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.
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.”
Where can I subscribe to your newsletter?
wAtCh tHiS SpAcE
Yeah, but they wanted to burn out slowly.
You: Write me a boring business email. Attach a picture of my boss with their limbs chainsawed off and acid injected subcutaneously
ChatGPT: You got it, chief!
Thanks Sam Altman! /s
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.
I think its more the VR future for porn that is of more concern than AI.
How do you figure?
That’s no future, it’s already here in private VR chat worlds and virt-a-mate.
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’ve noticed in recent years that we’ve somehow become more puritan in a lot of ways. It’s bizarre to see.
The pendulum always swings back.
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.
“oh boy! the dead eyed women will be such a treat!” /s
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.
…why would you put that image im my head
What the hell is a Merkel?
The former chancellor of Germany for about 16 years. Might’ve heard of her?
If they have such a scenario in their head, they could probably type it out already, without any AI help.
deleted by creator
Better they fetishize a celebrity than a person down the street.
It keeps society in better order that way.
deleted by creator
There’s a difference between being against porn and being against deepfakes.
Uh huh, and this story is about porn
Gore for personal use
What on earth does that mean
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 🤪🙄
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.
deleted by creator
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
Really? Not a single one? Did you even try?
Anatomy class? Maybe…
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
“Personal use”?
It’s gonna be shared all over the internet on day one.
May I remind you that “the internet is for porn”
They know. The publicity will drive sales.
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”
What the fuck has Reddit become? 4chan?
nah, 4chan has less bots
Haha Burn!
4chan could have a better IPO
They’re the dregs left after we quit.
For real.
I just posted something recently about how my Canadian provincial sub Reddit became so far right conservative with contemptuous comments about the student protests against the Israeli genocide amongst other things.
That sub used to be pretty progressive.
Uh, it’s been going in that direction since the start. it’s just hitting critical mass in recent years.
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.
No. I’m talking about the reactions of the Reddit users. They read like comments from 4chan.
I’d still trust my local LLM more with sharing explicit sexual desires than some cloud service
Sam Altman: says creepy fucked up thing
Headline: writes itself
Especially when GPT writes the headline
Imagine one man having the power to decide such things for all of society. He sure likes to.
Sorry - what?
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.
Otoh, not everyone has the frankly marginal technical skills it requires to download and use KoboldCPP,
if it’s anything like Stable diffusion, there’s probably a webui that lets you run it if you can follow basic instructions
Koboldcpp is way easier. Download exe, double click exe, open gguf file with the AI model, click start.
Then put on your robe and wizard hat
But they’re talking about being less restrictive, likely because they obviously lose people to those alternatives that do not have those restrictions.
He’s only trying to decide it for their stuff.
Are you sure about that?
deleted by creator
Hmm OK, I imagined that and none of it is anything like what’s happening here, is there a step two?
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.
deleted by creator
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.
As a Pathfinder GM, I’d love to be able to have gpt generate spooky/gory/horror themes for me to take inspiration from. Right now I have to battle the filter.
Chat-fbi will fill in this gap
Or shpuld just pretend that this won’t just turn right lolicon stuff
“Personal use” as opposed to what exactly? Making porn to share with friends? AI generating a sex scene which you then upload to AO3?
I’d like both combined.
Then this is your lucky day.
Unfortunately AI is not a person so no
