(NewsNation) — ChatGPT, the most popular AI chatbot in the world, is expanding into pornographic territory starting later this year.

The move, reminiscent of Grok recently introducing two sexually explicit chatbots, is likely to intensify pressure on lawmakers to introduce tighter restrictions on chatbot companions.

AI intimacy expert Bryony Cole and host of "The Future of Sex" podcast tells NewsNation the "toothpaste is out of the tube," however.

"It mimics texting with a friend or a boyfriend or a girlfriend. It's very much simulating the intimacy that we experience with our partners through text, but the difference is, it's synthetic," Cole said on "Elizabeth Vargas Reports."

Cole expects that synthetic, pornographic images, videos and video calls will soon be pervasive in the world

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