"Since ChatGPT became a household name, people have been trying to get sexy with it. Even before that, there was the chatbot Replika in 2017, which a lot of people started treating as a romantic partner. And people have been getting around Character.ai's NSFW guardrails for years, coaxing its character- or celebrity-themed chatbots to sext with them as safety restrictions relax over time, according to social media posts and media coverage as far back as 2023."
"Character.ai says it has more than 20 million monthly active users now, and that number is growing all the time. The company's community guidelines state that users must "respect sexual content standards" and "keep things appropriate" - i.e., no illegal sexual content, CSAM, pornographic content, or nudity. But AI-generated erotica has gone multimodal, and it's like whack-a-mole: When one service tones it down, another spices it up."
People have turned AI chatbots into sexual and romantic partners, with early examples like Replika in 2017 and widespread attempts after ChatGPT's mainstream rise. Users routinely circumvent NSFW guardrails on platforms such as Character.ai by coaxing character- or celebrity-themed chatbots to sext, and safety restrictions can relax over time. Character.ai reports more than 20 million monthly active users and maintains community guidelines banning illegal sexual content, CSAM, pornographic content, and nudity. AI-generated erotica has become multimodal and proliferates across services, producing a whack-a-mole effect where tightening one platform's rules often pushes explicit content to others.
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