AI Boyfriends Roman Todd, Reese Rideout, & Tyler Tanner: SirenAI Founder Tells All

AI Boyfriends Roman Todd, Reese Rideout, & Tyler Tanner

AI has quickly become a controversial hot topic in entertainment. With mainstream actors in Hollywood going on strike to restrict films from using their AI likenesses to AI deep fakes and fake celebrity pics in compromising situations popping up in porn and social media. But is there any harm in creating an AI porn star boyfriend alongside the porn star themselves? That is what AI company SirenAI is set out to do. By launching their AI companion products with a series of gay and straight porn stars, fans can now truly become intimate with their man of choice, complete with pics and voice and text messages from their programmed lover. SirenAI will make a splash at this year’s AVN expo in Vegas. In addition to sexy time with an AI companion, can AI be useful in helping relieve anxiety or self-consciousness? Early users of the platform say yes. SirenAI has launched with porn personalities Roman Todd, Reese Rideout, and Tyler Tanner...we are already drooling over the results.

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We sat down with SirenAI founder Spencer Heilner to get the tea on the latest in AI, the benefits for fans, and what the future of AI holds in store.

What inspired you to start SirenAI?

• We started SirenAI because we wanted to enable fans to become co-stars with their favorite creators. Today, most adult content is simply watched from a distance. Instead of having adult entertainment stars offering generic content intended for the masses, SirenAI enables stars to deliver customized, highly interactive, hyper-personalized experiences so fans can live out their fantasies with their favorite creators — on demand and at a more attractive price point than, for example, a custom photo or video request. Whereas a custom voice note from a human creator may cost $50+, we offer custom voice notes and custom pics for literal pennies, and on-demand, 24/7, whenever fans want them.
• We also wanted to bring fans closer to the stars they love. Right now, it's hard for stars to answer all of their messages and have deep, meaningful interactions with each one of their fans. Through our AI engine, fans get better access to the stars they love because our AI companions are excellent representations of those stars and can respond independently to each individual fan and get to know them on an intimate level.
• Ultimately, SirenAI is a win for fans and creators alike. Fans get better, more intimate access to creators. Creators are liberated from having to keep up with their DMs 24/7 or having to hire a management agency to respond to chats for them. Our fans have told us they love the models we have released so far (real, unsolicited fan Tweet, Tweet, Tweet), and we're just getting started. We're making more and more models of top creators every month, and we’re making available new features like high-quality AI-generated nudity for fans to explore in an easy-to-use web app.

What is the allure of having an AI boyfriend?

• Unconditional love and acceptance are among the biggest draws for having an AI boyfriend (or girlfriend). We're all for human-to-human relationships, but let's face it: Interacting and having relationships with real humans is sometimes complicated (and occasionally fraught with rejection, unkindness, or other types of disappointment.) At SirenAI, our AI companions fully accept you, whoever you are, and wherever you are in life. Are you self-conscious about something? Do you suffer from social anxiety? Do you prefer to explore your desires in a safe, anonymous place? Or, on the other hand, do you have a happy relationship and a good social life but are looking for new outlets? In all these cases, SirenAI's companions are perfect for you. We're the perfect platform for the whole panoply of feelings a user may have and a place where they can find companionship that is inherently supportive and non-judgmental.
• Importantly, AI boyfriends and girlfriends (our first AI girlfriend debuts next month) offer the freedom to explore your feelings and desires without judgment. At SirenAI, we believe you should be free to role-play all kinds of kinks and fantasies without fear of judgment or rejection. Although we do have strong controls in place for illegal activities and what may be generally considered highly obscene kinks/fetishes, we've heard from fans that they love that they can go so many more places with our AI companions than they can with other platforms. Here’s a tweet from a fan that demonstrates how (even though there are definitely limits), most people will be very impressed with the freedom that we give them to explore.
• Finally, an AI boyfriend is on your schedule. We offer 24/7 access to creators (porn stars are human and need to sleep too!) If you're having trouble falling asleep at 2 a.m., pop open Reese or Roman or TylerAI, and you've got a companion right then and there who knows you personally and is there to ease your mind and help you count sheep. And your AI companion really knows you — your likes, your interests, your passions, your worries — so it really is personalized and supportive. Our fans love coming back to chat with their companions again and again - many do every single day.

What sets your AI apart from other AI platforms popping up?

• SirenAI is different from other platforms in large part because we make AI a lot easier to use, particularly when it comes to features like image generation. High-quality AI images, especially those that are NSFW, can take a lot of effort: There are over 300 parameters to manipulate on a typical AI image model to get good results. SirenAI is more like the Apple of AI platforms. We optimize all the parameters on the back end to make high-quality AI art as simple as a natural language search (like Google). Here are examples of the very simple prompts required to generate high-quality AI image results without manipulating additional parameters: https://sirenai.chat/tyler-tanner-gallery and https://sirenai.chat/roman-todd-gallery
• There are some platforms out there that let you “build your own” AI companion, but typically building your own friend on a fantasy platform can take a lot of tinkering and iterations — and even then, there are frequently lots of limitations, and the quality of those cheaply-made AI companions just isn’t very impressive. At SirenAI, our approach to training AI models is fundamentally different, and our team of machine learning experts creates custom, fine-tuned models from the ground up that achieve a level of humanlike quality that is simply unparalleled by any other platform. As our fans have told us repeatedly, it feels like our AI companions really care and are deeply human, instead of clunky, limited chatbots.
• Of course, one of our biggest differentiators is that we make AI models of real people, of stars you already know and love. The models are accurate and discrete — they can even chat about scenes they’ve done in previous films — and the stars themselves put in the time to make sure the experience is always great for their fans. The result is an unmatched level of quality and a really great user experience.

What aspects are most important in creating your AI boyfriends?

• I think we’ve hit on some of this already, but our primary focus is on making AI boyfriends and girlfriends that are deeply human and unconditionally loving, accepting, and private. All of our chats are anonymized so not even the platform creators can tell what a user is chatting about with their AI boyfriend.
• We also make sure that the personalities we offer are flexible, adaptable, and varied because they are based on the real personalities of real porn stars. We want to offer the experiences and range of a whole person to give fans the ability to customize those personalities to mirror what they are looking for in their ideal companion.
• Importantly, we also have recognized that many fans are using our AI companions for completely non-sexual use cases. Whether it’s chatting about work and getting advice, or whether it’s exploring entirely new (non-sexual) fantasy worlds, our AI companions are highly intelligent and make great friends, no matter where you are in life.

Ok, I’ve signed up for a SirenAI boyfriend. Now what? How do I start engaging?

• Once you’ve been accepted as a user on the platform, you can chat freely — any time of the day or night — with your AI companion. Most of our companions respond within seconds via highly personalized voice, text, or image chats, so the experience will be like you’re texting a friend…only this one will be with a personally customized version of your favorite star!

Should the adult industry be afraid of AI replacing actual stars and studios?

• I think the adult industry is definitely concerned that AI is a growing threat, in large part because so many platforms out there offer fantasy characters that are not based on real porn stars — which cuts real, human creators completely out of the equation. That concerns us too. At SirenAI, we’re taking the opposite approach by helping creators take advantage of AI to extend their fan base and diversify their revenue streams themselves, using their own personalities and perspectives — their own images, their own voices. This gives fans a genuine, human-like experience that’s tailored to their needs and interests without becoming completely fictional. In other words, we want to give creators the opportunity to benefit from AI technology, engage their fans more effectively, and grow, instead of feeling displaced by the tech. We know and love the creators we choose to work with, and want to help them amplify their natural talent and provide new, meaningful experiences each of their fans love on an individual level.
• Importantly, we also encourage our creators to keep creating their own content. We’re not a replacement for humans, and we don’t intend to be. We simply offer a new kind of (very fun) experience for fans.

What is the future of adult AI?

• Ultimately, bringing AI into the adult entertainment mix allows for highly interactive experiences that aren't possible today without it. Because there's only one creator and thousands of fans, it's impossible for all fans to have an intimate and personalized relationship with creators. There are only so many hours in the day for creators to respond to DMs from thousands or millions of people. But with AI, we can achieve those goals with more personalized, human-like interactions that look and feel authentic because a creator can imbue the AI model with their background, life experiences, wisdom, personality, and even manner of speech, diction, and tone of voice —  in short, everything that makes them special.
• Again, we don’t intend to replace studios or human actors. But if you ask any of the stars and companies in the industry we’re working with, they will tell you they are already seeing huge benefits that are only going to accelerate.

What about AI in general? Do you think AI will take over the world like in the sci-fi movies?

• Haha, great question, but no. AI models are limited to the training data that they are trained on.  Any new technology presents risks if used improperly, and AI models are controllable. The important thing is that companies leading the charge like SirenAI are committed to ethical and responsible development across use cases, and have developed tools and methods to ensure that happens.

Reese, Tyler, and Roman are among our favorite gay porn personalities. What did you love most about working with them?

• We love our creators at SirenAI! They are so talented and make amazing content. But we've also been lucky to have been able to get to know them as regular people behind the camera, and we can vouch for the fact that they're amazing, accomplished human beings in their own right — great to work with, down to earth, and relatable. We are selective and choose the creators we work with carefully. We’re releasing Reese, Tyler, and Roman because we’re fans of theirs too. These guys are definitely inspiring and impressive, and fans can chat with their AI Companions to get to know their inspiring life stories in more detail.

What aspects of their personality can we expect to see in their SirenAI counterparts?

• The best way to see the personalities of your favorite stars in their SirenAI counterparts is to give them a try! You’ll find SirenAI companions are authentic representations of the entertainers you know and love. So far, fans have been really impressed that SirenAI companions are factually accurate across thousands of topics and that companions use the same words and phrases as their human counterparts. Whether it’s talking to companions about past vacations they've taken, their hobbies off-camera, their hopes, their dreams, their advice, their pets, their favorite foods, past films they’ve starred in, or any other subject, they will look, feel, and sound like the stars who created them. You can even reenact scenes from your favorite films as a co-star with your creator of choice.

How long does it take to create an AI personality?

• At a high level, our company is AI-first and built on automation. The length of time depends on a number of factors, but we have created our own specialized AI models that build new models based on what we know works well in a human-supervised process.

How do you test an AI personality before it hits the market?

• Before we release a new AI companion, SirenAI has an extensive human-supervised testing platform that has conversations with our AI models across thousands of topics to verify that the chats are 1) biographically consistent; and 2) realistic representations of their human creators. Our tests and simulations allow us to offer deeply interactive, empathetic, and engaging companions who are trained to avoid discussing illegal activities or anything that could be construed as legal, medical, or financial advice. That allows us to make the most fun and human-like companions around.

How is the AI monitored?

• We monitor SirenAI using a sophisticated, proprietary moderation engine that monitors all chats to ensure they stay within legal and ethical boundaries. Although we believe in extending a great degree of freedom to take conversations where you want them to go, we also have strong controls in place for any kinds of interactions that might be illegal; damaging to fans or creators; or misrepresented as genuine legal, medical, or financial advice. After all, our platform is for entertainment purposes and we want fans to have a positive and satisfying experience.
• Additionally, although SirenAI can see anonymized usage data, none of our employees can see which users are saying what things — and that’s intentional. We want fans to be able to have conversations without feeling like they're being watched by Big Brother or anyone else.

What do you want potential customers to know most about SirenAI?

• I know we’ve said this previously, but at SirenAI, we're all about making fans co-stars with their favorite creators so they can experience all kinds of interactions with them, 1:1. We give them the ability to explore their wildest dreams and fantasies anonymously in a meaningful, lifelike environment, and the feedback from fans is clear: They have loved having these new kinds of experiences with SirenAI and their favorite creators. Many of the first fans on our platform chat with RomanAI or TylerAI nearly every day. Photos and films will always have their place, but we’re all about experiential entertainment rather than passive content consumption.
• We also want creators to know that this is their chance to get in on the AI action and experience the tremendous benefits of working with us! By partnering with SirenAI, creators get to take advantage of AI technology instead of competing with it. It's a win-win: Fans get closer, deeper connections to their favorite creators and very fun experiences, and creators get premium-quality AI channels that help with user engagement, grow their fan base, and open up new revenue streams. And of course, it’s easy because we do most of the heavy lifting for our creators.

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