
"Sam Altman casually said on X Tuesday that OpenAI is planning to introduce NSFW content on ChatGPT as soon as December. The comment, which came at the bottom of a discussion about user mental health, raises all kinds of questions about user safety and trust, and about what audiences OpenAI really wants to serve. Altman says the company hopes to implement a new age-gating mechanism through which users will prove they're old enough to consume adult content."
"On ChatGPT, that implies frank discussions about sex with the chatbot, or maybe some forms of entertainment such as role-playing with sexy AI companions. Elon Musk's xAI has already gone well down that road with its AI Companions, which launched during the summer within the Grok chatbot. The companions, reserved for Premium subscribers on the Grok app, have a "NSFW" mode and are willing and ready to engage in sexy conversation."
"The way Altman frames NSFW AI sounds similar to Musk's approach to appropriate content. "As part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults," he wrote on X. So it's not hard to imagine ChatGPT going down some of the roads xAI has taken. To some extent, this may apply to image generators too. Musk has already gone there."
OpenAI plans to introduce NSFW content on ChatGPT possibly as soon as December and intends to use age-gating to verify adults. Allowing NSFW content would enable frank sexual discussions, erotica, and role-playing with AI companions. xAI's Grok companions already offer a NSFW mode for premium users and illustrate how sexualized companions operate in chat environments. Altman frames the change as treating adult users like adults and explicitly mentions erotica for verified adults. The shift raises significant questions about user safety, trust, audience targeting, moderation, and potential expansion into image generators.
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