Open AI’s adult mode will reportedly be smutty, not pornographic | The Verge
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Open AI’s adult mode will reportedly be smutty, not pornographic
The feature was delayed, reportedly due to internal concerns surrounding moderation and safeguarding children.
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Open AI’s delayed “adult mode” for Chat GPT is expected to support saucy text conversations at launch, but not the chatbot’s ability to generate images, voice, or video. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, an unnamed Open AI spokesperson described content that will be provided by the upcoming feature as smut rather than pornography, allowing Chat GPT users to generate textual chats with adult themes.
The feature was initially announced in October, with Open AI CEO Sam Altman claiming that the company had managed to mitigate enough of the “serious mental health issues“ with its AI model to relax safety restrictions and introduce “erotica for verified adults.” Chat GPT’s adult mode was expected to launch sometime this quarter, but Open AI said earlier this month that it was delaying the rollout to focus on higher-priority tasks. A new release timeline has yet to be announced.
The delay was also due to internal concerns and technical challenges around safeguards for the feature, according to The Wall Street Journal’s reporting. A council of advisers selected by Open AI warned the company in January that Chat GPT’s adult mode may be accessible to children and foster unhealthy emotional dependence on the chatbot, with one unnamed council member saying Open AI risked creating a “sexy suicide coach.”
Content moderation issues have also contributed to the delays. Sources familiar with the matter told The Journal that Open AI is struggling to lift Chat GPT’s restrictions on NSFW content while keeping more harmful scenarios off limits, such as those depicting nonconsensual behavior or child sexual abuse.
The age-prediction system that Open AI developed to keep children away from erotica was also, at one point, misclassifying minors as adults about 12 percent of the time. Given Chat GPT attracts around 100 million users under 18 each week, that error rate could allow millions of minors into sexualized conversations with the chatbot. Open AI’s age prediction algorithms show similar performance to the rest of the industry, an unnamed spokesperson told The Journal, but “will never be completely foolproof.”
Sticking to text-based conversations may make it easier for the Chat GPT-maker to navigate around rules like the UK’s Online Safety Act, which requires online platforms to enforce age verification for pornographic images, but not written erotica. It also contrasts with more visual NSFW experiences from rival AI providers, such as Grok’s “spicy” companions, with x AI’s Elon Musk announcing last week that Grok’s image and video generator is allowed to spit out anything that’s “allowed in an R-rated movie.”
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