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OpenAI’s pivot to porn is problematic – but lucrative
Erotic role-play via ChatGPT will be able to tap a big potential market.
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Chatbot romance is a confirmed money maker even before ChatGPT's planned entry into the world of AI erotica
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Parmy Olson
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When you’re building artificial intelligence to benefit humanity, you might have to compromise.
AI is expensive, so you raise billions of dollars from investors like Microsoft, Nvidia and the United Arab Emirates. As you strive to build super-intelligent computers that will cure cancer, you also need to make money for your backers. So, after pitching your powerful chatbot technology to businesses, who struggle to make it useful, your next option may be monetising your enormous user base of 800 million weekly visitors – with a sex bot.
