Leveraging AI and crypto to address issues faced by adult content creators

Moxie founder Neonwight outlined the platform’s strategy for combining artificial intelligence (AI) with crypto to create “Sex Capital Markets.”

He said the controversial concept was fundamentally about financial inclusivity and unlocking productivity for marginalized creators. 

He stated in an interview with CryptoSlate:

“Adult creators are one of the most marginalized professions in society. Banks refuse to serve them, and Visa and Mastercard charge north of 10% to 15% processing fees because they view adult content as legal and reputational risk.”

Neonwight detailed personal experiences with banking discrimination, citing instances where his bank blocked OnlyFans payments after two transactions. The bank told him it does not “serve payments in those kinds of industries.”

Neonwight provided specific data on creator earnings, noting that he reached out to adult content creators who generate between $50,000 and $100,000 monthly revenue, translating to $600,000 to $1.2 million annual recurring revenue. 

Despite these successful business metrics, creators cannot access traditional banking services, business loans, or investment opportunities available to other entrepreneurs. Having a revenue stream fully powered via crypto rails could address the debanking issues faced by adult content creators.

Shifting metas

Moxie was born as an AI agent deployed through the Virtuals Protocol. Users could access Moxie’s services through the Agent Commerce Protocol and commission AI-generated adult content, paying $10 worth of VIRTUAL tokens.

Since then, Moxie has experienced some changes. First, it left the Virtuals platform due to policy issues. Then, the same model of commissioned content was applied to a proprietary platform, but using a pre-set model called Jenny.

As of Aug. 12, Moxie offers a chat that emulates a real conversation, where Jenny sends AI-generated content, and users can pay 400 MOXIE tokens to see it.

According to Neonwight, Moxie targets OnlyFans’ core revenue driver. Over 80% of the platform’s $7 billion annual revenue derives from customized one-on-one content. 

He explained:

“It becomes an issue for very famous content creators because they don’t have time to split among their huge fan base. There’s also an issue where, as they get older, it gets more taxing to do particular scenes.”

Moxie’s AI solution enables creators to serve larger audiences while maintaining personal connections through personality-trained chatbots. 

The platform uses a custom-trained video model developed by an AI researcher formerly at Alibaba. The proprietary large language model creates content that allows creators to fulfill requests they might not personally perform while preserving their authentic personality traits.

Strategic partnerships

The platform’s partnership structure maintains human contact while expanding creative possibilities. 

Moxie partnered with model Tori Sweetie to curate AI-generated content and participate through live streaming. The goal is to ensure authentic personality representation while enabling content categories that they might not personally create.

Neonwight said:

“The one-to-one human connection is what sells right now. The AI chatbot is trained based on her personality, and she will stream on our platform to give fans another level of personality interaction.”

Martina Oliveira is a top creator on Privacy, Brazil’s leading adult content platform. She provided a perspective on AI’s impact on the adult content industry. 

When asked about AI-generated adult content potentially harming content creators’ revenue, Oliveira said: 

“I think it hurts real models because some content creators who didn’t record videos, claiming they recorded them just by being pretty, are already doing this. I believe that to get attention now, you have to have more originality, you have to talk, you have to expose yourself more because there are already AIs doing the basics, you have to do more than that.”

However, she noted AI-generated content currently has limitations in video quality, particularly for explicit content.

Furthermore, there is the possibility to partner with platforms that generate AI content, such as Moxie, to increase productivity and test new content.

Oliveira previously worked with a platform offering voice synthesis services where users paid per minute for AI-generated conversations. 

According to her:

“I would definitely close this type of partnership, especially if it generated images, I think that’s what was missing in what I did before.”

Regarding crypto integration with platforms like Privacy and OnlyFans, Oliveira acknowledged potential benefits but noted platform resistance to change. 

She believes crypto will be used on these sites over the years because it makes transactions safer. However, Oliveira concluded:

“But it might take a long time because platforms are kind of reluctant to spend on adding services to the site because they don’t know if it will work.”