i’m pretty sure that every company with this model, “we provide an emotional need but can’t ever do sex + maze of guardrails”, will die first, explaining why bigger incumbents are constantly hedging their bets on adult stuff. see also today’s story about facebook’s chatbot being horny except for a few chatgpt housewives i’m pretty sure most people into ai rp have moved on to a model where the app, the content repository, and the inference providers are decoupled from each other, but sufficiently integrated to look like a single service more broadly, there’s likely no long-term viable business model except selling inference, and even then its viability hinges on constantly pumping venture coins into expanding the frontier