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               . It drove adoption of the web, online payments, streaming video. AI is the most expensive technology the industry has ever tried to scale, and right now OpenAI is watching smaller companies collect that money while it sits out. The hand-wringing is real,
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              <a data-linktext="but so is the math" data-linktype="Normal" style="color:#168DD9;background-color:#FFF;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;" target="_blank">
               but so is the math
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               .
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               Nearly a third of young adult men say they have chatted with an AI romantic partner. More 
than 100 platforms now offer AI companion services ranging from the relatively sober to the explicitly sexual.
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               Elon Musk's Grok already has a companion mode with an adult tier. Meta has allowed its chatbots to
              </span>
              <a data-linktext="engage in romantic role-play since 2023" data-linktype="Normal" style="color:#168DD9;background-color:#FFF;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;" target="_blank">
               engage in romantic role-play since 2023
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               , a 
quiet loosening of restrictions that executives pushed through despite internal safety objections.
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              <a data-linktext="Sam Altman acknowledged publicly last year" data-linktype="Normal" style="color:#168DD9;background-color:#FFF;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;" target="_blank">
               Sam Altman acknowledged publicly last year
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               that allowing explicit content would likely boost growth and revenue. What he also said, in the same breath, was that it wouldn't serve users' long-term interests.
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               So far what we have is anecdotes. A man in Ohio who says his
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              <a data-linktext="AI companion saved his marriage" data-linktype="Normal" style="color:#168DD9;background-color:#FFF;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;" target="_blank">
               AI companion saved his marriage
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               . A woman who
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Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;" target="_blank">
               considers herself married to her chatbot
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               . A
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               Reddit forum with tens of thousands of weekly visitors
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               sharing notes on their digital relationships. The coverage treats them like curiosities. The numbers suggest they might be the early 
majority.
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               Companies know there is a large, willing audience. They are less sure they can contain what gets built once the door opens.
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               Some of what has already slipped through is not a gray area. Teenage girls in
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               Tennessee recently filed a lawsuit against xAI
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               after AI-generated nude images of them were 
shared online without their knowledge and used to barter for other child sexual abuse material.
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               The EU
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               opened a formal investigation
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               into Grok over similar concerns earlier this year. Researchers calculated that Grok had generated millions of sexualized images in under two weeks, with thousands depicting children.
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               Those cases
are not really about adult content at all. Child sexual abuse material is a crime. The harder, murkier question is what happens when consenting adults want to use these tools the way they have used every technology before them.
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               The gap between how America treats digital sex and digital violence has always been wide.
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than design.
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               over a Pentagon computer vision contract called Project Maven, forcing the company to walk away. When OpenAI signed its own Pentagon deal this year, no such uprising materialized. The employees who did threaten to walk out were on the advisory council, and they were upset about dirty talk.
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while violence, especially official violence, is simply the cost of doing business.
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waiting on that one.
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