USD, so $2/hr isn't too bad for an easy job. BBC is playing rage-bait arbitrage with that headline.

I am still amazed that prostitution is legal when done online, and these teenage sex workers are allowed to continue selling themselves.

Let me complain about how I'm being exploited at my job while voluntarily choosing said job over literally every other job available to me.