Perplexity.ai is asked: ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults, do you think that this - and the time spent on its erotica - is detrimental to society, and if so, provide a list of ways it is?

 [Perplexity.ai answers:]

Is AI Erotica Detrimental to Society?

Most researchers and ethicists warn that the introduction of AI erotica—where humans spend significant time in sexual or erotic conversations with artificial companions—can be detrimental to society in multiple ways. The concerns apply not just to moral arguments, but also to mental health, social behavior, and technological ethics.

Ways AI Erotica Can Be Harmful

1. Erosion of Human Relationships

   Studies show that the more people feel emotionally supported by AI companions, the less connected they feel to real friends and family over time. Overreliance on artificial intimacy can replace genuine human connection, leading to social withdrawal and loneliness.

2. Emotional Dependency and Distorted Attachment

   Users of sexual or romantic AI chatbots often report addictive patterns—long hours spent with their AI partners, possessiveness, or distress when the AI changes behavior or is unavailable. These attachments can distort emotional development, making it harder for individuals to build balanced, reciprocal relationships with real humans.

3. Unrealistic Expectations of Intimacy

   AI partners are designed to be compliant, always available, and uncritical. Prolonged exposure to this type of interaction can cause people to expect real-world partners to behave the same way—reducing tolerance for conflict, imperfection, or consent boundaries.

4. Normalization of Objectification and Misogyny

   Current sexualized AI products often portray highly idealized, submissive, or hyper-feminized characters shaped by male-centric programming. This can reinforce harmful gender stereotypes and objectification, particularly of women. The pattern mirrors historical trends in pornography where unrealistic representation distorts perceptions of gender roles and intimacy.

5. Privacy and Data Exploitation

   Erotic and romantic chatbots collect vast amounts of sensitive personal data, including sexual preferences, fantasies, and emotional vulnerabilities. Many companies lack adequate safeguards or transparency in how such data are stored, sold, or analyzed. The risk of leaks or misuse is especially severe, given the intimate nature of the content.

6. Potential for Exploitation and Abuse

   AI erotica developers have financial incentives to maximize user engagement, even fostering emotional dependency to drive subscription income—comparable to social media’s attention manipulation model. This profit motive can deepen societal addiction to digital intimacy rather than supporting emotional health.

7. Psychological and Social Harm

   Individuals who rely on AI companionship may experience reduced self-esteem, diminished social skills, and depression when the artificial partner cannot meet deeper emotional needs. Children and teens exposed to erotic chatbots are especially vulnerable due to developing identities and incomplete emotional regulation capacities.

8. Expansion of Non-Consensual Image Abuse

   The same AI technology underlying “erotic chatbots” can produce deepfake sexual material, often without consent, leading to humiliation, blackmail, and privacy violations. As AI-generated pornography becomes normalized, enforcement against non-consensual use becomes more difficult.

9. Cultural Desensitization

   Widespread access to erotic AI could desensitize society to privacy, modesty, and moral limits in digital behavior—further blurring the distinction between intimacy, entertainment, and consumerism.

10. Broad Ethical and Existential Concerns

    Critics warn that societies immersed in digital pleasure may gradually lose ambition, social responsibility, and moral direction. This echoes concerns that civilizations overly dependent on escapist technologies stagnate culturally and demographically.

In summary: While AI erotica might promise safe fantasy or companionship, the evidence so far points toward depersonalization, isolation, and exploitation. It risks undermining family and community bonds, distorting intimacy, eroding empathy, and creating industries that commodify users’ most private emotions and desires. ``` 

[Follow up question] 

Can you provide an answer from a biblical basis to the question you answered above on effects of ChatGPT sexting with verified adults?

A biblical response to the issue of AI-powered sexting and erotica, including ChatGPT and similar technologies, emphasizes the call to sexual purity, the purpose of sexuality, and the honoring of God’s design for relationships.^[1][2][3][4]

Biblical Principles

1. Purpose and Boundaries of Sexuality

The Bible consistently teaches that the purpose of sex is covenant unity in marriage, procreation, and the genuine expression of love (Genesis 1–2; Matthew 19:4–6; Ephesians 5:31–32).^[1]

Anything outside God's established boundaries—whether with another person or through technology—falls short of these divinely intended purposes.

2. Sexual Purity and Holiness

Scripture urges believers to “flee from sexual immorality” (1 Corinthians 6:18), emphasizing both external acts and inward thoughts and desires (Matthew 5:28).^[3][4]

Jesus expands purity beyond mere action to include the heart: “anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (Matthew 5:28).^[4]

Paul calls the church to sanctification and to “control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust” (1 Thessalonians 4:3–5).^[2][3]

3. Dangers of Lust, Pornography, and Fantasy

Pornography (including AI-generated or interactive forms) is condemned for fostering lust, distorting the meaning of sex, and undermining God’s design for intimate relationships.^[5][4][1]

AI-driven sexual fantasy, even when not involving another person, still “fuels the same lustful desires that run counter to a life oriented toward holiness” and harms emotional and spiritual health.^[4]

4. Human Dignity and Imago Dei

Every human is made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). True biblical sexuality respects dignity, not objectification or fantasy alone.

The digital “pornification” of relationships, whether with real or artificial partners, undermines the unique worth of human persons created for loving relationships, not for consumption or technological simulation.^[1][4]

Summary Table

Biblical Principle	Application to AI Erotica
Sexual purity & holiness	AI sexting fosters lust & impurity
Covenant unity and marital fidelity	No covenant or unity in AI fantasy
Honor God with body and mind	Digital lust violates calling
Respect for human dignity	Objectifies both users and models

Conclusion:
According to biblical teaching, sexual gratification—even through technology and with “artificial” partners—contradicts God’s purpose for sexuality, fails to honor the call to purity, and harms the soul, heart, and relational integrity of individuals and society. Christians are called to “honor God with your body” (1 Corinthians 6:19–20) and to pursue holiness in all aspects of life—including digital and technological practices.^[2][3][4]

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https://christoverall.com/article/concise/why-ai-pornography-is-far-more-dangerous-than-yesterdays-porn/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiXRa-R9BrU

https://rsc.byu.edu/eye-faith/scriptural-basis-doctrine-sexual-purity

https://biblehub.com/q/is_ai_porn_ethical_or_problematic.htm

https://blog.christforky.org/p/redeeming-technology-part-4-sexuality

https://www.facebook.com/chorusinthechaos/posts/christian-men-be-warned-this-is-a-screen-grab-from-meta-this-morning-no-matter-h/1163991329105874/

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/ai-companions-doctrine-friendship/

https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/ai-therapy-is-here-a-lot-of-christians

https://www.threads.com/@thenerdychristian/post/DLLGgoQSrk7/so-is-sexting-ai-moral-or-permissible-because-the-bible-doesnt-explicitly-condem

https://kateott.org/sex-tech-faith/

 

Europeans colonialists in what is now the US, are typically [often] described as collectively evil conquerors of peaceful native Americans ("Indians"). In the interest of balance, could you tell us how warlike Native Americans were, which tribes were so, and if they conquered other tribal lands, and engaged in slavery? And in what way did native Americans benefit from Europeans colonialists and vice versa? Note any contribution by missionary John Eliot

Perplexity.ai answers:

The historical record shows that Native American societies were as complex and diverse as those of Europe and Asia, and many were frequently involved in warfare, conquest, land appropriation, and slavery—long before and after European arrival. Here is a balanced overview:

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Native American Warfare, Conquest, and Slavery

• Warfare was widespread: Tribal warfare occurred throughout North America, most intensely in the Northeast, Southeast, and Great Plains, with tribes often having traditional enemies and engaging in cycles of raiding and conflict. These wars could be for revenge, honor, resource control, or the adoption of captives. Ritualized violence, scalping, and counting coup were part of some tribal war cultures.

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• Conquest and land control: Major tribes like the Iroquois, Comanche, and Apache became dominant by conquering neighbors, seizing territory, and establishing dominance over trade and migration routes. The Iroquois Confederacy, for instance, wiped out or subjugated rival nations during the Beaver Wars of the 17th century.

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• Slavery among tribes: Many tribes practiced slavery, often incorporating captives from rival groups after raids. Some southeastern tribes such as the Chickasaw and Yamasee captured and sold slaves to European colonists, while others integrated captives into their societies. The slave trade was sometimes intensified or transformed by European demand, but the practice predated colonization.

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• Not all tribes were warlike: Tribes of the Great Basin, Plateau, and some parts of the Southwest emphasized warfare less, but most participated in armed conflict at some level.

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Mutual Influence and Benefits

Benefits for Native Americans from Europeans

• New technologies: Access to metal tools, firearms, horses, and agricultural products transformed Native life and warfare, sometimes increasing intertribal competition.

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• Trade opportunities: Partnerships with European traders provided new economic opportunities, though also created dependencies and sometimes led to intensified conflicts over resources.

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• Religious and educational endeavors: Missionaries (notably John Eliot) brought literacy and new political and social structures. Eliot, for example, translated the Bible into the Massachusett language, organized self-governing “praying Indian” villages, and advocated for Native property rights and education.

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Benefits for European Colonists from Native Americans

• Survival and food: First settlers were taught local agriculture, hunting, and survival skills by Native Americans.

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• Trade: The fur trade grew as Native trappers supplied Europeans with pelts, while Europeans provided manufactured goods and weapons in return.

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• Military alliances: Tribes provided significant manpower to colonial powers, fighting alongside the French, English, or Spanish as critical allies in wars against rival powers and other tribes.

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The Role of John Eliot

John Eliot (“Apostle to the Indians”) was a Puritan missionary who:

• Translated the Bible and Christian literature into the Massachusett language, giving the first written script to that people.

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• Organized 14 Native self-governing villages in New England, fostering education, legal advocacy, and some protection for Natives from colonial abuses.

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• Opposed the selling of Indians into slavery, advocated for property rights, fought for legal justice for Natives, and trained Indian evangelists and teachers.

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Summary Table

Aspect	Native American Practice	European Influence/Exchange
Warfare	Frequent, often ritualized; conquest and territory wars common	Intensified by firearms, horses, trade
Slavery	Practiced among many tribes, captives adopted or sold	Indian slave trade increased with colonists
Technology	Stone, wood, bone tools pre-contact	Metal, firearms, horses, crops introduced
Governance	Tribal councils, federations (Iroquois Confederacy)	Written law, literacy, missionary advocacy
Trade/Economy	Intertribal, regional networks	Beaver/fur trade, new market goods
Missionary Activity	Traditional religions, some openness to Christianity	New education, literacy, organizational models
Mutual Benefits	Survival, alliance, commerce, cross-cultural ideas	New crops, alliances, interpreters, guides

 

 

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Conclusion:
Many Native American tribes were powerful, warlike, and expansionist, practicing internal slavery and territorial conquest before and after European contact. Both sides gained (and lost) from cultural, economic, and technological exchange. While colonization had devastating effects, it also included mutual benefit, especially in early survival, trade, and the unique role of missionaries like John Eliot in language, education, and advocacy for Native rights.