SAN FRANCISCO—OpenAI, the parent company of the popular artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT, reportedly will prevent its long-awaited "adult mode" from generating deep fakes and synthetic NSFW models and will keep it specific to "smut" and sexually-explicit text generation, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
WSJ spoke to an unnamed spokesperson for OpenAI who described the new change as necessary, with a new rollout schedule not yet formalized. AVN reported last week that "adult mode" was delayed until concerns over mental health and other controversial uses of ChatGPT are addressed.
Note that the Journal also revealed that members of an advisory council of mental health experts selected by OpenAI warned the company in January that the proposed "adult mode" would be a huge risk for minors. One council member not identified in the reporting indicted OpenAI of laying the groundwork for potentially creating a "sexy suicide coach."
Further, the reporting suggests that internal age verification efforts were considered "spotty." As AVN first reported on OpenAI's proposal for an "adult mode," company chief executive officer and co-founder Sam Altman shared in October that they will be deploying age assurance and estimation tech to identify users aged 18 years or older. Also in January, OpenAI expanded its age assurance program by deploying solutions from an online identity provider called Persona. Ars Technica categorized Persona as "invasive" and riddled with errors.
