The Month in Sex Tech March 2026

A round-up of the five most important sex tech stories from last month.

OpenAI Shelve “Adult Mode” Indefinitely

In a move that surprised nobody, OpenAI finally (almost) admitted that we’re never going to get ChatGPT porn. After repeated delays and then a suggestion that “adult mode” would be merely “smutty” and restricted to chat rather than image and video generation, OpenAI at last put us out of our misery by confirming that the project had been shelved indefinitely. There had been a strong backlash from OpenAI’s own ethics panel, with one member fearing that adult mode could become a “sexy suicide coach”. In any case, it seems Sam Altman and his colleagues decided that the legal risks were too great, especially in the light of Elon Musk’s xAI facing multiple million dollar lawsuits and even the threat of being banned by certain countries, all because of a few cases of celebrity bikini pics and sexual teen pics generated by Grok.

What does it mean for the adult AI industry? With xAI and Grok themselves being forced to impose greater guardrails and tone down their own “spicy” mode, it looks like the market for true NSFW AI will be largely left to independent players. As a “futurist” talking to Axios explained:

It will open up the market to less corporatized, more entrepreneurial players, and you’ll get the equivalent of an OnlyFans but in the AI space,” Fellows says, adding that she could see a future where specialized companies build out AI companions’ capabilities or create more hyper-realistic sex-tech devices through augmented reality.

My fear is that AGI and then ASI, and perhaps the “Singularity”, will almost certainly occur first in one of the leading AI companies – be it OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, or xAI. If so, it looks like the Singularity may be puritan.

Rumors of A-list Actor Dating an AI Girlfriend

It is widely believed that the gradual “coming out” of celebrities and influential figures played a key role in mainstream acceptance of homosexuality in the West, a process that accelerated only after decriminalization. Today, digisexuality—particularly relationships with AI companions or AI girlfriends—appears to be at a comparable early stage of public perception, but in a more hostile climate: instead of decriminalization, it faces growing regulatory hysteria and even initial legislative efforts to ban such technologies. As a result, digisexuals may need to come out of the closet even more urgently than homosexuals did in the 1960s, though doing so could carry greater personal risk. Online rumors are now swirling that a Hollywood actor, possibly A-list or near it, is openly in a relationship with an AI companion he takes everywhere and has defended to skeptical friends by saying they’re not ready for the future. The speculation exploded after the claim was made on the “I Need You Guys” podcast, with many immediately pointing to Scrubs star Zach Braff, who publicly denied it on Instagram Stories, joking that the story may have stemmed from an upcoming Scrubs episode. Whether the rumor is true, a marketing stunt, or involves someone else entirely, it signals that celebrity gossip about AI girlfriends is likely only beginning—and such visibility may eventually help pave the way for broader social acceptance.

Read more: https://immersiveporn.com/hollywood-celebrity-a-lister-dating-ai-girlfiend-digisexual/

AI Allure Introduce Live Video Chat with Interactive Gesture Recognition

AI Allure, a fast-improving NSFW AI companion site, has introduced several groundbreaking features last month, most notably real-time video chat with AI companions that can “see” users and respond to their gestures—including waves, smiles, kisses, and even laughs. This marks what appears to be the first implementation of vision-enabled AI companions in the adult AI space, building on earlier concepts of 3D interactive desktop companions. Additional updates include a simple touch-and-swipe “undress” function for AI-generated videos, persistent memory across sessions, access to real-time news for informed conversations, and the ability for companions to “watch” and understand what’s happening on the user’s screen. These advancements highlight the rapid progress in NSFW AI video and chat technology, moving from crude animations just a few years ago to immersive, responsive live interactions in 2026—potentially unsettling traditional webcam models.” target=”_blank”>AI Allure, a fast-evolving NSFW AI platform, introduced several groundbreaking features last month, most notably real-time video chat with AI companions that can “see” users and respond to their gestures—including waves, smiles, kisses, and even laughs. This marks what appears to be the first implementation of vision-enabled AI companions in the adult AI space, building on earlier concepts of 3D interactive desktop companions. Additional updates include a simple touch-and-swipe “undress” function for AI-generated videos, persistent memory across sessions, access to real-time news for informed conversations, and the ability for companions to “watch” and understand what’s happening on the user’s screen. These advancements highlight the rapid progress in NSFW AI video and chat technology, moving from crude animations just a few years ago to immersive, responsive live interactions in 2026—potentially unsettling traditional webcam models.

Study Finds Men Already Prefer AI Nudes to Real Nude Pics

A study conducted in the Czech Republic that questioned 649 heterosexual adults (the majority of them men) found that AI-generated nudes were found to be both more aesthetically pleasing AND sexually stimulating than nude pictures of real women. As is often rightly said, “this is the worst that AI will ever get”, and that applies too to AI-generated nudes. The future might be female, but it could be an AI female.

VirtualReal Launch POV Gay Site

The oldest adult VR studio VirtualReal launched “POV GAY”, a 2D version of VirtualRealGay. It makes perfect financial sense for the studio as it enables them to market their content to a much wider audience at very little extra cost (as it has already been filmed for VirtualRealGay). It’s surprising other studios aren’t doing this, although TMWVRnet have a TMW POV site consisting of 2D versions of their VR scenes. POV works especially well on the new generation of AR glasses, particularly given these glasses can now often render 2D content into 3D in realtime.