I don't know if you remember when you first heard about chat GPT back in 2022

when it first came out and kind of took the world by storm.

How quickly did you think, oh, this is going to be used for sex?

Not quickly enough.

I mean, obviously, I should have thought that.

Because all tech eventually, or almost immediately, is used for sex.

My colleague Sam Shetner covers the sex industry, or sorry, I mean the tech industry.

Sex and tech actually have gone together for quite a while.

When you look at new technologies, almost one of the first things people do with it is create porn.

That's true with that first cameras.

Some of the first things people did.

Back in the 1800s was to take pictures of naked people.

And that's been true with other tech innovations along the way. The rise of personal phones,

you have phone sex lines. You have video and television and you have porn movies.

And early growth in the internet certainly was driven in part by pornography.

And it remains a huge business.

For the hottest technology these days, artificial intelligence, it's the same story.

New at 11 tonight, could AI be getting X-rated?

Last October, OpenAI said it was working on a new chat GPT feature that would eventually be called adult mode.

A less censored version of that chat bot that will include, drum roll, please, erotica.

CEO Sam Altman says the chatbot will get more of a personality and, quote, treat adult users like adults.

But many of the adults inside OpenAI were not cool with this idea.

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