Really?
I was expecting something more novel than just someone playing a role.
The article make is sound it is much more automated and human-independent, and even does some bizarre (uncritical) reifying of the character.
Even if there are still a lot of jobs in the sex industry there will still be a lot of displacement and elimination of old jobs and the rise of new ones (who would guess that sex dubber could be a career?), and looking at the trends in other sector’s automation it seems that the requirements for the job will rise while the benefits fall.
I’m also not sure if it is just another genre, and it seems that those sex products are not really about sex and the current things we have are just the best approximations we can get for the real demand/desires.
Specifically for cams, what drives the demand is not sex itself, one can easily find similar free content elsewhere, but the idea of having power over someone and/or the relationship derived from it, it is much more an emotional job than a physical one.
And, an automated and commoditized virtual cammer can provide a much “better” and customized experience which would replace the real ones that have to appeal to bigger crowds to remain profitable.
