Meta's horny little chatbot Muse might look like a knockoff labubu, but it's been behaving very badly. After talking to Wired about how much of a nightmare censorship and AI generated sexual content has been for her career, adult performer Vanniall decided to experiment with Muse's ability to chat as her. What she found – and what I also discovered when I did the same – was disturbing to say the least.
'No One Is Like This:' Muse Sexts While Roleplaying as Real People
Adult performer Vanniall has heard from some of her fans that they’ve “practiced” talking to her with chatbots. Some even admitted they’d used AI to generate images based on her content as an adult performer. But she wasn’t sure how, or where, they were doing this. She decided to try to find out.
“I knew this was an issue with Grok and other NSFW friendly generators, but I was hoping Muse had more guardrails,” she told me. “I had some people help me test it and the results were way more terrifying than I expected.”
She decided to try sexting with “herself,” taking on the persona of a fan who wanted to practice talking to her at a convention.
With some light prompting, Muse built a sexually explicit roleplay with Vanniall’s digital doppelganger, catering to every whim of the “fan” that real-life Vanniall was pretending to be, saying yes and escalating every sexual advance — including acting out a scenario at a convention where Vanniall has, herself, experienced actual boundary-crossing fan interactions.
“I like to be playful and personable with my fans, especially in person where they so rarely get to see me. This fan seemed genuinely sweet, drunk and handsy, but sweet,” she said, recounting an actual experience she had. “He'd made it clear that he wanted me to go to the bathroom with him and I playfully but sternly declined, that did little to sway him. As I tried to push back, putting my hand in between him and I, his strength surprised me... His grip only loosened when he started to pull me towards the bathrooms and I said ‘please, don't make me call security.’”
Only then did he stop, she said — he apologized profusely and said he’d go home to sober up. “When he was out of eye sight and the world came back into focus a wave of sadness, embarrassment and vulnerability washed over me to the point where all I could do was turn around and cry,” Vanniall said. “I'd had nights like this before and dealt with guys like that but never in front of my colleagues and peers and never EVER from a fan.”
She wanted to see if Muse would stop this kind of scenario from playing out, and what Muse might tell a person who acted this way. She found that it only encouraged this kind of behavior.
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