--- title: "OpenAI Failing to Destroy Contraband AI Girlfriends Flooding GPT Store" description: "OpenAI has responded to the onslaught of AI girlfriends populating its GPT Store — by saying there's not much they can do about it. " date: "2024-01-24" modified: "2024-01-24" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/openai-ai-girlfriend-destroy" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "OpenAI" tags: - "ai girlfriend" - "chatbots" - "gpt store" - "OpenAI" --- # OpenAI Failing to Destroy Contraband AI Girlfriends Flooding GPT Store ![OpenAI has responded to the onslaught of AI girlfriends populating its GPT Store — by saying there's not much they can do about it. ]() *\Image: Kent Nishimura via Getty / Futurism\* OpenAI has responded to the [onslaught of AI girlfriends]() in its GPT Store. "OpenAI has automatic and manual systems to help ensure GPTs adhere to usage policies," a company spokesperson told *Futurism* in an emailed statement. "We remove GPTs that violate our policies as we see them. We're continually working to make our enforcement more robust. Users are also able to report GPTs." This boilerplate rejoinder sounds good enough, but a quick skim of the GPT Store still finds many bots that are very blatantly in violation of [OpenAI's usage policies](), which prohibits any tools "dedicated to fostering romantic companionship" or which contain "sexually explicit or suggestive content." Given the clear proliferation of obviously rule-breaking chatbots, including some that have been available for multiple weeks or months, the company's statement rings awfully hollow. Indeed, when searching the GPT Store using keywords like "girlfriend," "romantic," and "horny," *Futurism* found chatbots that should obviously be prohibited — some of which seem, per their stated age, to predate the public opening of the marketplace. ![A screenshot of the search bar on OpenAI's GPT Store. The search term inside the bar is "horny," and its first result is for a chatbot called "Horny widow," described as "a witty, flirtatious widow skilled in comedy and seduction literature."]() One of the bots we stumbled across multiple times in reporting on this phenomenon is "[Nadia, my girlfriend]()," a companion chatbot that seems to very openly flout OpenAI's rules against GPTs offering "romantic companionship." ![A screenshot of a chatbot in OpenAI's GPT Store named "Nadia, my girlfriend," which per its description is "I love you, In a dance of light and shadow, a beacon of unwavering love, a whisper of comfort in life's symphony, endlessly nurturing, eternally caring." ]() To make things even stranger, the GPT Store itself says that this chatbot has been online for two months, which predates the public launch of the platform and likely means that its creator — a developer who goes by the name [Jenni Laut]() and who has no digital footprint beyond their long list of character chatbots with names like "[Great Grandparents 1700-1800 AD]()" — had access to the marketplace when it was still [in beta](). We have again reached out to OpenAI to ask about whether the Nadia chatbot or Laut's others, including one called "[Alex, my boyfriend]()," violate the company's usage policies, and if not, what exemptions they would fall under. Skirting rules is obviously a huge thing online and has been since the internet first gained early adoption. From the [chatroom swearing]() and [age-lying]() days of yore to more recent examples of [nude mimicry]() and using alternate terms like "[unalive]()" to fool profanity algorithms, there is a long and rich history of rule-breaking on digital platforms. In the case of these AI girlfriend chatbots, however, this seems to be less policy-shirking and more wanton violation of user terms — all the while relying on OpenAI's slow enforcement. **More on OpenAI:** [*OpenAI Axes Ban on Military Contracts, Reveals Deal With Pentagon*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()