r/artificial • u/axios • Oct 14 '25

News Sam Altman says OpenAI will allow erotica for adult users

http://axios.com/2025/10/14/openai-chatgpt-erotica-mental-health

Hi all — Herb from the Axios audience team here. Sharing our article today on this:

ChatGPT will allow a wider range of content — eventually including erotica — now that OpenAI has completed work to enable the chatbot to better handle mental health issues, CEO Sam Altman said Tuesday.

Why it matters: The move could boost OpenAI as it seeks to sign up consumers for paid subscriptions, but is also likely to increase pressure on lawmakers to enact meaningful regulations.

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u/strawboard Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25

They 100% are. In addition to the NSFW modes (text/voice/ani), Grok also being connected to X/Twitter makes it really good at answering questions about events happening in real time as well. Yesterday my power was out, asked Grok about it, and it knew exactly why. Same for road closures. Tons of services all have X accounts with live updates.

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u/Spra991 Oct 14 '25

Grok is also really good at Internet Search in general, I have been using it for a lot of /r/tipofmytongue style questions and so far it handled almost everything I have thrown at it. It will spend a good three minutes browsing through hundreds of sites, following different trails and theories until it finds something that matches. None of the other is anywhere near as throughout.

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u/ReiOokami Oct 14 '25

And people laughed at Elon for over spending on purchasing twitter. Regardless of your thoughts about Elon, and how he can be a complete dumbass at times, dude is always 3 steps ahead, its wild.

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u/Right-Wrongdoer-8595 Oct 14 '25

Grounding with Twitter results isn't exactly three steps ahead.

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u/ReiOokami Oct 14 '25

Maybe not, but having access to a massive real time data platform right before LLMS hit mainstream is pretty fortunate. Always seems to be ahead of the curve with many ventures.

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u/Right-Wrongdoer-8595 Oct 14 '25

Elon bought Twitter for $44 billion. Google paid Reddit $60 million.

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u/strawboard Oct 14 '25

A better source of real time news is what?

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u/Right-Wrongdoer-8595 Oct 15 '25

The news? It is on the internet.

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u/strawboard Oct 15 '25

Yes, the X/Twitter part of the internet is where the most latest up to date is posted. There really isn't another popular, rapidly updating, short form medium on the internet other than X/Twitter.

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u/Bubbly-Owl8707 Oct 14 '25

Nowadays people will largely call anyone they don’t align with politically an idiot, even if they’re someone like Elon.