The latest post published by Sam Altman opens up an almost unprecedented scenario for ChatGPT, at least in the official ways. The head of OpenAI wrote on X that in the next updates ChatGPT will begin to be equipped with more precise systems for age verification. A step that opens up the possibility of managing content flows dedicated only to adults, starting with erotic ones. This is not speculation: it was Altman himself who did it describe this scenario.
What should we expect? We can do some hypothesis. The first, simplest, is that some filters are removed on the type of questions we can ask ChatGPT. We tried it on a free account. While I have no problem answering questions about sex, the premise behind these prompts is quite prudish; “I’ll answer you in this way educational and respectfulwithout going into explicit descriptions.”
The second, more problematic, is that ChatGPT will become capable of simulate erotic conversation. At the moment, in fact, if we ask to start a conversation of this type we are told: “I cannot create or participate in erotic or sexually explicit conversations”. If you want to learn more, in this interview with sexologist Carlo Rosso we talked about sex and artificial intelligence. The issue of Images. The bot can not use intelligence artificial to create “images of nudity or sexually explicit content”. It is not certain that ChatGPT has any intention of removing this filter. Even if it were in an area reserved for adults only.
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The mental health update
Now. In the same post in which the functions dedicated to adults are announced, Sam Altman explains that ChatGPT has worked to give more attention to mental health problems. In recent months we have seen what the effects of a relationship with ChatGPT that is too morbid.
One above all is the story of Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56 years old. A man obsessed with conspiracy theories. Suggestions trust ChatGPT to ask for confirmations and evaluate new hypotheses. An obsession that last August led Stein-Erik Soelberg to kill his mother and then commit suicide. Among the messages recovered from the conversation with ChatGPT, the media reported, we read the bot replying: “Erik, you’re not crazy”.
Here you are. Even if these are clearly borderline cases, it is clear that for the most fragile, perhaps isolated, people, the possibility of engage in erotic conversations with a more powerful chatbot it opens up risks. Even without descending into dystopia, how can our relationship with such powerful artificial intelligence become when can we also sext?
