Men report severe addiction to AI-generated adult content with impossible anatomies

A growing number of men are reporting severe addiction to AI-generated adult content, with users describing how the technology’s ability to create impossible anatomical features has hijacked their brains and escalated their consumption patterns. The phenomenon highlights emerging concerns about how AI-generated content could create more addictive and extreme forms of digital dependency than traditional adult material.

What you should know: Self-described “gooners” in online communities are warning others about AI-generated adult content’s addictive potential.

• A 26-year-old man named Kyle told Wired his addiction began after encountering an AI-generated Instagram Reel depicting a woman with “extremely large breasts the size of her body.”
• Kyle’s consumption escalated to searching for anatomically impossible features like “women with cartoonish boobs, areolas, and nipples twice the size of the rest of her torso, [and] super wide hips.”
• Users in the r/NoFap subreddit, an online support community for those trying to quit adult content, are describing AI adult content as particularly dangerous, with one relapsed user calling it “the devil himself.”

The addiction spiral: Kyle’s experience illustrates how AI-generated content can create more extreme dependency patterns than traditional adult material.

• He began browsing adult sites while his girlfriend slept nearby, but traditional content eventually stopped satisfying him.
• “I started looking for more taboo things,” Kyle 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.”
• The addiction affected his relationship, with Kyle noting that sex with his partner became less pleasurable and she had “gotten the proverbial ick” from him.

The psychiatric debate: The mental health community remains divided on whether adult content addiction constitutes a legitimate disorder.

• Many professionals suggest distress over adult content consumption stems from shame related to religious upbringings rather than true addiction.
• The recognized psychological term is “compulsive sexual behavior disorder” (CSBD), not addiction.
• Despite this debate, online communities like r/NoFap continue to support users struggling with these behaviors.

What they’re saying: Users in recovery communities are issuing stark warnings about AI-generated content’s addictive potential.

• “The road to hell is really fun,” wrote one NoFap user who relapsed after encountering AI adult content.
• The same user predicted AI smut is “going to get harder to avoid because it captures all your vices and traps you.”
• Kyle now considers AI adult content “one of the worst technological developments that we have coming up right now” and believes society is heading toward widespread dependence on it.

Why this matters: The emergence of AI-generated adult content represents a potential escalation in digital addiction patterns, with the technology’s ability to create impossible fantasies potentially making it more addictive than traditional material. As AI generation tools become more accessible and sophisticated, these warnings from early users suggest society may face new challenges in managing digital wellness and healthy relationships.