Sam Altman is the topic of scorn as soon as once more after asserting that the brand new ChatGPT replace will enable erotica era.

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On Tuesday, Altman made a considerably weird announcement on X as to the place ChatGPT is headed. He first began out by saying ChatGPT was initially “pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues,” a declare that appears extraordinarily doubtful contemplating among the tragic tales which have come out.

After alleging that OpenAI has been in a position to “mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools,” Altman mentioned that restrictions surrounding what ChatGPT can and can’t do are going to be relaxed in “most cases.”

“In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o,” he mentioned. “If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).”

Then he added: “In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our ‘treat adult users like adults’ principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.”

The idea of erotica-generating AI

The idea of utilizing AI to generate erotic fiction isn’t new. There have been loads of discussions on AI subreddits over the previous couple of years questioning how one can get round guardrails on sure platforms, like ChatGPT, and asking which providers take away these guardrails totally.

And if somebody is absolutely dedicated to the concept of utilizing AI to cough up some smutty fiction, there are many choices already, from Smitten, which generates full tales primarily based on prompts, to NovelAI, which permits customers to write down alongside the AI.

Obviously, AI stays extraordinarily controversial, notably in terms of something inventive. But the purpose right here is that individuals who desperately need erotica-generating AI for no matter purpose have already got entry to it with out OpenAI stepping in.

ChatGPT erotica will get ridiculed

Despite all of that, ChatGPT is arguably essentially the most well-known AI-generating platform. So it is sensible, from a enterprise standpoint, that OpenAI would wish to attempt to enhance its buyer base by tapping into the, properly, erotica-generating market. 

At the identical time, having a machine pump out erotica is miserable on a number of ranges.

To begin, utilizing AI to generate any fiction reasonably than encouraging people to specific themselves creatively is only a bummer. Then there’s additionally the half the place persons are already falling into bizarre spirals the place they really feel like AI is an actual particular person, pal, or perhaps a important different they’re speaking to, and including a sexual element to that actually received’t assist that psychosis.

And then, in fact, there are the assets being dedicated to this, each by way of the literal assets AI takes up, like vitality and water, and the cash being thrown at this as an alternative of one thing that may truly higher society.

But tech bros do no matter they need, and all the remainder of us can actually do more often than not is mock them for it on the web. So right here we’re once more.

“we are inventing levels of Loserdom previously unknown to mankind,” wrote @jaboukie.

Mark Cuban additionally weighed in, writing, “This is going to backfire. Hard. No parent is going to trust that their kids can’t get through your age gating. Why take the risk?”

“Weird how the update is never ‘we cured cancer or whatever,’” tweeted @davidgross_man.

“a project unwaveringly committed to ruining the experience of being alive for as many people as possible” added @tristandross.

“Translation: OpenAI is the least profitable company in human history so we’re gonna go all in on the school shooter and pornography markets and see if that doesn’t juice our abysmal ROI stats just a little,” wrote @sethharpesq.

Now, a very cynical particular person would possibly recommend that this may solely increase the present requires additional censorship on the web by way of authorities intervention. After all, no one needs youngsters to have entry to an AI platform that may generate erotica for them, proper?

Altman mentioned there can be age restrictions in play, however we’ll simply have to attend and see what these are and the way properly they really work.

But bear in mind—in case you do use ChatGPT to generate some kinky erotica, it will not be non-public eternally.

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