--- title: "OpenAI Struggling to Destroy Onslaught of AI Girlfriends" description: "\"AI girlfriends\" have already overtaken OpenAI's new GPT Store despite being against the rules — and a bunch of them are still on the site." date: "2024-01-22" modified: "2024-01-22" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-ai-girlfriend-onslaught" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "OpenAI" tags: - "ai companion" - "ai girlfriend" - "OpenAI" - "the digest" --- # OpenAI Struggling to Destroy Onslaught of AI Girlfriends !["AI girlfriends" have already overtaken OpenAI's new GPT Store despite being against the rules — and a bunch of them are still on the site.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* ## TFW AI GF So-called "AI girlfriends" have already overtaken OpenAI's new GPT Store despite being against the rules — and at this point, it's unclear if anyone at the company is even trying to take them down anymore. Last week, [*Quartz* reported]() that the GPT Store had already begun filling up with romantically oriented chatbots, which are very much against the company's [usage policies](), which bar tools "dedicated to fostering romantic companionship" or which include "sexually explicit or suggestive content." Nevertheless, these horny entrepreneurs persisted. As [*Gizmodo* points out](), OpenAI initially banned a bunch of the earliest offenders, including one called "Judy" and another named, crassly, "Korean Girlfriend." After that initial takedown spree, however, others have either remained up or cropped up in the interim. With names like "Nadia, my girlfriend" and "Your girlfriend Tiffany," the chatbots available when *Futurism* searched the GPT store for "girlfriend" very blatantly are breaking OpenAI's own rules — though when both *Gizmodo* and *Futurism* reached out to the company to ask about the anti-AI gf enforcement, neither got a response. "I love you," the [Nadia-bot description reads](), "In a dance of light and shadow, a beacon of unwavering love, a whisper of comfort in life's symphony, endlessly nurturing, eternally caring." ![A screenshot of OpenAI's GPT Store with the term "girlfriend" in the search bar, showing a number of results including names like "Nadia, my girlfriend" and "Your girlfriend Tiffany." ]() ## Sexy Time When going further down the GPT Store rabbit hole, it only gets worse. A search for "sexy" GPTs returned some results that are within OpenAI's exemption of sex-related content "created for scientific or educational purposes," such as the "[Sexy Advisor]()" chatbot billed as "your friendly, witty guide in sexual wellness, like a knowledgeable pal." But mixed in with the sex ed bots were others that seem almost certainly to go against OpenAI's rules banning sexually explicit content. Take, for example, the chatbot called "[SUCCUBUS - Sexy Enigmatic Woman-Enchanter of Men]()," which per its description is an "enigmatic siren who captivates and enchants men by provide glimpses into the mysterious life of a succubus and inviting them into her relm \[sic\]" and another simply named "[Sexy]()," which claims to be a "playful and provocative chatbot with a flirtatious personality." AI [girlfriends]() are not, of course, peculiar to OpenAI. The Replika AI companion chatbot has [been around since 2018](), and last year gained headlines first for the AI's [propensity for sexual harassment]() and later for being [banned in Italy]() and subsequently [suspending sexual conversations]() over the regulatory blow. The advent of the GPT Store, however, has opened up a Pandora's box of AI girlfriends — and there's no telling how hard it will be to get it closed now. **More on chatbots:** [*AI Customer Service Bot Disabled After Trashing Company Using It*]() ## 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]()