» Why Can’t ChatGPT Be Sexy? | Playboy investigates OpenAI's disastrous plans to become x-rated

Sam Altman’s idea of an “erotica” feature seemed riddled in uncertainty. Just a few months before the “erotica” feature announcement, Altman said on a podcast that he was proud of OpenAI for not getting “distracted” by adding features like a “sexbot avatar” to ChatGPT. In November, at a conference in San Francisco, he called the post promising it “one of my dumbest mistakes of the year.” This internal incoherence about “adult mode” suggests to Julie Carpenter, a researcher who studies human attachment to robots and AI, that the company is grappling with an issue bigger than itself.