At an adult industry conference in Prague last month, delegates noted a sharp increase in sites offering users the chance to form AI relationships. At an adult industry conference in Prague last month, delegates noted a sharp increase in sites offering users the chance to form AI relationships. 'Obedient, yielding and happy to follow': the troubling rise of AI girlfriends E leanor, 24, is a Polish historian and lecturer at a university in Warsaw; Isabelle, 25, is a detective serving with the NYPD; Brooke, 39, is an American housewife who enjoys an opulent Miami lifestyle financed by her frequently absent husband. All three women will flirt and chat and send nude photographs and explicit videos via one of a soaring number of new adult dating websites that offer an increasingly realistic selection of AI girlfriends for subscribers willing to pay a monthly fee. At the TES adult industry conference in Prague last month, delegates noted a sharp increase in new websites offering users the chance to form relationships with AI-generated girlfriends, who will remove their clothes in exchange for tokens purchased by bank transfer.

In All The President's Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's account of how they broke the Watergate scandal that toppled President Richard Nixon, the reporters describe meeting their key informant in an underground car park near a bridge over the Potomac River in Washington, DC. Seeking an alias that summed up how far the mole was buried in the heart of Nixon's administration, their thoughts turned to a notorious pornographic movie which was making national headlines at the time: Deep Throat. Today, almost half a century after Watergate, politics and porn are combining once again to produce toxic scandal that could bring down a president. The difference is that this time the scoops aren't true....