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.”
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.
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.”
Imagine one man having the power to decide such things for all of society. He sure likes to.
Altman and OpenAI greatly overestimate their ability to control what is done with this technology. The more they tighten their grip, the more open-weights sexbots will slip through their fingers.
I think this might be part of their rationale. Llama2 models have been used pretty extensively for these purposes and completely (gasp) for free, it’s not creating any value for their investors :(
Otoh, not everyone has the frankly marginal technical skills it requires to download and use KoboldCPP, but using ChatGPT really couldn’t be any easier. They and their investors stand to benefit enormously from redefining what they consider to be ethical while also limiting the impact on LLM use attitudes that derive from open source model use.
Been weird seeing the reactions to this news. Suddenly everyone’s against porn.
I read this headline and my first thought is that someone will use it to depict a celebrity or politician in a porn or gore (or both) context. That’s my reason for being against it.
I honestly don’t care at all if someone’s sexting with a Merkel inspired chat bot.
If they have such a scenario in their head, they could probably type it out already, without any AI help.
If there’s anyone whose sexual fetish is exploring previously unseen parts of the uncanny valley, they’re in for a hell of a good time in the next few years.
I’ve noticed in recent years that we’ve somehow become more puritan in a lot of ways. It’s bizarre to see.
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.
I want AI generated hentai personally. Preferably one where I can feed it my own characters.
There’s a difference between being against porn and being against deepfakes.
What the fuck has Reddit become? 4chan?
Not necessarily superior but we clearly took the best with us when we left. 🤔
Because a successful tech CEO commented about a topic people are interested in? I understand that you puritans hate sexuality and any forn of art that isn’t strictly censored in a dozen ways but wow if you think that’s what’s going on on 4chan you’re so naive it’s kinda sweet.
I don’t really see the harm in that, if someone wants to erp an ai, they’ll find a way. If I remember correctly, OpenAI already isn’t all that rigorous with banning people who break the ToS in that way.
I don’t get the reactions as well. Are we pretending there is a lot of gore and erotic content in media??? Just because this is choose your own adventure its different. Oh if a writer writes a gory story with T and A to sell to others thats fine but someon asks a computer program to whip up a custom one and now its “creepy”
