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Riley Reid sees the finish line.
“I’m already on an exit out, I’m not really shooting anymore,” she tells me. “I shoot for myself. My interests are going elsewhere.”
Now a wife and mother and the owner of multiple successful brands, the 32-year-old adult industry icon tells me all her business endeavors now revolve around the same theme—giving something back to the industry community.
It’s why her vision for her new artificial intelligence platform, Clona.ai, is to provide creators with an alternative way to earn what could be career-changing income from all the hard work it took to build their names.
“We have this opportunity to kind of immortalize ourselves and to be able to create this content and monetize off of it for hopefully generations later,” Reid says. “The goal is for my great, great, great granddaughter to still be making money off of great, great grandma Riley, who was doing all this porn for years of her life.
“So it’s like let’s find a way to make it worth something, to make it valuable.”
Reid, who started her porn career in 2011, continues, “We as creators risk so much of our lives and I don’t think a lot of us even realize the risks because we’re so young when we start. I don’t think a lot of us realize the things that we have to overcome. And I feel very lucky to be one of the fortunate ones.”
She’s especially excited about the prospect of opening up another revenue stream for the men of porn who often go under-appreciated for their roles in driving the industry machine. “That’s why I was really stoked with Clona when [my tech team] brought it to me because I feel like the men in porn are so objectified,” Riley says, noting what has become a standard
camera shot in which the guy’s face isn’t shown during sex acts—only his appendage.
DAN MILLER
Editor-in-Chief