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highplainsdem

(63,104 posts)
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 09:42 AM Oct 2025

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults (The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/news/799312/openai-chatgpt-erotica-sam-altman-verified-adults

OpenAI will soon allow “erotica” for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform. In an X post on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will add support for mature conversations when it launches age-gating in December.

“As we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our ‘treat adult users like adults’ principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults,” Altman writes. Earlier this month, OpenAI hinted at allowing developers to create “mature” ChatGPT apps after it implements the “appropriate age verification and controls.”

OpenAI isn’t the only company dipping into erotica, as Elon Musk’s xAI previously launched flirty AI companions, which appear as 3D anime models in the Grok app.

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Altman said OpenAI made ChatGPT “pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues,” adding that the company realized this change made the chatbot “less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems.” OpenAI has since launched tools to “better detect” when a user is in mental distress.

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This is such bullshit. But then, what we hear from Sam Altman usually is. Including any claim from him that OpenAI has done much (if anything) to prevent the mental health issues they know their chatbots are causing.

Even though the AI companies are busy using circular financing to try to keep their AI bubble from bursting, they still want users who are addicted to their chatbots. This is an obvious attempt by OpenAI to lure in new users - and to cater to users who already love having a chatbot designed to be sycophantic tell them how smart, perceptive and creative they are, but would ALSO like it to tell them how sexy they are.
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Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults (The Verge) (Original Post) highplainsdem Oct 2025 OP
Desperate to... 2naSalit Oct 2025 #1
I hate it here Prairie Gates Oct 2025 #2
You mean this timeline with Trump and the AI bros? I think we all share that hate. highplainsdem Oct 2025 #3
WHY? Why degrade our society like this? travelingthrulife Oct 2025 #4
Because: If they can, they will. MineralMan Oct 2025 #5
Let's deplete our critical resources for more Jizz! Make America Jizz Again!!! chowder66 Oct 2025 #6
Nothing on Earth is more important than the male orgasm. Maru Kitteh Oct 2025 #12
I think this is clearly designed to increase Prairie_Seagull Oct 2025 #7
Since when is sexting a mature conversation?? travelingthrulife Oct 2025 #8
It'll take the kids about ten seconds to blow through any age-gate... Hugin Oct 2025 #9
You will need credit card. speak easy Oct 2025 #13
It's all about the money Hey Joe Oct 2025 #10
Damn Solly Mack Oct 2025 #11
GO AWAY, BATIN' Stacey Grove Oct 2025 #14

2naSalit

(103,809 posts)
1. Desperate to...
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 09:47 AM
Oct 2025

Keep your attention on their screens they now offer more sex because... sex sells.


Maru Kitteh

(32,010 posts)
12. Nothing on Earth is more important than the male orgasm.
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 12:04 PM
Oct 2025

I believe we’ve proven that definitively, as a species.

Prairie_Seagull

(4,806 posts)
7. I think this is clearly designed to increase
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 10:22 AM
Oct 2025

interest in AI for purposes of profitability. In my own opinion, it will probably work. Incels will love it.19.95 to be treated like an adult. haha It's going to put hookers out of work.

Hugin

(37,993 posts)
9. It'll take the kids about ten seconds to blow through any age-gate...
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 11:58 AM
Oct 2025

God bless, the kids.

If any of them use AI, maybe faster.

speak easy

(12,598 posts)
13. You will need credit card.
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 04:25 AM
Oct 2025

Entry level Open AI is $20 months. If kids steal the numbers it will turn up on their parents / adults credit statements -ie it's a money grab.

Hey Joe

(814 posts)
10. It's all about the money
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 12:01 PM
Oct 2025

There is nothing they won’t do to increase profitability. Wouldn’t surprise me if they start doing S&M or torture chatbots so the sickos can get their yaya’s off.
Nothing surprises me anymore.

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