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Joshua Wolens

ChatGPT giant OpenAI is 'exploring' a more relaxed attitude towards AI-generated porn and smut

OpenAI logo displayed on a phone screen and ChatGPT website displayed on a laptop screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on December 5, 2022. .

In a statement more foreboding than its tone suggests, ChatGPT maker OpenAI is considering allowing its users to "generate NSFW content in age-appropriate contexts through the API and ChatGPT." Creating AI-generated pornography, in other words, potentially opening up an enormous can of worms for the very popular AI, which is already the target of all kinds of scrutiny, criticism, and litigation.

The announcement that OpenAI is "exploring" the possibility of opening up its tools to explicit content came in the form of a brief aside in a long document about the development of its AI models. 

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