How to find AI chatbots on AdultFriendFinder

AdultFriendFinder is one of the wildest and most popular adult dating sites on the entire internet, and has been for decades, but that attention comes at a price. The site is also known to be plagued by bots, fake profiles, and scammers, and to successfully use this site, you need to be aware of this issue and know how to navigate it.

Luckily, if you have at least a minimum of internet knowledge, and you’ve been the target of online scams before (such as “once bitten, twice shy”), you should have no problem avoiding the bad guys, even in the age of agent AI, and safely enjoying all the adult fun that AFF has to offer.

To protect yourself, here are the three most common AI chatbots you might come across on AdultFriendFinder. This also includes information on how to identify them and how to remove them once you have identified them.

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Promotional chatbot

The most common type of bots deployed on AFF are promotional bots, and thankfully, they are also the most harmless. That said, it’s not an annoying bot or a huge waste of time.

Promotional bots are designed to drive traffic to a specific location, such as your Linktree, OnlyFans account, or just an Instagram page. In most cases, they act as advertisements rather than scams. In other words, they directly declare their intentions rather than hide them (“Visit this page to see my personal content”), but in some cases they may pull pages from deceptive chatbot techniques (see below) and engage you in a superficial conversation before using a link to prompt you to leave the site.

You’ll need a paid account to chat here, so you’re unlikely to encounter promotional chatbots in one-on-one conversations through the AFF matchmaking system, but you’ll likely encounter them more often in more public settings, especially at live webcam shows.

The best approach here is to ignore them completely. If you find a performer you’re interested in, the least you can do is check the destination address before clicking on a link, as there’s always a chance that you’ll be redirected to a malicious site.

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fraudulent chatbot

Given the account verification system (known as “confirmID”) and the fact that all private one-on-one chats on the site are restricted to paid members, it’s unlikely that chatbots will slide into DMs, but that doesn’t mean it’s unheard of either.

For fraudsters, AI chatbots are an easy way to scale up their fraud plans, as outsourcing phishing investigations to AI can potentially reach hundreds or even thousands more people. To make matters worse, as AI becomes more pervasive, these chatbots are becoming increasingly sophisticated and difficult to recognize. They can definitely carry on a conversation and even crack a joke, unlike 10 or even 5 years ago, when most chatbots didn’t pass the Turing test within minutes of a conversation. The latest models allow you to carry on a pleasant conversation for some time.

However, here are two major red flags that are reliable indicators that you are talking to a scammer. First, at some point they try to create a sense of urgency by telling you a story or appealing to your sympathy. You will then be asked to click a link or move the conversation to a third-party chat program.

As soon as this happens, your best defense is to stop acting. However, if you’re really unsure, you can also ask to verify your identity by phone or video call. If it’s resistant, you can be sure it’s actually a bot.

fake streamer

Large webcam sites are being taken over by fake streams, and even smaller hosting platforms like AFF aren’t immune to this problem. This scam works in one of two ways. One is that the streamer either falsifies the live stream using pre-recorded video (often someone else’s) or uses generative AI and low-quality feeds to disguise the fake stream as real.

In both cases, the real scam occurs in the comments section, where the streamer or AI agent asks for tips or subscriptions, or tries to send stream viewers to a third-party site for more content.

The two main characteristics of this type of scam are the speed at which the “streamer” is able to type into the chat, and the apparent disconnect between the “streamer’s” actions on their webcam and the input they appear to be making when replying in the comments section.

AdultFriendFinder has two main cam areas: the Member Webcam section and the Pro Models section, the latter of which is far more infested with bots. While members’ webcams rarely attract more than a dozen viewers, professional feeds often attract hundreds, making them more lucrative targets for scammers.