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OpenAI said it will eventually release a text-only adult mode for ChatGPT, The Wall Street Journal reporteddespite strong concerns from the company’s advisors.
In Adult Mode, ChatGPT users will be able to have adult-themed text conversations, The magazine saidQuoted by an OpenAI spokesperson. But the chatbot will not be able to create exciting audio clips, images or videos. An OpenAI spokesperson told the newspaper that the company considers these chats “obscene and not pornographic.”
ChatGPT It is an AI-powered chatbot launched in November 2022 by OpenAI, an AI research and publishing company led by CEO Sam Altman. Since its release, ChatGPT has blocked provocative content, although in recent years, OpenAI has begun thinking about ways to allow some provocative and NSFW (not appropriate for work) content.
An OpenAI representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, alleging that it infringed Ziff Davis’s copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)
There is no release date for ChatGPT’s adult mode.
Adult placement has been postponed
OpenAI said earlier this month that it was Delay feature to focus on higher priority items, including “gains in intelligence, character improvements, customization, and making the experience more proactive.” The company said it wanted to take the time to get the adult mode “right.”
Initially, the company intended to launch the adult mode by late March.
Ryan Biermeister, an executive in charge of product policy who had voiced opposition to the adult mode rollout, was fired in January. The Wall Street Journal reported in February.
After a leave of absence, Biermeister was fired, which the company claimed was due to sex discrimination against a male colleague. In early 2025, Baermeister began a mentoring program for women at the company. OpenAI denied that the CEO’s firing was related to her explicit concerns about the sexy feature, and Biermeister said the discrimination allegation was “completely false,” the report said.
Unnamed employees told the newspaper that Beiermeister was concerned that OpenAI lacked strong guardrails against content that exploited children, and that teens could easily access adult chats.
Last October, Altman Published on X that the company “will allow more user freedom for adults,” saying the company will protect minors from harmful material but also “treat adult users like adults” and Allowing “eroticism” on ChatGPT.
Altman said the company has made strides toward prioritizing children’s safety following an incident A lawsuit over a teenager’s suicide. Last September, OpenAI Added parental controls Which allows parents to specify times when their children cannot use ChatGPT. Parents can also disable photo creation and sound mode.
Company representatives faced strong opposition from a panel of advisors at a January meeting, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The company has created an advisory board to “help define what healthy interactions with AI for all ages should look like.” The consultants included experts in psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
At the January meeting, consultants warned that children would find ways around age restrictions and access the talks. Counselors also said it was possible some users would become emotionally dependent on adult mode.
One consultant said OpenAI risks setting adults up to create a “sexy suicide coach,” referring to some ChatGPT users who… They took their own lives.
Citing unnamed sources, the Wall Street Journal report said that OpenAI is trying to harden its system Age prediction technologywhich attempts to guess the user’s age by “General topics you talk about or times of day to use ChatGPTThe magazine’s report cited sources as saying that the system was incorrectly classifying minors as adults about 12% of the time — resulting in millions of minors being able to create conversations with an adult theme.
OpenAI also wants to ensure that adult mode does not enable users to delve into topics such as child sexual abuse or non-consensual sexual behavior, the report said.
By launching the new feature, OpenAI will delve into what has become a major topic in the rapidly expanding world of artificial intelligence – sexual material produced by chatbots. Elon Musk allegedly groped him It generated millions of non-consensual sexual imagesAnd meta-artificial intelligence It is being investigated To have sensory conversations with children.