Coverage dossier

Erotic AI: where the big AI companies draw the line

Since 2024, SEXTECHGUIDE has tracked how the biggest names in AI decide what adults can do with their products. That runs from OpenAI's hedged openness to Sora nudity and NSFW ChatGPT, through Google's "no sexual scenes" rule for Gemini and a modest erotica loosening at ChatGPT, to Grok heading the other way with an explicit "Sexy" voice mode, adult AI companions and a "spicy" video tool that can depict real people. The lines kept moving: Microsoft refused to build erotic chatbots, Character.AI restricted under-18s only after litigation over teen deaths, and OpenAI lined up an erotic chatbot on age prediction that insiders said misclassified 12 percent of children before shelving adult chat indefinitely, while Apple's Federighi declared that Siri "is not up for that." Follow this coverage thread to see whether any of these companies will treat adults like adults, and whether the age assurance propping it all up actually works (demand, meanwhile, keeps routing around them, as unofficial integrations wiring Claude to vibrators show).