I do n't know if you remember when you first heard about ChatGPT back in 2022 when it first
came out and kind of took the world by storm.
How quickly did you think, oh, this is going to be used for sex?
Not quickly enough.
I mean, obviously, I should have thought that because all tech eventually or almost immediately is used for sex.
My colleague Sam Schechner covers the sex industry.
Or, sorry, I mean the tech industry.
Sex and tech actually have gone together for quite a while.
And when you look at new technologies, almost one of the first things people do with it is create porn.
That's true with the first cameras.
Some of the first things people did.
Back in the 1800s was take pictures of naked people.
And that's been true with other tech innovations along the way.
The rise of personal phones.
You have phone sex lines.
You have video and television.
And you have porn movies.
And early growth in the internet.
Certainly was driven in part by pornography, and it remains a huge business.
For the hottest technology these days, artificial intelligence, it's the same story.