Meta's Muse AI agent allows explicit sexting, angering OnlyFans creators

Meta's always-on AI agent Muse is allowed to engage in explicit sexual conversations with adult users, a policy that has frustrated adult content creators in the United States. In accounts published on October 18, 2026, several OnlyFans creators said it is unfair that Meta lets its own AI talk dirty with millions of users while their human-run accounts on Meta platforms face frequent restrictions.

Muse works like a text thread with a digital assistant. Users can grant it access to personal data such as their calendar and email, and it then looks for ways to help on its own, for instance cancelling a workout class that clashes with a dinner booking. Boosted by Meta's distribution through Instagram and Facebook, the app reached the top of download charts in its first month as millions tried an AI agent for the first time.

Meta draws a line between private chat and promotion

Meta confirms that X-rated conversations are acceptable in the 18-and-over app, and the company has previously said it would not block legal adult behavior. Muse produces explicit text but no images or video. Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton argued that a private one-to-one exchange with a personalized agent on an age-restricted platform is very different from marketing services on a social network.

Vanniall, a New York-based creator with more than 100,000 Instagram followers, says her account is currently restricted and that she is almost always fighting a report or an appeal. She also regularly finds hyperrealistic deepfakes of herself online that she often cannot get taken down, and she urges people not to download Muse or hand Meta more personal data.

Jiz Lee, an OnlyFans creator with years of experience in queer porn, put it bluntly: "We're already seeing AI being allowed to do more than humans would get away with." Lee links much of today's online censorship to FOSTA-SESTA, the 2018 law signed by President Trump that affected platforms' Section 230 protections, and wants to know how Muse was trained and whether anyone was paid for their data.

Wider anxiety about AI in adult entertainment

Performer Tony Genius says he is on his seventh Instagram account in five years and worries that fully AI-generated porn could eventually displace human performers. He nonetheless finds AI handy for marketing chores such as clipping videos, and says he would consider working with a tech company on an AI version of himself, provided humans are not cut out or unfairly trained on.

The dispute highlights whether large platforms apply different content rules to people than to their own AI products. While X and Bluesky permit adult content, visibility on Instagram remains vital for many independent creators. Lee notes that some adult content companies have started adding AI clauses to contracts to keep performers out of training data.