{"id":218640,"date":"2025-10-17T01:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218640\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:32:12","slug":"sam-altman-would-like-us-all-to-be-grown-ups-about-the-sexy-stuff-coming-soon-to-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218640\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman Would Like Us All to Be Grown-Ups About the Sexy Stuff Coming Soon to ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an X post<\/a> on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman clarified that when he said ChatGPT might soon manufacture custom erotica, that \u201cwas meant to be just one example of [OpenAI] allowing more user freedom for adults.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ok this tweet about upcoming changes to ChatGPT blew up on the erotica point much more than I thought it was going to! It was meant to be just one example of us allowing more user freedom for adults. Here is an effort to better communicate it:<\/p>\n

As we have said earlier, we are\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/OUVfevokHE<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sam Altman (@sama) October 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

A post from Altman the previous day<\/a> had alerted the world to the fact that ChatGPT will soon include \u201cerotica for verified adults,\u201d and Altman now says that post \u201cblew up on the erotica point\u201d more than he thought it would. \u201cErotica\u201d is a vague term without a technical or legal definition. It seems to be deployed by collectors of old timey nude photos, or when one describes art or literature that can include titillating amounts of sex and nudity, when said art also needs to sound like it has more redeeming aesthetic value than pornography.<\/p>\n

So go ahead and picture something sexy coming from ChatGPT, but not too sexy, because that would be porn, and as OpenAI told Mashable last year<\/a>, \u201cWe have no intention to create AI-generated pornography.\u201d<\/p>\n

We asked OpenAI to clarify whether it will generate \u201cerotica\u201d in the form of chats only, or whether there will be erotic images produced within the ChatGPT app by its image model, DALL-E\u2014the one that\u2019s so impressive at generating images that look like anime, and which may or may not soon be capable of generating hentai. We will update if we hear back.<\/p>\n

The erotica remark in the earlier Altman post was about a coming update aimed at removing safeguards, and ostensibly allowing \u201cverified adults\u201d to chat with a broadly less restricted version of OpenAI\u2019s signature product. As we noted at the time<\/a>, the more permissive version of the chat app soon to be delivered sounds a bit like OpenAI highlighting the seemingly addictive or parasocial attributes of ChatGPT once again, after the GPT-5 update flopped<\/a> at least in part because its default tone had become less friendly and supportive.<\/p>\n

Many, however, reasonably gleaned the idea that porn\u2014the form of content that gets perhaps 13-20 percent of all search traffic online<\/a>\u2014is in fact on its way to ChatGPT. One popular post speculated<\/a> that OpenAI was launching a full-scale invasion of the online porn sphere. That\u2019s not a crazy assumption. OpenAI is expected to have cash outflows of around $115 billion<\/a> between now and 2029, and Altman has been explicit about his company needing to find ways to bring in revenue, even if\u2014as with the launch of Sora 2\u2014OpenAI gets criticized for poor taste. Sora 2\u2019s tsunami of slop videos is justified, Altman says<\/a>, because it makes people smile, and can \u201chopefully make some money given all that compute need.\u201d Well, some analysts have estimated the value of the porn industry<\/a> at close to $200 billion. A piece of that action would build an awful lot of compute.<\/p>\n

On the internet, wild speculation that OpenAI is getting into porn, or porn-adjacent \u201cerotica,\u201d to drive revenue is inevitable given what the company\u2019s CEO is teasing here. If Altman\u2019s intent is to kick off another version of the 1980s home video revolution in order to bring in the cold hard cash his company so desperately needs, content for horny people who aren\u2019t all that discerning would be a historically grounded<\/a>, if tacky, way to speed up revenue growth.<\/p>\n

So no, OpenAI hasn\u2019t yet clarified where the sexy stuff will come out of the AI pipes, and whether it will be text, photos, or even video. But Altman even struck a rather Larry Flynt-like<\/a>, free-speech-warrior tone in his clarifying post, saying that \u201callowing a lot of freedom for people to use AI in the ways that they want is an important part of [OpenAI\u2019s] mission,\u201d and adding that he and his company \u201care not the elected moral police of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n