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.

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Walmart’s announcement of a new partnership with OpenAI signaled a significant change in how people shop online, allowing customers to buy its products directly within ChatGPT. According to the biggest retailer in the world,

OpenAI's hugely popular chatbot fields a staggering number of queries from users every day.

Around 1953, the philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin developed the concept of “speech genres”: the notion that people use language differently depending on the context. Speech is shaped, importantly, not only by the speaker but also by their addressee: We talk differently with our parents than we do with the mailman.

In a pivot towards social features, OpenAI might soon bring direct messaging and group chat features to the ChatGPT app on Android.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a major policy change, confirming ChatGPT will soon allow erotica content for age-verified adult users

Altman said that OpenAI will launch an adult-only version of ChatGPT at the end of the year, and specifically made sure to mention that it will allow erotica for "verified" users. Elon Musk, as part of his company, xAi, previously launched his own erotica chatbot companion named "Ani" this summer.