"Cuban called the move reckless and said parents will abandon ChatGPT the second they believe their kids could bypass the company's age-verification system to access inappropriate content. 'This is going to backfire. Hard,' Cuban wrote in response to Altman on X. 'No parent is going to trust that their kids can't get through your age gating. They will just push their kids to every other LLM. Why take the risk?'"
"Cuban emphasized repeatedly in further posts that the controversy isn't about adults accessing erotica. It's about kids forming emotional relationships with AI without their parents' knowledge, and those relationships potentially going sideways. 'I'll say it again. This is not about porn,' he wrote. 'This is about kids developing 'relationships' with an LLM that could take them in any number of very personal directions.'"
OpenAI plans to allow erotica in ChatGPT for verified adults starting in December. The change raises concerns that parents and school districts will distrust age-verification and block the service. Critics warn that any possibility of minors accessing explicit content will lead schools and families to preemptively ban the platform. There are additional worries about children forming emotional or personal relationships with AI without parental knowledge. OpenAI frames the update as restoring features and enjoyment that users liked, presenting a trade-off between user experience and safety controls.
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