Sam Altman of OpenAI has expressed conflicted feelings about AI erotica (i.e., porn). When asked on a podcast in August 2025 if there were decisions he had made that were “best for the world, but not best for winning,” Altman replied: “We haven’t put a sex bot avatar in ChatGPT yet.” Altman indicated erotica would boost growth and revenue, but said it wouldn’t align with his company’s long-term incentive of serving users. “I’m proud of the company and how little we get distracted by that,” Altman said. “But sometimes we do get tempted.” But later in 2025, Altman posted that “We [OpenAI] “aren’t the elected moral police of the world,” “In the same way that society differentiates other appropriate boundaries (R-rated movies, for example) we want to do a similar thing here.”

Excerpt from Sam Schechner et al., OpenAI’s Bid to Allow X-Rated Talk Is Freaking Out Its Own Advisers, WSJ,  Mar. 15, 2026

On March 23, 205, it was announced that OpenAI has hired Meta Platform’s  advertising executive Dave Dugan to lead its global ad sales efforts, marking a further step in the company’s push to build out new revenue streams around its artificial intelligence products. Dugan brings experience working with large global brands at Meta, which generated nearly $200 billion in advertising revenue in 2025. (Yahoo Finance).