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The AI smut market is booming, and tech executives are starting to notice.<\/p>\n
Indeed, one study found that about 16 percent<\/a> of adults are having at least weekly intimate conversations with AI chatbots, while naughty AI generators<\/a> are churning out hundreds of thousands of images a day. By one estimate, the market for AI erotica is said to be worth around $2.5 billion<\/a> in 2025 alone.<\/p>\n With so much up for grabs, it\u2019s no wonder OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants a piece of the pie.<\/p>\n Back in October, Altman announced<\/a> ChatGPT would soon begin giving verified adult users access to \u201cerotica,\u201d as part of a \u201ctreat adult users like adults\u201d mantra.<\/p>\n Speaking to the press, OpenAI\u2019s CEO of Applications Fidji Simo said she expects ChatGPT\u2019s \u201cadult mode\u201d to go live sometime in the first three months of 2026, according to <\/a>The Verge<\/a>. (She also added the not-so-reassuring caveat that the company needs to get \u201cbetter at age prediction\u201d before it releases the feature.)<\/p>\n Simo said that OpenAI is already testing adult mode out in some countries before it rolls out in the US, though didn\u2019t say exactly which countries were being used as guinea pigs. She also added that the company wants to be just as confident that it\u2019s \u201cnot misidentifying adults\u201d as it is that it\u2019s filtering out children.<\/p>\n When the company does finally turn on the hose, ChatGPT is sure to become an erotic fountain of epic proportions. Online tools for generating AI smut are already prolific<\/a>, flooding the internet with nonconsensual deepfakes<\/a> \u2014 a horrifying situation which the most widely used AI chatbot is likely to make worse.<\/p>\n OpenAI\u2019s moves notably follow Elon Musk\u2019s decision to turn his own proprietary AI, Grok, into a hybrid skin flick generator<\/a> and virtual girlfriend<\/a> all wrapped into one.<\/p>\n It also comes right on the heels of CNBC talking head Jim Cramer\u2019s<\/a> prediction that OpenAI would soon lose tens of millions of users to Google\u2019s Gemini 3. In early December, OpenAI internally declared what it calls \u201ccode red\u201d mode \u2014 a mad scramble to quickly improve ChatGPT as Gemini 3 threatens its lead<\/a> as the dominant AI chatbot.<\/p>\n Whatever happens next is difficult to say, but it\u2019s likely the web will never be the same.<\/p>\n