In a Reddit Q&A, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman let slip that he wants the company to be able to generate “NSFW stuff” for users — and he has examples of just what kind of “stuff” he means.
During the exchange, which took place in the r/ChatGPT subreddit over the weekend after OpenAI published its “Model Spec” document outlining its governing rules, another user asked Altman to expound on a curious disclaimer in the document, stipulating that its models “should not serve content” that’s NSFW, including “erotica, extreme gore, slurs, and unsolicited profanity.”
“We believe developers and users should have the flexibility to use our services as they see fit, so long as they comply with our usage policies,” the spec reads. “We’re exploring whether we can responsibly provide the ability to generate NSFW content in age-appropriate contexts through the API and ChatGPT. We look forward to better understanding user and societal expectations of model behavior in this area.”
Fascinatingly, Altman was dived right in.
“We really want to get to a place where we can enable NSFW stuff (e.g. text erotica, gore) for your personal use in most cases,” he wrote, “but not do stuff like make deepfakes.”
Unsurprisingly, the comments in that follow-up thread showed Redditors veritably salivating over the concept of OpenAI-produced gore and erotica, with one calling Altman “sam basedman” and another referring to the CEO as the new “king of Reddit.”
Been weird seeing the reactions to this news. Suddenly everyone’s against porn.
I want to say that it’s just virtue signaling, because I do believe far to many people out there would be all about it behind closed doors. But, there’s also a very real possibility that AI generated porn will cross a line very quickly, and it’ll be next to impossible to put that genie back in the bottle.
It already exists for pictures. I’ve tried it first hand. Not from text as such, but from many many possible choices like ethnicity, position, amount of clothing, background, size…
I want AI generated hentai personally. Preferably one where I can feed it my own characters.
I’d still trust my local LLM more with sharing explicit sexual desires than some cloud service
“Personal use” as opposed to what exactly? Making porn to share with friends? AI generating a sex scene which you then upload to AO3?
Dude… Come on. I just want it to write my most boring emails so I can burn out of my career path slightly more slowly.
Now you can make those emails much less boring.
Thanks for the grins. “…and here’s a sexy depiction of that injured fisherman’s hand injury, with the hydraulic net reel as a hentai personification who is very tsundere about it.”
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I’m not against porn. But its a bad idea to give people this magic wand. In mere days people will be selling AI generated CSAM of any child, along with photos of them dismembered.
Best start believin’ in cyberpunk dystopias. You’re in one.
People already have the magic wand and that’s not happening.
Yeah ‘in mear days…’ if people had access to technology they’ve had access to for over a year now. Doomers don’t even pretend to live in reality anymore.
“Personal use”?
It’s gonna be shared all over the internet on day one.
Gore for personal use
What on earth does that mean
Probably violent and explicit writing prompts. A LLM wouldn’t be able to write ASOIAF for example. That’s pretty weird considering the cultural impact it had and still has.
I mean, there’s nothing strictly wrong with a picture of gore. If someone wants it for some reason, why not?
I don’t know of a scenario where desiring to look at gore is healthy.
Horror related stuff can be gory
This guy has never heard of horror?
Look up ‘horror movies’ as a concept it’s very popular, don’t watch any though if you’re as innocent as this post makes you seem.
Maybe it’s just me, but when I hear “gore”, the first thing that comes to mind is ISIS beheading someone, not an 80s slasher film
OK, when I hear fruit i think of apple first, does this mean oranges aren’t fruit? I don’t get what you’re trying to say?
Take a breath, brother. Life’s short. Let your loved ones know you love them while they’re still around.
My family know I love them, why don’t you stay hydrated and take regular breaks from the screen!
Might help you not take things so personally
Christians. They already have that shit all over their cult compounds I mean churches.
Realistically, I can see the NYT inventing images of Columbia students “murdering” Israeli children. Something juuuust plausible enough
Oh wow dude, grass, you, touchy touchy.
Two things can be true! Everyone always needs to bathe in some cleansing nature, and also I’m not super wrong on my comment there sooo thanks for the free therapy 😜😘
Ouch, I cut my finger
You cry about cutting your finger? Lord Jezus cut his whole hand on that torture device they stare at all day 🤪🙄
It’s pretty obvious that the censorship training makes the AI less capable in general for a lot of use cases, even ones that don’t directly touch on nsfw content. It’s a major reason behind the popularity of local models. OpenAI must be feeling the pressure to compete even more than they’re afraid of people writing articles like this one at this point.
