Sora 2 is (almost) here, and it already got the hype machine purring perfectly: We’re being sold a future of AI-generated video on demand, of seamless storytelling. It promises a new era of collaborative creation, where every video is a conversation and every piece of content is a seed for an endless, self-referential loop of remixes.
A quick search for Sora 2 on LinkedIn shows the reality: proud posts of Sam Altman eating spaghetti, cats on the heads of ice skaters, and people doing backflips in Star Trek costumes. We have a tool that can revolutionize media, storytelling, and we’re making it generate crappy nonsense and absurdity.
From AI Hype to Hyperreality: What Sora 2 Reveals About Our Synthetic Future
This starts to feel less like a revolution and more like the sound of the bars of a beautifully rendered cage closing around us. We’re transitioning from an internet of human-authored content to a web of AI-generated synthetic experiences. The philosopher Jean Baudrillard warned of this decades ago in Simulacra and Simulation, arguing that endless simulation leads to hyperreality, where the difference between what is real and what is representation disappears. When Big Tech controls both what gets generated (the AI) and what gets seen (the platforms), the internet stops being a playground and starts looking like a sterile, shiny museum. Shiny exhibits, no real connection, as we were once all promised. AI is now putting this trend on steroids..
It’s a beautiful cage, and we need a plan to break free. Fortunately, an entire industry has been training for this exact moment: sextech.
While Big Tech sits comfortably at the top of the food chain, sextech has been innovating from the margins. Shadowbanned, censored, tabooed, and locked out of mainstream stores and ad platforms, these entrepreneurs had to get creative just to survive. In doing so, they built a playbook the rest of the tech world desperately needs right now.
Sextech Innovation: The Anti-Fragility Playbook
Sextech’s forced marginalization has forged a resilience, a kind of anti-fragility, that comfortable Big Tech labs can’t replicate. When the internet risks becoming centralized and synthetic, these three lessons offer the roadmap for staying relevant.
Lesson One: Creativity Under Pressure Forges Resilience
What happens when your ads are blocked, your payment systems shut down, and your content flagged? You find entirely new ways to reach communities and tell stories. Sextech has been forced to design around double standards for years, pioneering solutions not out of convenience, but out of necessity.
This pressure cooker environment has catalyzed early adoption of decentralized tech and Web3 models (like NFTs/crypto for content access) to ensure digital sovereignty, the ability to own and control one’s platform and payments outside the Big Tech ecosystem. That’s crucial: when Big Tech owns the generation and the distribution, decentralized infrastructure becomes the only way for content creators to escape algorithmic choke points and ensure digital sovereignty. For example, London-based startup Oh! recently secured $4.5M in seed funding to build exactly this: decentralized, uncensored AI infrastructure and tools for the spicy content industry. This investment proves that capital recognizes the resilience and necessity of these sovereign systems. The fight for freedom from censorship is the same fight the broader creator economy will soon face.
Lesson Two: Monetization Built on Connection, Not Scale
When you can’t rely on mainstream ads or App Store fees, you invent alternatives. Sextech has pioneered subscription ecosystems, hybrid products, and community-driven funding built on loyalty instead of raw scale.
This means measuring success not in clicks, but in depth of connection. This focus shift is vital: it prioritizes the long-term, direct relationship between creator and consumer, making the business far more resilient to algorithm changes or platform bans. They are masters of the creator economy that doesn’t rely on being a cog in the machine.
Lesson Three: Authenticity Beats the Algorithm Eventually
In a world of flawless, synthetic sensation, we are forced to ask: what becomes the ultimate value? I believe it becomes the one thing the simulation cannot genuinely replicate: the messy, unpredictable, and deeply physical experience of being in a human body with another.
AI will get better at faking “realness,” but humans can sniff out a copy-paste soul. Sextech knows how to make the raw, the vulnerable, and the weird thrive, exactly the things that can’t be manufactured by generative models or polished away by corporate curation. An AI can generate a perfect video of a kiss, the light, the shadow, mimic the emotion on the faces. But it cannot feel the quickened pulse, the warmth of skin, the faint, subconscious scent of another person. It can script a scene of a hand being held, but it is incapable of understanding the complex biochemistry of comfort, the subtle pressure that says “I’m here,” or the shared history that makes that touch significant.
This gap isn’t a technical oversight; it’s a philosophical chasm. AI deals in representations. Humanity is rooted in embodied experience. Our consciousness isn’t just in our brains; it’s mediated through our entire physical being. This is the frontier that pure simulation cannot cross.
As Baudrillard foresaw, the most radical danger is not bad AI, but a culture where genuine, embodied connection is crowded out by the sterile perfection of algorithmic synthesis.
That’s why tools like Image Angel’s watermarking system, matter. They’re not just about protecting IP; they’re about protecting identity and realness, a technological defense for the embodied self, a refusal to let Big Tech turn everything into anonymous sludge.
Technologies like watermarking, decentralized identity, and content provenance standards (such as C2PA, blockchain verification, and emerging content authenticity initiatives) form the early architecture of an authenticity infrastructure. These systems preserve origin, authorship, and human traceability in an increasingly synthetic media ecosystem. They’re not just about digital rights, they’re about digital reality.
Real human connection comes with traceable roots, not endlessly cloned noise.
AI Embodiment: Why Real Connection Can’t Be Simulated
The core value of sextech’s innovation lies in its refusal to play by Big Tech’s rules. It doesn’t just survive the system; it reinvents it. It doesn’t just monetize attention; it monetizes connection. It doesn’t just chase scale; it chases anti-fragility.
That’s why, when the online world risks becoming one giant AI wallpaper factory, the industry forged in fire, the one that values vulnerability and direct connection, will offer the only sustainable, human-centered blueprint for the future of the internet. The next true frontier isn’t in the cloud, but in the body. The most radical tech of the coming decade won’t be that which better simulates reality for our eyes and ears, but that which connects to, enhances, and ultimately respects our tangible, physical presence in the world.
Embodied First.
This is the part marketers and innovators must internalize: if you want to survive an AI-saturated internet, don’t just ask “what can we generate?” Ask “what can’t be faked?” The answer will always live in the realness of human.
When AI eats the internet, it won’t be a more advanced algorithm that saves us from the sterile loop of synthetic content. It will be the defiant, irreplaceable, and deeply human rediscovery of our own skin and bones.
Transparency & Interesting sources to read
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Of course on Simulacra and Simulation 🙂
Baudrillard, J. (1981). Simulacra and Simulation. book on simulation, reality, and the philosophical implications of copying and artificiality. We exist in an age where representations created by media, advertising, and technology are taken as reality itself, resulting in what he calls “hyperreality”. Also interesting to read are McLuhan and Merleau-Ponty.
On sora (2) and AI video generation
OpenAI. (2025, Sep 29). Sora 2 is here. Official documentation outlining Sora 2’s capabilities, rollout, and system updates.
https://openai.com/index/sora-2/
OpenAI. (2025, Sep 29). Sora 2 System Card. Detailed explanation of Sora 2’s technical, ethical, and policy mitigations.
https://openai.com/index/sora-2-system-card/
OpenAI. (2025, Sep 29). Launching Sora responsibly. Responsible AI deployment policies, bias mitigation, and platform governance.
https://openai.com/index/launching-sora-responsibly/
Washington Post (2025) Everything is fake on Silicon Valley’s hottest new social network https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/02/sora-openai-video-face-fake
The Guardian (2025, October 6). OpenAI promises more ‘granular control’ to copyright owners after Sora 2 generates videos of popular characters. . https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/06/open-ai-promises-more-granular-control-copyright-owners-sora-2-generates-videos-popular-characters
WIRED, L. Matsakis (2025, March 12). OpenAI’s Sora is plagued by sexist, racist, and ableist biases. WIRED. https://www.wired.com/story/openai-sora-video-generator-bias
On Sextech, Censorship, and Decentralization
Mordor Intelligence. (2024). Sextech market size & share analysis – growth trends & forecasts (2025–2030). Mordor Intelligence. https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/sextech-market
SmartCompany. (2023, August 21). Taboo no more: The sextech industry is on the rise, and these players are making waves. SmartCompany. https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/sextech-industry-players-making-waves
Degenhard, J. (2023, November 7). OnlyFans and Patreon models turn to Web3 amid payment and censorship fears. Cointelegraph. https://cointelegraph.com/news/onlyfans-patreon-models-turn-to-web3-payment-censorship-fears
AInvest. (2024, March 22). Decentralized adult entertainment and crypto asset allocation: A niche content monetization revolution. AInvest. https://www.ainvest.com/news/decentralized-adult-entertainment-crypto-asset-allocation-niche-content-monetization-revolution-2509
Tibken, S. (2017, March 7). Payment processors are still policing your sex life — and that’s a problem. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/payment-processors-are-still-policing-your-sex-life
Linkdood on OhChat: New AI-Driven OhChat Brings OnlyFans-Style Content into the Future https://linkdood.com/new-ai-driven-ohchat-brings-onlyfans-style-content-into-the-future/#:~:text=Revenue%20splits%20begin%20at%2050,AI%20twin%20requires%20signed%20consent.
General AI video ethics and control
Karagöz, A. (2023). Ethics and Technical Aspects of Generative AI Models in Digital Content Creation. Academic analysis of creativity, diversity, bias, and misuse in generative content workflows. https://arxiv.org/html/2412.16389v1
Berkman Klein Center. (2025). Ethics and Governance of AI. Ongoing research and policy discussions on AI governance, transparency, and digital rights. https://cyber.harvard.edu/topics/ethics-and-governance-ai
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