AI-generated media is radically changing the way content is both consumed and produced on the internet, and in no place is this potentially more visible than in sexual content. AI-generated sexual content (AIG-SC) is increasingly enabled by an ecosystem of individual AI developers, specialized third-party applications, and foundation model providers. AIG-SC raises a number of concerns from old debates about the line between pornography and obscenity, to newer debates about fair use and labor displacement (in this case, of sex workers), and spurred new regulations to curb the spread of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) created using the same technology used to create AIG-SC. However, despite the growing prevalence of AIG-SC, little is known about its creators, their motivations, and what types of content they produce. To inform effective governance in this space, we perform an in-depth study to understand what AIG-SC creators make, along with how and why they make it. Interviews of 28 AIG-SC creators, ranging from hobbyists to entrepreneurs to those who moderate communities of hundreds of thousands of other creators, reveal a wide spectrum of motivations, including sexual exploration, creative expression, technical experimentation, and in a handful of cases, the creation of NCII.

翻译：AI生成媒体正在从根本上改变互联网内容消费与生产的方式，而这一转变在性内容领域尤为显著。AI生成性内容（AIG-SC）的兴起得益于由个体AI开发者、专业第三方应用和基础模型提供商构成的生态系统。AIG-SC引发了一系列争议：从关于色情与淫秽界限的长期辩论，到关于合理使用与劳动替代（此处指性工作者）的新兴讨论，并促使新法规出台以遏制利用相同技术创建的非自愿亲密图像（NCII）的传播。然而，尽管AIG-SC日益普及，人们对其创作者、创作动机及其生产的内容类型仍知之甚少。为促进该领域的有效治理，我们开展了一项深入研究，旨在理解AIG-SC创作者的生产内容、创作方式及动因。通过对28位AIG-SC创作者（涵盖从爱好者、创业者到管理数十万创作者社区的管理者）的访谈，研究揭示了多元化的创作动机，包括性探索、创意表达、技术实验，以及在少数案例中存在的NCII创作行为。