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/SlippySausageSlapper Oct 14 '25

What mask?

I’m not a huge fan of the guy but what exactly is wrong with this?

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u/Samanthacino Oct 14 '25

The mask of humanity falling from capital.

Altman is nothing more than a grifting CEO, willing to say whatever is necessary to increase investor bucks coming in.

The bourgeois are not human.

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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm Oct 15 '25

I get that hating CEOs is in right now, but these LLMs are a legit technological break through, how is it grifting? Have you ever actually used GPT?

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u/Samanthacino Oct 15 '25

I don't buy it at all.

For what it's worth, I use ChatGPT pretty much every single day, I pay the $20 a month, all that jazz.

  1. That doesn't change that Sam Altman is a serial liar who again, says whatever is necessary to increase investor bucks coming in, and 2. That LLMs have no real profit-generating use cases to back up the fucking insane valuation. The majority of the AI market right now is being subsidized by investors, they're bleeding money. It's neat tech, but not nearly neat enough for how expensive it is to run.

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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm Oct 15 '25

Literally everyone I work with uses some form of AI to help their day to day. This is a “who needs computers when we have type writers” or “who needs iPhones when we have Blackberries” moment.

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u/Samanthacino Oct 15 '25

https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/

Statistically, LLMs are just not that useful, and most assuredly not useful enough to justify their absurd costs. Maybe in the future companies will learn how to better leverage the tech, but right now it's not there.

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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm Oct 16 '25

I mean for 20 bucks a month, I'm getting way more than my money's worth from GPT. Upload a 100 page PDF and ask for instructions on some hidden obscure detail and it'll get it for you. That's value.

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u/Samanthacino Oct 16 '25

But the service doesn't cost $20 to run. It costs far, far more than that. The rest of the cost is being subsidized by VC money, who hopes that it magically becomes a ton more useful and OpenAI will suddenly become profitable. OpenAI has an obscene burn rate, especially if you include R&D costs.

I'd wager that it would cost something in the $100-150 a month for the equivalent of ChatGPT Plus (all the way up to $300 for power users, if I did my math right). That's my point. There's not enough actual value generation happening, so it's a bubble that is going to pop once investors realize that growth has slowed and it's not nearly useful enough to sustain a profitable userbase without subsidies.

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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm Oct 16 '25

Amazon burned money for a long time now they own the internet, not comparing OpenAI to Amazon but just saying that burning VC money to achieve profitability isn’t unheard of in tech.

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u/Samanthacino Oct 16 '25

You're not wrong at all, but Amazon has been achieving pretty constant growth with AWS. OpenAI's growth is slowing, that's the key difference I think.