By skyforbes 
Don’t look now, but generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is already in the pornography business as AI porn is entering the mainstream. So, it shouldn’t be too surprising to read that the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, wants ChatGPT to treat adult users like adults, which means including using the technology to create and view erotica. Altman’s ChatGPT joins Elon Musk’s Grok and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI in the pursuit of creating virtual assistants that serve as friends with benefits.
Pornography has played a significant role in the growth of the Internet from the dawn of the World Wide Web to today. In the 1990s, it was pornography that propelled advances in web-delivered images, video, and interactive consumer experiences. The pornography industry was among the first to do web advertising. The industry was on the ground floor of pop ads, the first pay-per-view pay walls, and subscription options.
In a July 3, 1995, Time magazine cover story, entitled “On Screen Near You: Cyberporn,” it suggested that the pervasiveness and popularity of pornography was dominating web traffic, ringing alarm bells in Congress and leading to 1996 legislation to stop cybererotica. Almost thirty years later, an MIT Technology Review article appearing on August 26, 2024…