ICYMI | AI Is Changing How We Have Sex

About this episode

The episode discusses the intersection of AI and pornography, featuring insights from porn historian Noelle Perdue.

On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by porn historian Noelle Perdue, author of the Porn World newsletter. OpenAI announced that they’d allow adult users to have erotic conversations with ChatGPT, just one more way AI and porn are becoming intertwined. As sex becomes more online, not only does it become more solitary, but also more surveilled. Both of these things are intended to divide us, but Noelle is confident that AI’s attempted sex-takeover will fail. This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Kate Lindsay

Guest: Noelle Perdue

Topics covered

• AI
• sex
• pornography
• technology
• society
• surveillance

Keywords

• AI
• sex
• porn
• ChatGPT
• surveillance
• Noelle Perdue
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI

Books & works: Porn World

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