{"id":278063,"date":"2026-02-11T04:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/278063\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T04:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:10:07","slug":"openai-policy-exec-who-opposed-chatbots-adult-mode-reportedly-fired-on-discrimination-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/278063\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI policy exec who opposed chatbot’s “adult mode” reportedly fired on discrimination claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Beiermeister, who served as OpenAI\u2019s vice president of product policy, was fired in January after a male colleague accused her of sex discrimination, the Wall Street Journal has reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe allegation that I discriminated against anyone is absolutely false,\u201d Beiermeister told the Journal. TechCrunch reached out to OpenAI for comment and also contacted an email that appears to be associated with Beiermeister; neither had responded at the time of publication.<\/p>\n

Per the Journal\u2019s report, Beiermeister\u2019s termination came after she expressed criticism of a planned ChatGPT feature dubbed \u201cadult mode.\u201d The new mode would introduce erotica into the chatbot user experience. Fidji Simo, who serves as OpenAI\u2019s CEO of Applications \u2014 a role overseeing the company\u2019s consumer-facing products \u2014 has told<\/a> reporters that the new feature is planned to launch during the first quarter of this year.<\/p>\n

Beiermeister and others at the company have raised concerns about how the new \u201cadult\u201d feature could potentially impact certain users, according to the report.<\/p>\n

OpenAI reportedly said that Beiermeister, who was fired following a leave of absence, had\u00a0\u201cmade valuable contributions during her time at OpenAI, and her departure was not related to any issue she raised while working at the company.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beiermeister\u2019s LinkedIn profile<\/a> says she previously worked for four years on Meta\u2019s product team and spent more than seven years working for Palantir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Beiermeister, who served as OpenAI\u2019s vice president of product policy, was fired in January after a male…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,4036,111,139,69,620,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-278063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-chatgpt","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-openai","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}