Your link does not support the claim I was asking the citation for. A chatbot service marketed as a chatbot service is distinctly different from a fake online persona constructed with chatbot and stable diffusion. In particular, the "honest chatbot" does not have anything to do with AI-generated images, and it's not purporting a fake persona.

ah okay, I wasn't responding to show catfishing occurring, and I was responding on the subject of a non-human adult content creator making money by entertaining humans.

It wasn't clear to me that was your goal post as "fake" can be brevity and hyperbolic just as much as it can be about catfishing, and it also wasn't clear to me that the person you responded to was even pointing out anything relevant to this thread which was "casually talking in person with someone whose occupation is also sex work" being followed with "hey we have a guy at the office that thinks they're talking to sex workers! this person on hackernews must be a guy and just like him!"

so at this point, I would say we're too far down to really be invested in these nuances, but I hope you find what you're looking for

> I wasn't responding to show catfishing occurring, and I was responding on the subject of a non-human adult content creator making money by entertaining humans.

Sorry about the harsh response. Your link was on topic and it was indeed an example of non-human adult content creator making money by entertaining humans, albeit only in text form not images, and its popularity was dependent on marketing on the back of a real persona. There's still no documented case of John Nobody making a Jane Done AI with chatbot + generated images, and rising to any level of popularity. But the case in your link was definitely a step in that direction and I wasn't giving any credit for it in my previous response.