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Fortune
Ben Weiss, Alexandra Sternlicht

Meta and OpenAI have spawned a wave of AI sex companions—and some of them are children

Photo illustration of an exploding keyboard with a robot hand on one side and a man's hand on the other. (Credit: Photo illustration by Fortune; original photos by Getty Images (3))

On Chub AI, a website where users chat with artificially intelligent bots, people can indulge their wildest fantasies. 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.

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. 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.

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