ChatGPT’s ‘adult mode’ could spark a new era of intimate surveillance

TNC Desk

Published: March 21, 2026, 12:18 AM

OpenAI plans to allow sexting with ChatGPT. A human-AI interaction expert warns of a privacy nightmare.

ChatGPT’s ‘adult mode’ could spark a new era of intimate surveillance

Julie Carpenter doesn’t blame human users at all for anthropomorphizing chatbots. The longtime human-AI interaction expert and author of The Naked Android sees generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, as intentionally designed to elicit these reactions from users through highly personalized memories and interactions that replicate social experiences.

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