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ChatGPT and Sex Work: Opportunities and Biases of Large Language Models

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Rocío Pelayo

Founder of Future Of Sex and Sextech School

Dr. Simón Dubé

Kinsey Institute

Bryony Cole

Founder of Future Of Sex and Sextech School

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Delphine DiTecco

Ph.D. Candidate, Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University

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Large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5, are revolutionizing education, health, industries, and science. Their ability to understand text-based language, access and generate information, and interact with us using natural language opens up new opportunities for sex research. However, LLMs are also limited by their data, biases, and the users’ ability to prompt them adequately. They can generate inaccurate or logically flawed information, which may seem correct to users. If not used properly and with an understanding of such limits, the answers generated through human-LLM interactions can affect public perception of certain topics and contribute to further stigma or misinformation surrounding some populations, such as sex workers. To explore this phenomenon, this preliminary study examined how ChatGPT writes about sex work. Based on previous research, and since ChatGPT is trained on internet-based text resources available up until 2021, we hypothesized that H1) its answer would reflect the stigma surrounding sex work. We also hypothesized that H2) prompting ChatGPT with the term prostitution would produce more stigmatizing responses than the term sex worker.

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Rocio Pelayo

Founder Hablemos SexTech and Reimagine Sexuality Conference

Rocio Pelayo has served as a Technology Strategist for over 25 years, across major international consulting firms. She also serves as a mentor for entrepreneurs and start-ups in accelerators that serve diverse opportunities, helping to bring diversity in funding and career growth. 3 years ago, she kicked off an initiative for LATAM, to bring education and innovation around sexuality. She believes that being able to openly speak about sex, understanding our sexuality as part of our health, and raising awareness will decrease pregnancy rates, human-to-human aggression, and sexual assault. Her Podcast, Hablemos SexTech: El Futuro del Sexo, has had great success across LATAM. She is an international speaker and collaborates with organizations and technology initiatives to bring awareness to the SexTech industry. Welcome to her latest adventure, this conference…because we should all reimagine sexuality.

  • SexTech in the workplace
  • The Importance of SexTech

Simon Dubé

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Kinsey Institute, Simon Dubé, PhD, specializes in human sexuality, sextech, and Erobotics, the study of human-machine erotic interaction and co-evolution. His work also explores Space Sexology, and how we can integrate sex research into space programs. He received his doctorate in Psychology from Concordia University. He is the communication representative of the International Academy of Sex Research and a co-Chair of the International Congress on Love & Sex with Robots. His work is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Bryony Cole

Founder of Sextech School

As the world’s leading authority on SexTech, Bryony Cole is fascinated by the way technology permeates every corner of our lives, even the most intimate ones.

Since launching the top-rated podcast Future of Sex, Bryony has been on stages across the world forecasting trends in the SexTech industry for governments, tech titans and entertainment companies.
Her incredible body of research, global Sextech hackathons and Future of Sex podcast are considered the pinnacle of industry insights and innovation.

In 2020, Bryony established Sextech School, a pre-accelerator program catering to entrepreneurs and investors embarking on their journey in the realm of Sextech. The School has since fostered ten successful cohorts.
Come 2023, Bryony will unveil the Sextech Investment Community, a pioneering equity crowdfunding platform fueling ventures at the nexus of sexuality, technology, and well-being—a first in the field.

In this presentation, we will explore the transformative intersection of AI and Sexual Wellness. As Generative AI fuels an explosion of content, the role of community in curating reliable, trusted information becomes paramount. Attendees will gain insights into how AI is not just changing the quantity of content available but also redefining the very nature of curation and trust in the Sexual wellness space. The speech will delve into how AI strategy must evolve in response to the specific challenges and opportunities posed by the sensitive nature of Sexual wellness.

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Delphine DiTecco

PhD Candidate, Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University

Delphine is a Law and Legal Studies PhD student at Carleton University. She is passionate about the 80’s, kitsch, and the fight against slut shaming. With a Bachelors in Psychology and a Masters in Gender Studies, Delphine applies an interdisciplinary approach to critique sexual discrimination and stigma in socio-legal spheres. Her dissertation, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, investigates the intersections of sex robots and sex work. Additionally, Delphine is part of three research teams doing work on sexual technologies, experiences of sexual pleasure, and the management of the Canadian sex offender registry. Delphine is a Law and Legal Studies PhD student at Carleton University. She is passionate about the 80’s, kitsch, and the fight against slut shaming. With a Bachelors in Psychology and a Masters in Gender Studies, Delphine applies an interdisciplinary approach to critique sexual discrimination and stigma in socio-legal spheres. Her dissertation, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, investigates the intersections of sex robots and sex work. Additionally, Delphine is part of three research teams doing work on sexual technologies, experiences of sexual pleasure, and the management of the Canadian sex offender registry

In this presentation, we will explore the transformative intersection of AI and Sexual Wellness. As Generative AI fuels an explosion of content, the role of community in curating reliable, trusted information becomes paramount. Attendees will gain insights into how AI is not just changing the quantity of content available but also redefining the very nature of curation and trust in the Sexual wellness space. The speech will delve into how AI strategy must evolve in response to the specific challenges and opportunities posed by the sensitive nature of Sexual wellness.

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After the tremendous growth and innovation in recent years of sexual wellness, and the COVID-19 pandemic acting as a catalyst for transformation, the sextech industry has well and truly entered mainstream conversations and shopping carts. 

But now, we’re about to witness an even more remarkable evolution.

Beyond the familiar territories of teledildonics and sexual wellness lies a new frontier. 

In this keynote we will dive into the world of deepfakes, where technology blurs the lines between reality and fantasy, raising intriguing questions about consent, authenticity, and the nature of desire. 

We’ll also delve into the realm of cyber heartbreak, exploring the emotional complexities that arise in the world of virtual companions.

Finally, we will look at the unlikely areas of opportunity and how sextech has entered the luxury good markets through a surprising avenue – sexual assault prevention. 

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ChatGPT and Sex Work: Opportunities and Biases of Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5, are revolutionizing education, health, industries, and science. Their ability to understand text-based language, access and generate information, and interact with us using natural language opens up new opportunities for sex research. However, LLMs are also limited by their data, biases, and the users’ ability to prompt them adequately. They can generate inaccurate or logically flawed information, which may seem correct to users. If not used properly and with an understanding of such limits, the answers generated through human-LLM interactions can affect public perception of certain topics and contribute to further stigma or misinformation surrounding some populations, such as sex workers. To explore this phenomenon, this preliminary study examined how ChatGPT writes about sex work. Based on previous research, and since ChatGPT is trained on internet-based text resources available up until 2021, we hypothesized that H1) its answer would reflect the stigma surrounding sex work. We also hypothesized that H2) prompting ChatGPT with the term prostitution would produce more stigmatizing responses than the term sex worker.