Elon Musk’s xAI has already gone well down that road with its AI Companions, which launched during the summer within the Grok chatbot. The companions, reserved for Premium subscribers on the Grok app, have a “NSFW” mode and are willing and ready to engage in sexy conversation.

Artificial-intelligence tech giant OpenAI has announced plans to introduce sexually explicit material for its ChatGPT AI-based chatbot later this year — a move that a conservative advocacy group says risks introducing “real mental health harms from synthetic intimacy” without appropriate safeguards.

During a recent fireside chat, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posed a question about the future of AI and whether it was about to pass a major landmark.