US EditionOpenAI puts erotic chatbot plans on hold ‘indefinitely’
OpenAI halted its adult-themed ChatGPT and discontinued Sora due to safety, ethical, and commercial concerns, with a 10% age-verification error rate cited by the Financial Times.
- OpenAI has indefinitely paused plans to release an adult-oriented chatbot, reportedly called 'Citron mode,' according to a report from The Financial Times.
- Investors and staff raised concerns that an erotica-generating model conflicts with the company's mission to ensure artificial intelligence benefits humanity, leading to the project's cancellation.
- Recent lawsuits involving ChatGPT and youth safety coincided with technical challenges, as the model showed an error rate over 10 percent in distinguishing adults from minors.
- Dropping 'side quests' like the video generator Sora, the company is refocusing on core productivity tools, including coding assistants.
- CEO Sam Altman declared a 'code red' previously, prioritizing core business as competitors like Google and Anthropic close in on the company's lead.
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The company OpenAI suspended indefinitely its plans to release a chatbot with explicit sexual content.The company announced the news this Thursday in the face of concerns about the social and reputational risks involved in a product of this type.The Financial Times first announced this decision.The AI giant seeks to eliminate secondary projects to protect its leadership in the sector.The function was called internally as Citron mode.According to…
In October, the owner of OpenAI Sam Altman challenged criticism by announcing the relaxation of ChatGPT restrictions as early as December, promising to "treat adult users as adults".
The global leader of the general AI, OpenAI, has thrown sponges, fearing the potentially harmful effects of sexual conversations while the company faces several lawsuits in the United States regarding the impact of new technologies on mental health.
OpenAI Is Pulling Back on Its Erotic Chatbot. Here’s Why.
For a brief, fleeting moment, one of the biggest names in AI thought they were going to revolutionize the industry with a new, wholly original idea: pornography. Well, erotica, or whatever cleaned-up PR word you want to use to describe AI-generated sex content. You may remember the not-too-distant past when OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced it would release an erotic chatbot for adults. That plan is now being “indefinitely” delayed, …
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