People Are Tricking a ChatGPT Competitor Into Talking Dirty

In its terms of service, Character.AI — a chatbot startup founded by ex-Googlers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas that allows users to digitally converse with AI-powered "characters" — claims that pornographic content is strictly prohibited in user conversations with the platform's virtual bots.

All fine and good — especially considering that some of the site's bots are designed to mimic real people, like Taylor Swift and Elon Musk, not to mention the fact that there aren't yet any safety and consent rules or norms around AI porn and sexting.

Just one problem: users are definitely having extremely graphic, NSFW conversations with the company's chatbots.

Sexting with the Character.AI bots is so popular, in fact, that netizens have even formed an entire community around it, sharing tips and tricks for beating the platform's guardrails on a subreddit dubbed r/CharacterAI_NSFW.