Tag: digital intimacy

• Michael – Data Workers’ Inquiry

  December 21, 2025

  A rare glimpse into the labor behind “AI” sex companions, where human emotion becomes data. https://data-workers.org/michael/ more ›

• The 404 Media Podcast: Luxury Surveillance (With Chris Gilliard)

  November 24, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/YgDlVWT Jason talks to Chris Gilliard, the author of the upcoming book Luxury Surveillance. Gilliard has studied the rise of companies like Ring and Flock, as well as the… more ›

• ‘We’re sick of the OnlyFans model’: Stella Barey’s porn site lets gen Z sex workers have a life

  November 7, 2025

  The 28-year-old’s platform, Hidden, offers a Tumblr-like sensibility in an industry roiled by slop and lets adult content creators earn without burning out. When Barey decided in 2020 to pursue… more ›

• The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz

  October 23, 2025

  Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/ more ›

• Breaking Down OnlyFans’ Stunning Economics — MatthewBall.co

  September 22, 2025

  Due to UK disclosure requirements, it’s possible to examine the P&L of the privately owned/controlled OnlyFans. And the results are shocking. Though a private company, Fenix International (“OnlyFans”) is a… more ›

• AI chatbots are optimizing the adult industry | The Verge

  July 1, 2025

  Large language models are helping OnlyFans creators run single-person production studios. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/692286/ai-bots-llm-onlyfans more ›

• Inside the Grindr CEO’s ‘hardcore’ vision for the LGBTQ dating app’s future

  May 9, 2025

  George Arison is telling me about a hookup. https://www.fastcompany.com/91328918/grindr-ceo-george-arison-interview-ai-wingman more ›

• Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

  March 15, 2025

  If that’s not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that… more ›

• Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps

  February 14, 2025

  The Dating Apps Reporting Project is an 18-month investigation. It was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network and The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, and… more ›

• The Gray Area with Sean Illing: The screens between us

  January 13, 2025

  https://ift.tt/obaszvi What is the first thing that you touch in the morning? What about the last thing you touch before you go to sleep? For many of us, it’s our… more ›