(NewsNation) — ChatGPT, the most popular AI chatbot in the world, is expanding into pornographic territory starting later this year.
The move, reminiscent of Grok recently introducing two sexually explicit chatbots, is likely to intensify pressure on lawmakers to introduce tighter restrictions on chatbot companions.
AI intimacy expert Bryony Cole and host of “The Future of Sex” podcast tells NewsNation the “toothpaste is out of the tube,” however.
“It mimics texting with a friend or a boyfriend or a girlfriend. It’s very much simulating the intimacy that we experience with our partners through text, but the difference is, it’s synthetic,” Cole said on “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.”
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Cole expects that synthetic, pornographic images, videos and video calls will soon be pervasive in the world of AI, which will somewhat replicate relations for certain individuals.
Verified adult users will be able to have erotic chats with the techbot, as founder Sam Altman says it’s part of the company’s “treat adults like adults” principle. It is a change in position for OpenAI, the company that owns ChatGPT, which currently does not allow explicit material.
As for protective measures, Cole believes parental controls, age verification and education are ways to prevent teenagers and children from being exposed to explicit content or chatbots.
“Teenagers will, they’ll always find a way to work around and get what they want out of it, much like we’ve seen with social media and Facebook before. So I actually don’t think a ban on this is going to solve it anyway,” she said.
“So it’s more figuring out, how do we educate people? How do we educate kids and ourselves really about what it looks like to have AI intimacy or see sexual content on AI and know, ‘Hey, that’s not real.'”
