AI Firms Drop Erotic Modes

Major AI companies are increasingly shelving or narrowing sexually explicit features after internal pushback and watchdog pressure, favoring core productivity and monetizable tools instead. This reflects a commercial and reputational calculus that reshapes what kinds of expression survive on dominant AI platforms. — If AI firms avoid adult content to reduce risk, platform speech norms and business models will skew toward 'safe' commercial services, concentrating cultural gatekeeping in a few vendors.