--- title: "Gooners Say Their Brains Are Becoming Hopelessly Hijacked by AI Smut" description: "AI-generated adult content is already becoming a huge problem for some men — and they're imploring others to avoid it at all costs." date: "2025-08-10" modified: "2025-08-10" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/gooners-hijacked-ai" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" tags: - "addiction" - "ai images" - "Psychology" - "sexuality" --- # Gooners Say Their Brains Are Becoming Hopelessly Hijacked by AI Smut ![AI-generated adult content is already becoming a huge problem for some men — and they're imploring others to avoid it at all costs.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* Though it's still pretty niche, AI-generated adult content is already becoming a huge problem for some men — and they're imploring others to avoid it at all costs. In an [interview with *Wired*](), a 26-year-old man referred to only by his first name, Kyle, said he began to go down the rabbit hole of AI smut after stumbling upon an AI-generated Instagram Reel depicting a woman with "extremely large breasts the size of her body." "In the back of my mind, I was like, OK, I do find this kind of attractive," the young man told the magazine. "It was something I had not seen before — and I had to see more." A self-described "[gooner]()," Kyle's first encounter with AI-generated adult material acted as a gateway drug for more — and increasingly extreme — content along those same lines. Soon, he was searching for features that could not possibly exist in real life, such as "women with cartoonish boobs, areolas, and nipples twice the size of the rest of her torso, \[and\] super wide hips." Unsurprisingly, things started to spiral out of control. While his girlfriend slept nearby, Kyle would browse adult sites like Xvideos for the things that initially got him off — but eventually, as we've seen with [more traditional smut](), that stuff stopped doing it for him. "I started looking for more taboo things," he told *Wired*. "And then it got to a point where that didn't arouse me anymore. So I had to search for even more AI." In the background of Kyle's burgeoning addiction stood a stark discrepancy: the psychiatric community is torn on whether [addiction to adult content even exists](), with many suggesting that it's merely shame from religious upbringings that causes distress in those who visit mental health professionals over it. Instead, the recognized psychological term is "compulsive sexual behavior disorder" or CSBD. In online spaces like the r/NoFap subreddit, other self-style gooners have bonded together to beat their addictions, whether they have the recognition of the psychiatric community or not. Their latest bogeyman: AI-generated adult content. In [one from June](), as flagged by *Wired*, a relapsed NoFapper said they "came across the devil himself" when they encountered such content. "And you know they say," the user wrote. "The road to hell is really fun." Cautioning their fellow gooners, the user predicted that AI smut is "going to get harder to avoid because it captures all your vices and traps you" — and in the comments, their comrades agreed, with one noting that it's "[insane and insanely addictive]()." Kyle, meanwhile, decided he needed to make a change after noticing not only that sex with his partner had become less pleasurable, but also that she too seemed to have "gotten the proverbial ick" from him. He joined NoFap, began curbing his consumption, and started to grapple with what he'd fallen into. Kyle now considers AI smut to be "one of the worst technological developments that we have coming up right now" — and thinks we're about to run into a societal wall of dependence on it. **More on AI and relationships:** [*Nation Cringes as Man Goes on TV to Declare That He's in Love With ChatGPT*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()