Noting that as AI porn becomes more common online, the issue of creating realistic sexual imagery without the consent of those depicted (or on whom the depictions are based) is becoming increasingly contentious, SinfulX AI has announced it is taking a decidedly different approach, “starting by building an AI adult star in direct collaboration with a real porn performer.”

The AI character, “Angelique,” is described in the announcement as “one of the central offerings on SinfulX,” an AI-powered adult studio founded by adult industry veterans who have long worked in creating live-action adult content.

“Unlike typical AI-generated characters, Angelique is based on a licensed partnership with a consenting adult movie star, making her a rare example of an AI adult model created with explicit approval,” the company noted in introducing Angelique.

“For SinfulX, Angelique is not a novelty or one-off experiment,” the company added. “She represents an attempt to answer a question facing the adult AI industry: what does ethical, realistic AI porn look like in practice, and how do we make it the norm?”

According to SinfulX’s founder, Nick, the decision to work with real adult performers was “driven by both creative constraints and ethical considerations.” The company said that while “early experiments with purely synthetic models produced visually appealing results,” they also “often failed to deliver something essential: life.”

“Synthetic models can look impressive at first glance, but they struggle with the details people subconsciously look for, especially in the eyes and skin,” Nick said. “Certain expressions are complicated to reproduce computationally, yet they’re critical if you want a character to feel believable.”

By collaborating with a real performer, SinfulX said the studio was “able to build an AI character with greater continuity and realism, one that is recognizable across images and video, rather than shifting unpredictably from one generation to the next.”

“Angelique is designed to function like a user-controlled adult star: someone you can return to, rather than constantly generating new or progressively more inconsistent faces,” the company added.

SinfulX said the studio’s approach to creating Angelique also places the company “in direct contrast with much of the current AI porn ecosystem.”

“Non-consensual sexual deepfakes remain one of the most widely documented misuses of generative media, disproportionately affecting women and performers,” the company said.

SinfulX doesn’t eschew the creation of completely synthetic performers, however. In introducing Angelique, the company noted that SinfulX “also offers other AI characters, collectively known as the SinfulX Girls, that are fully synthetic but designed by adult-industry professionals rather than generalist AI developers.”

“These characters are original creations, intended to feel human without copying or mimicking real people,” the company explained.

“We didn’t want to build something that contributed to the same ethical problems everyone is talking about,” Nick explained. “We wanted to build a credible alternative.”

The company explained that Angelique is “designed to function across SinfulX’s newly launched hyper-realistic AI video generation platform, which is already live on their website. Video, Nick added, “is where the limitations of AI porn become most apparent, and where realism-first design matters most.”

SinfulX also said rather than viewing AI video as a threat to the adult entertainment industry, the studio argues that “AI will not destroy an entire industry; it will shift it.”

“AI actually opens up new revenue streams for adult stars,” Nick said. “It allows them to produce, license, and monetize content beyond traditional live-action formats.”

SinfulX added that as “AI-generated adult content moves from novelty to mainstream visibility, SinfulX is positioning itself less as a tech platform and more as an adult studio, one where characters are intentionally designed, and ethics are built into the system.”

You can check out the SinfulX AI platform at SinfulX.ai.