OpenAI’s adult mode will reportedly be raunchy rather than pornographic

OpenAI’s delayed “Adult Mode” for ChatGPT is expected to support raunchy text conversations at launch, but not the chatbot’s ability to generate images, audio, or video. talking to The Wall Street JournalAn unnamed OpenAI spokesperson described the content the upcoming feature will provide as smut rather than porn, allowing ChatGPT users to create text conversations with adult topics.

The delay is also due to internal concerns and technical challenges around the feature’s guarantees, according to the Verge website. The Wall Street JournalReports. A board of advisors chosen by OpenAI warned the company in January that ChatGPT’s adult mode could be accessible to children and promote unhealthy emotional dependence on the chatbot, with one unnamed board member saying OpenAI risked creating a “suicide sensational coach.”

Content moderation issues also contributed to the delay. Sources familiar with the matter said Magazine OpenAI is struggling to lift ChatGPT’s restrictions on NSFW content while keeping the most harmful scenarios off limits, such as those depicting non-consensual behavior or child sexual abuse.

An age prediction system developed by OpenAI to keep kids out of sexual arousal was also, at one point, misclassifying minors as adults about 12 percent of the time. Since ChatGPT attracts about 100 million users under 18 each week, this error rate could allow millions of minors to have sexual conversations with the chatbot. An OpenAI spokesperson said OpenAI’s age prediction algorithms show similar performance to the rest of the industry MagazineBut “it will never be completely foolproof.”

Sticking to text chats may make it easier for the maker of ChatGPT to navigate around rules like the UK’s Internet Safety Act, which requires online platforms to enforce age verification for pornographic images, but not written erotica. It also contrasts with more NSFW visual experiences from competing AI providers, e.g Your puppy’s “hot” buddies.with xAI’s Elon Musk announcing last week that Grok’s image and video generator is allowed to output anything “Allowed in an R-rated movie“.