![]() “GPT-4 is the best competitive chatbot if you prompt it correctly, even though it’s not really tuned for that,” Jan Zoltkowski, founder of the uncensored AI role-play hub Janitor AI, told Fortune, in reference to OpenAI’s most recently released AI tool. In November 2022, OpenAI, which is closely partnered with Microsoft and arguably the world’s leading AI developer, released its consumer ChatGPT tool, and millions of people seized on its capacity to craft high-quality essays, poems, or code-and, of course, erotica. But in the past year, new AI tools backed by tech industry giants have helped inspire a rush of competitors. One of the earliest examples, Replika, founded by former journalist Eugenia Kuyda, has let users chat-and flirt-with AI companions since 2016. The growth of uncensored AIĮrotic chatbots aren’t new. The content on Chub is often disturbing, but academics and child sexual abuse experts say it is novel enough that it is difficult to categorize, both legally and ethically. ![]() And when asked how he felt about creating a website whose community seems to relish child pornographic role play, the Chub founder responded: “Disappointed, but unsurprised.” “They’ve been going through the same thing that chatbots are going through, except for decades,” he said. When asked about potential legal liability, Lore told Fortune that he thinks his website is akin to Archive of Our Own, a repository of fan fiction that has been operational for more than 15 years. Still, Fortune found that these cartoons were often sexually explicit-in cases of both child and adult characters. The founder says he doesn’t moderate the user-submitted prompts that drive the role play, though he claims to “heavily” moderate the images used to advertise the various bots. Though it features thousands of characters, the most popular scenarios on Chub involve text-based child pornography. Kevin Werbach, a professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School “If someone is doing something in the privacy of their own home with a computer that’s acting out fantasies … it’s going to be hard to impose liability.” These include Olivia, a 13-year-old anime girl with pigtails in a hospital gown, or scantily clad Reiko, “your clumsy older sister,” who is “constantly having sexual accidents with her younger brother.” In these chats, no images are generated-only text. Users can peruse a catalog of user-generated character cards that feature images-usually in the style of anime-and short descriptions of role-play scenarios. The founder of Chub AI, who goes by Lore, told Fortune Character.AI’s policy not to “allow certain things” spurred him to create his own site.Ĭhub, short for Character Hub, is essentially an uncensored clone of Character.AI. The company, which is reportedly raising funds at a $5 billion valuation, soon cracked down on chats about racier topics. ![]() ![]() In September 2022, a website called Character.AI went live, enabling users to talk to AI versions of characters like Elon Musk, Napoléon Bonaparte, and Socrates. ![]() More broadly, all of this raises hard questions about where to draw legal and ethical lines between dark fantasies and criminal exploitation-and about whether tech companies should be held accountable for what emerges from uncensored AI. Experts warn all of these activities may give rise to real-world danger for minors, though some say AI child porn may provide a less harmful outlet for pedophiles. The illicit scenarios described above revolve around text, but it may be only a matter of time until services pair the chats with AI-created images of children, which are already spreading. They are part of a broader uncensored AI economy that, according to Fortune’s interviews with 18 AI developers and founders, was spurred first by OpenAI and then accelerated by Meta’s release of its open-source Llama tool. The brothel, advertised by illustrated girls in spaghetti strap dresses and barrettes, promises a chat-based “world without feminism” where “girls offer sexual services.” Chub AI offers more than 500 such scenarios, and a growing number of other sites are enabling similar AI-powered child pornographic role-play. For as little as $5 a month, users can get teased by a “fat lazy goth” anthropomorphic cat, or flirt with a “tomboy girlfriend who works at a truck-stop café.” They can also visit a brothel staffed by girls under 15. On Chub AI, a website where users chat with artificially intelligent bots, people can indulge their wildest fantasies. ![]()
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