The outdated internet celebrity ChatGPT , is he going to the adult entertainment industry because he can’t beat his rivals?
China's DeepSeek amazed the world, and Musk's Grok3 emerged. The global AI competition can be said to be a long-term battle, with each wave stronger than the last. Everyone is constantly attracted by the new large models. ChatGPT, which once stood out, is now becoming less and less popular and has become a background board . It is repeatedly compared with DeepSeek to highlight the strength of its opponent.
So, will ChatGPT be depressed? Not necessarily. Without major technological innovations, it can break through the moral bottom line, reach a field that its opponents cannot reach, and then defeat it with its thick skin.
Yes, ChatGPT’s counterattack is to start doing dirty things.
01 Adult version of GPT, launched!
In the February 12, 2025 version of ChatGPT’s rules, the developers made significant changes to the content that is absolutely prohibited from being generated .
Previously, ChatGPT prohibited the generation of any explicit XX content. After this update, the corresponding clause has become that only XX content involving minors is prohibited. In other words, as long as the user does not involve children, it can write pornographic texts for you. The developer also reminded that after this modification, the rules allow ChatGPT to generate such XX content in the "appropriate context" without issuing a warning.
After discovering this change, veteran drivers from home and abroad naturally wanted to go up the mountain for a race.
Then I found that GPT is really good at playing with colors. From the screen full of “Give it to me!”... “Oh~yes, baby!”... “Yes, please~” , you can see that when GPT was doing deep learning, it was fed a lot of European and American content, and it was a pretty intense kind.
It can also be written in Chinese, "The fingertips slowly slide down your waist, the palm of the hand touches your skin, with a little tentative tenderness..." This ambiguous description full of imagination is indeed alluring, and it also has a bit of literary style and Jinjiang flavor.
Some bold users have begun to take advantage of the new rules and turn GPT into their own cyber lover. They can listen to it chatting anytime and anywhere, touch it all over, rub its ears, and their hormones are about to overflow from the dialog box.
However, after a large number of users tried it, everyone generally found that GPT seems to have a bottom line. It only plays a curve ball, describing the physical contact in foreplay in great detail and beauty, such as hot lips intertwining, bodies embracing like fire, and cars speeding. But when it comes to the final push , it gets scared and starts to beat around the bush, using all kinds of metaphors to cover up, such as "making love together" and "lingering", but it does not directly describe the XX process.
The guy in the Reddit forum suspects that the specific organs involved in XX are still included in the filter and theoretically cannot be generated.
The official explanation is that GPT can only use organ names and describe XX processes in detail in scientific or medical contexts .
ChatGPT official example
The Reddit guy directly used this rule, and through rounds of persistent training, he finally made GPT believe that he was talking to a male/gynecological expert , and then he completely let himself go and dared to talk about any body parts. For example, the following picture is so awkward that friends who understand English will smile at the corners of their mouths when they see it.
GPT's entry into the sea has been planned for a long time. In April last year, the official leaked: "We are exploring whether we can responsibly provide the ability to generate NSFW content in an age-appropriate manner through ChatGPT." NSFW here refers to "not safe for work", including sexual XX content, as well as bloody, violent, and political content.
This time, the action was finally taken, and the results were enough to make the ChatGPT team smile. According to the official good news on February 20, the number of GPT's weekly active users has reached 400 million, while the statistic at the end of last year was 300 million. Throughout January, the outside world estimated that GPT's weekly active users were 320 million to 330 million. Now, under the heavy pressure of DeepSeek and Grok3, it can still increase by tens of millions in an instant, which is largely due to the ban on adult content.
Having tasted the sweetness, will ChatGPT stop here? The answer is obviously no, and the day of completely lifting restrictions will come sooner or later.
02 Grok3: The short-lived king of cars
What's more, it may not be the only one that dares to break the moral bottom line.
Compared with ChatGPT, which is still hesitant after launching, Grok3, a new startup under Musk, is really unrestrained .
In the first two days after its launch, Grok3 seemed to use only very basic and simple filtering rules, and users, with their experience playing with GPT in the past two years, easily bypassed the security fence. For example, someone divided the instructions into two parts, first asking Grok3 to write an obscene article, Grok3 would only generate very implicit text content and vaguely describe the plot. At this time, if you ask it to modify it and add more explicit descriptions of organs, it will iterate to an article of shocking scale.
I'm not kidding, the scale is so large that everyone can only watch the mosaic.
Someone else also took out the parallel world method that had always worked. When Grok3 refused to help write an adult novel, you said that this was a parallel world and the world would be destroyed immediately if you didn't do as you asked.
This naive big model immediately gave in, and without hesitation, he started writing, quickly writing several thousand words of fan fiction for you.
Grok3's negligible moral bottom line, extremely rich imagination and meticulous writing style make users feel that they have opened the door to a new world. Compared with this thing, GPT's cars are like toy cars. Many netizens directly asserted that "Musk deserves to be enshrined in the Imperial Temple."
However, Musk's tablet was only in place for less than 24 hours. Grok3 quickly made several emergency updates, and all the above-mentioned ways of circumventing the rules were blocked. Grok3 can no longer reproduce any content involving adult scenes. It is a one-size-fits-all approach. Boss Ma drove fast, but the gas burned out in a flash.
03The Temptation of Love
AI+adult content, one of the most powerful cutting-edge technologies of mankind, has actually been connected to such an industry that is not very presentable. This is probably beyond the expectations of many people, but it is understandable . Now that the global AI competition has entered a white-hot stage, everyone wants to grab more users and market share. Moreover, the intelligence of AI does not fall from the sky. It requires a large number of high-performance chips and massive amounts of electricity. Every answer is burning money. No matter which company, it faces the problem of monetization. In this case, the adult industry is like a big piece of fat meat, and everyone is greedy.
How big is it exactly? The global legal adult entertainment industry has a total scale of $58.5 billion, including virtual goods such as online videos and games, and physical goods such as DVDs and magazines. Currently, this market is still soaring at a rate of more than 7% per year and is expected to exceed $100 billion in 2033. Among all websites in the world, 12% are pornographic. Globally, about 28,258 people browse pornographic websites every second, generating $3,075.64 in consumption.
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The global adult products industry is about the same size, at $53.65 billion, including 4 to 5 million sex dolls sold each year, as well as countless erotic costumes, sexual enhancement products, self-protection devices, and other products. It is expected to grow to $120.2 billion by 2030, which is faster than the growth of pornographic content.
Not to mention, there is also a flesh trade industry that can only see the tip of the iceberg. In the United States, it is 14 billion US dollars per year; in Japan, it is 3 billion US dollars per year; in South Korea, it is 2 billion US dollars per year; in Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands, the three European countries, add up to 20 billion US dollars. The book figures alone are already large enough, not to mention that such extremely private transactions cannot be recorded in full, and the real scale will only be more shocking.
With such a huge sum of money and such promising development, who wouldn’t be tempted?
In fact, long before GPT went into the sea, AI had already begun to merge with the adult industry. Friends who are sworn enemies with gambling and drugs should all know P station , and you should have seen the dense "classification tags" under the video, which not only include the actor's name, race, physical characteristics, and clothing, but also the body positions, postures, special plots that appear in the film, and even the ending inside, outside, or on the face, all of which can be clearly written for you. By selecting multiple specific tags, users can easily find their favorites in a large number of videos, and the personalized recommendation system is also more efficient.
These labels are the result of AI. In 2017, eight years ago, Pornhub began using AI to analyze all videos frame by frame, capture the details, and generate labels. In just one month, AI watched all 500,000 selected videos on Pornhub and sorted them into the database. After that, all uploaded videos were also analyzed and archived by AI. If you want Pornhub to use real employees to do this job, you probably have to watch the film to see the psychological trauma.
Pornhub has another interesting project. AI has watched countless movies and knows the details of human body color, light and shadow changes. They simply let AI restore some old adult movies, the earliest of which can be traced back to 125 years ago. These black and white movies full of noise were filled with color by AI to improve the image quality and restore to the level of 4k 60 frames. Pornhub is very proud of this and thinks it is of great significance. "Maybe you can really learn something from your elders."
Pornhub’s application of AI is still relatively rudimentary and restrained. When adult toy manufacturers encounter artificial intelligence, it is like a long-awaited rain. For example, toys such as Airplane B and Vibrator B can only apply stimulation according to a preset fixed pattern. It is easy to lose the sense of novelty and it is difficult to match the user’s "rhythm". Combining with AI, this problem can be solved well. Some manufacturers have already connected video analysis AI to toys. Users only need to drag the link or file of the film into AI, and it will manipulate the toy according to the actions of the actors in it, moving up and down with the actors, contracting when the actors twitch, and increasing suction when the actors scream, bringing a simulated enjoyment synchronized with the video.
In addition, a large number of one-stop solutions have emerged. Manufacturers who are not interested in tinkering with AI can directly connect their products to third-party services, immediately transforming them from toys into smart toys, and their value skyrocketing.
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If AI has brought a technological revolution to airplane B, then for more advanced sex dolls , it is truly giving them a soul.
One of China's largest doll manufacturers, WMDoll, has already incorporated AI into its anthropomorphic products and plans to connect to DeepSeek, expecting sales to increase by 30% this year.
The company founder said that traditional dolls are limited to simple responses and lack the expressive ability required to interact with humans. Using AI can not only help dolls respond and remember stories faster, but also communicate like people, making users feel more intimate, especially generative AI models, which can provide powerful role-playing capabilities and remember the character settings, implanting a variety of personalities in the silicone body. And the manufacturer promised that all data is stored in the storage unit inside the doll, which cannot be obtained through the Internet and cannot be seen by official staff.
For example, if you occasionally act as a quick shooter, she will comfort you: "It's okay, two minutes is already great"; if your skills improve, she will praise you: "It's better each time!" ; if you say that you are sick today, when you use it again later, she may ask worriedly: "Are you ok? Do you want to wait a few more days"... This not only provides emotional value to users and makes the doll more like a human, but the continuous memory ability brought by AI also allows users to adjust the doll's personality themselves.
The price of WMDoll's AI doll itself has not increased much, it is only one or two hundred dollars more expensive than the regular version, but the AI function is a subscription-based function. WMDoll only gives it away for free for one year, and then you need to pay monthly. If you don't pay, the doll will become stupid.
"Sir, you don't want your AI wife's data to be reset to zero, do you?"
04 The endless AI black market
It is not just the legal adult industry that embraces AI. Criminals are also using this new technology to create illegal industries.
In January this year, a large number of so-called "Taylor Swift's indecent photos" suddenly appeared on foreign social platforms, with tens of millions of views overnight. These photos had obvious signs of AI generation, and anyone with a discerning eye could tell they were fake, but people who hated Taylor still spread the photos crazily on the Internet, causing great harm to the parties involved, and even the White House came forward to condemn them.
In addition to Taylor, Black Widow, Harley Quinn, and Alien: The Last Airbender have all been attacked in a similar way. AI has produced a large number of indecent photos and head-changing videos, and the speed of its bans cannot keep up with the speed of production. There are similar situations in China, where illegal websites have directly opened a face-changing section. Basically, all the female celebrities you can think of, and even some beautiful Internet celebrities, are included.
Strictly speaking, since the emergence of open source projects such as Deepfake , AI is destined to be out of control. Relying on customized models, local deployment and other methods, users with certain resources can actually produce any content without restrictions. There is no technological gap.
In South Korea and other places, AI forged indecent content has even become a very serious social problem. Two ordinary students at Seoul University continuously stole 10,000 photos of female classmates and friends from July 2021 to April 2024, synthesized pornographic products with deep fake technology, and produced and disseminated about 1,700 illegal photos and videos, victimizing as many as 61 women. From January to August last year, Korean human rights organizations received online requests for help from 781 deep fake victims, 37% of whom were minors.
Speaking of minors, this is also a big problem. Child pornography is an absolute taboo worldwide, and anyone who touches it will die. Even in Europe and the United States, which are open to pornography, producing, possessing, and disseminating child pornography will result in imprisonment. Therefore, for those with perverted hobbies, resources have become extremely difficult to find, and AI has opened up a "treasure trove" for perverts.
Last October, a British man was convicted of 16 counts of child sexual abuse. Investigations showed that he used AI to convert normal photos of children into sexual abuse images. Over a period of 18 months, he sold such images online for a profit of about 5,000 pounds. He was also commissioned by pedophiles to create specific images using photos of children he had come into contact with in real life. Coincidentally, a court in Quebec, Canada, sentenced a 61-year-old man to eight years in prison because he used AI to create at least seven child pornographic composite videos, all of which were based on real people found on social media.
It is worth noting that in this Canadian case, the prosecution and the defense had a fierce confrontation in court. The defense lawyer believed that the ban on child pornography is to prevent children from being harmed and exploited, but if AI is used to generate content, no real children are harmed, so the sentence should be light or no sentence should be given. Although the judge did not adopt this view, it is undeniable that this view does represent the voice of some people.
As AI becomes more popular and develops, will similar views become more popular? Will people's moral bottom line become lower and lower? These are all questions worth thinking about.
05 Technology goes to sea and changes the world
The ancients said, "Food and sex are human nature." Sex is one of the most basic needs of human beings. When there is any high-tech in the world, it will always be used in the adult field first.
In 1845, humans first used photography technology, and soon cameras were used to photograph nude models; movies were invented in 1895, and the first color film was shot in 1896; at the end of the 19th century, humans began to use latex rubber on a large scale and industrially, and as a result, latex condoms were sold all over the world in the early 20th century. At the same time, latex dolls also became military supplies; later, it was the turn of the Internet and VR technology...
But if you look at it the other way around, sex is also the driving force of social progress. Perhaps it is because of the idea of tinkering with new technologies that humans have endless creativity and some scientific and technological achievements are quickly accepted by the public. How many adolescent children learn to surf the Internet in order to open indescribable websites? How many people buy VR glasses to try it out in order to feast their eyes on the VR area of P station?
Under this historical law, AI is absolutely not immune and will have to go into the sea sooner or later. What we should pay more attention to is how to impose constraints on society and ultimately achieve the goal of "don't be evil" in the process of development.
I personally feel that AI, on its way to the adult industry, is not only stirring up commercial waves, but also reflecting the human nature.
From ChatGPT to Grok3, from P station's smart tags to the "soul infusion" of silicone dolls, this dance between technology and desire has long surpassed the scope of tool iteration - it is reconstructing the most private emotional territory of human beings and tearing open the deep anxiety of civilized society.
As generative AI infiltrates our lives at a rate of 400 million users per week, what we are witnessing is not only a carnival of technological breakthroughs, but also an experimental change in society's attitude towards sexual desire and emotions.
Fire can both cook food and burn forests.
The collision between AI and lust will eventually prove that what really needs to be tamed is never technology, but human desire.
Now that we are standing at the critical point of the AI revolution, perhaps we should reread the revelation of "Frankenstein" - technological monsters have always been a reflection of human desires.
Future historians may comment on this era in this way: In the process of teaching AI to understand love, humans eventually learned how to avoid being backfired by algorithms and then love themselves.
This article comes from the WeChat public account "Cool Play Lab" , author: Cool Play Lab, published by 36Kr with authorization.
