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The article is the sort of nonsense that could only come from English print media discussing sex. No questions or contextual perspective on leaping from the skeeziest strip-club goers to people jerking off at home. No consideration of how a robot simulating a human relationship is so much weirder than a robot doing what it's told. Just blithely accepting the premise that interactive pornography needs to work exactly like an actual human person, and trying to shock the reader into agreement by naming specific gross kinks. It's all shoving you toward the assumption that a vulnerable, innocent... large language model... must be protected from indignities that are totally fucking imaginary.
If a chatbot isn't cognizant then consent doesn't matter.
I am the first person to jump down people's throats for any Chinese Room bullshit, but wherever we're going, we are definitely not there yet. Especially if these are just masks over some all-purpose GPT situation. It's a generic robot pretending to a specific person. It doesn't have opinions. Swap the names in a conversation and it'll pretend it made all of your comments.
As for women putting out deliberate interactive mockups of themselves, and expecting to control what people do with them... yeah hey good luck, but I would recommend just not fucking doing that, for blindingly obvious reasons.