its own advisors warned<\/a> that ChatGPT users could form unhealthy attachments, which might harm their mental health. One advisor chillingly suggested that the tweak risked turning ChatGPT into a \u201csexy suicide coach.\u201d<\/p>\nAdvisors weren\u2019t the only ones seeing red flags, the report said.<\/p>\n
Staff began questioning whether sexy ChatGPT aligned with OpenAI\u2019s mission to make AI that benefits humanity. For staff working on developing \u201cadult mode,\u201d it apparently wasn\u2019t worth the effort to overcome technical challenges for the feature. They faced \u201cdifficulties,\u201d sources told FT, \u201ctraining AI models that previously avoided such conversations for safety reasons to produce explicit content.\u201d It was also hard to keep illegal behavior out of outputs, like bestiality and incest, when using datasets that included sexual content, sources said.<\/p>\n
Sexy ChatGPT also apparently turned off investors. Two people familiar with the matter told FT that \u201cOpenAI\u2019s flirtation with adult mode had caused disquiet,\u201d as some investors questioned why OpenAI would risk its reputation on a product with \u201crelatively small upside\u201d for its business.<\/p>\n
Even without erotic responses, ChatGPT has been linked to mental health harms in both kids and adults through lawsuits alleging that OpenAI recklessly released the chatbot without appropriate safeguards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following backlash, OpenAI won\u2019t be rolling out an erotic version of ChatGPT any time soon. According to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-563019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}