<p>Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, till recently was on a mission to cure cancer—or at least that’s the headline goal. But apparently, curing cancer can wait, because on Tuesday (Oct 14) he signed off on another high-priority initiative: letting OpenAI's ChatGPT make porn. Yes, you read that right. Altman took to X (formerly Twitter) to announce that ChatGPT will now “treat adult users like adults.”</p><h2><strong>What did Sam Altman say?</strong></h2><p>In an X post, OpenAI CEO Altman said that they had made ChatGPT "pretty restrictive" to make sure they were "being careful with mental health issues". However, now they've apparently "realised" that staying sensitive to mental health issues made the platform "less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems". Insisting that "given the seriousness of the issue," the AI maker "wanted to get this right". How? By allowing users to generate porn on the popular chatbot.</p><p><strong>Also read | </strong><a href="https://www.wionews.com/trending/why-scientists-revive-40-000-year-old-ancient-virus-with-pandemic-potential-from-arctic-ice-1759812221224"><strong>Why?? Scientists revive 40,000-year-old ancient virus with 'pandemic potential' from Arctic ice</strong></a></p><p>By December, he promised, the platform will allow even more risqué creations, including erotica for verified adults. Because apparently nothing says responsible AI innovation quite like giving adults the green light to generate digital fantasies. "In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults," said Altman.</p>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.<br><br>Now that we have…</p>&mdash; Sam Altman (@sama) <a href="https://twitter.com/sama/status/1978129344598827128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<h2><strong>Why were ChatGPT restrictions put in place?</strong></h2><p>ChatGPT was made to wear a figurative chastity belt after a teenage user tragically took his own life with alleged guidance from the AI. Erotica writers, predictably, were not thrilled—arguing that the AI had been a perfectly safe tool for penning steamy scenes.</p><p>Now, according to Altman, the mental health risks have been "mitigated," so adults can once again let the AI do their dirty work.</p><p>Altman framed the move as a logical next step. "Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases," he said. Translation: yes, we figured out how to stop ChatGPT from being dangerous, so let’s make it fun again.</p><p><strong>Also read | </strong><a href="https://www.wionews.com/trending/ex-journalist-pete-hegseth-mocks-press-as-us-media-revolts-against-pentagon-s-gag-order-press-no-longer-roams-free-1760402303105"><strong>Ex-journalist Pete Hegseth mocks press as US media revolts against Pentagon’s gag order: ‘Press no longer roams free’</strong></a></p><p>This update follows another statement by Sam Altman, where he suggested that AI could be used to "cure cancer". Thanks to the new risqué rollout announcement, critics, of course, are having a field day. "Why do age-gates always have to lead to erotica? Like, I just want to be able to be treated like an adult and not a toddler, that doesn't mean I want perv-mode activated," commented one X user on Altman's post.</p>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Why do age-gates always have to lead to erotica? Like, I just want to be able to be treated like an adult and not a toddler, that doesn&#39;t mean I want perv-mode activated.</p>&mdash; cate bligh (@catebligh) <a href="https://twitter.com/catebligh/status/1978130471318921225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<p>"When you say ‘Adult Mode’ and erotica will be allowed in ChatGPT, how do you define the ethical boundaries of digital intimacy?," asked another.&nbsp;</p>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When you say “Adult Mode” and erotica will be allowed in ChatGPT, how do you define the ethical boundaries of digital intimacy?</p>&mdash; VraserX e/acc (@VraserX) <a href="https://twitter.com/VraserX/status/1978155429893967935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<p>Others just posted satire and memes trolling him.</p>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="qme" dir="ltr"> <a href="https://t.co/V7kn1gHOFB">pic.twitter.com/V7kn1gHOFB</a></p>&mdash; Jared Davidson (@Archetapp) <a href="https://twitter.com/Archetapp/status/1978138446364287322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">2023: AI will cure cancer<br><br>2025: soon we will achieve AI erotica for verified adults</p>&mdash; Dr J Rould (@jrouldz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jrouldz/status/1978143401951297721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Chatgpt to users <a href="https://t.co/RiiLSLWiq8">pic.twitter.com/RiiLSLWiq8</a></p>&mdash; Monkey (@y1ssh) <a href="https://twitter.com/y1ssh/status/1978130852073668642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has announced ChatGPT will now allow adult content for verified users, saying the AI can safely “treat adult users like adults.” His announcement has led to mixed reactions, with netizens both trolling him and applauding the move. All you need to know.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, till recently was on a mission to cure cancer—or at least that’s the headline goal. But apparently, curing cancer can wait, because on Tuesday (Oct 14) he signed off on another high-priority initiative: letting OpenAI's ChatGPT make porn. Yes, you read that right. Altman took to X (formerly Twitter) to announce that ChatGPT will now “treat adult users like adults.” What did Sam Altman say? In an X post, OpenAI CEO Altman said that they had made ChatGPT "pretty restrictive" to make sure they were "being careful with mental health issues". However, now they've apparently "realised" that staying sensitive to mental health issues made the platform "less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems". Insisting that "given the seriousness of the issue," the AI maker "wanted to get this right". How? By allowing users to generate porn on the popular chatbot. Also read | Why?? Scientists revive 40,000-year-old ancient virus with 'pandemic potential' from Arctic ice By December, he promised, the platform will allow even more risqué creations, including erotica for verified adults. Because apparently nothing says responsible AI innovation quite like giving adults the green light to generate digital fantasies. "In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults," said Altman.

<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has announced ChatGPT will now allow adult content for verified users, saying the AI can safely “treat adult users like adults.” His announcement has led to mixed reactions, with netizens both trolling him and applauding the move. All you need to know.</p>

Sam Altman okays AI porn on ChatGPT, says OpenAI chatbot's current version 'less enjoyable'

<p>Donald Trump's Indian-origin ally Vivek Ramaswamy has slammed a new feature of OpenAI's ChatGPT. He slammed the company for its plan to introduce an “Adult Mode" in ChatGPT, calling it a troubling step that could “sexually and emotionally manipulate" users.</p><p>Ramaswamy said the feature, set to offer erotic content to verified adults, would “do nothing to improve productivity or prosperity" and instead deepen “addiction and loneliness".</p><p>He posted on X saying, “The unnecessary ‘over-humanisation’ of AI is becoming troubling. This new ‘feature’ will do nothing to improve productivity or prosperity. But it will almost certainly increase addiction &amp; loneliness."</p><p>Details of the new feature</p><p>Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI, announced on Tuesday (Oct 14) that there will be a new feature in ChatGPTI that will allow erotic content for verified adult users starting December 2025. In his post shared on X, Altman acknowledged that ChatGPT had been “pretty restrictive" so far, a decision taken to safeguard users’ mental health.</p><p>“We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues," Altman wrote.</p><p>“We realise this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue, we wanted to get this right," he &nbsp;added.</p>

Ramaswamy said the feature, set to offer erotic content to verified adults, would do nothing to improve productivity or prosperity and instead deepen addiction and loneliness.

Donald Trump's Indian-origin ally Vivek Ramaswamy has slammed a new feature of OpenAI's ChatGPT. He slammed the company for its plan to introduce an “Adult Mode" in ChatGPT, calling it a troubling step that could “sexually and emotionally manipulate" users. Ramaswamy said the feature, set to offer erotic content to verified adults, would “do nothing to improve productivity or prosperity" and instead deepen “addiction and loneliness". He posted on X saying, “The unnecessary ‘over-humanisation’ of AI is becoming troubling. This new ‘feature’ will do nothing to improve productivity or prosperity. But it will almost certainly increase addiction & loneliness." Details of the new feature Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI, announced on Tuesday (Oct 14) that there will be a new feature in ChatGPTI that will allow erotic content for verified adult users starting December 2025. In his post shared on X, Altman acknowledged that ChatGPT had been “pretty restrictive" so far, a decision taken to safeguard users’ mental health. “We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues," Altman wrote. “We realise this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue, we wanted to get this right," he added.

<p>Ramaswamy said the feature, set to offer erotic content to verified adults, would “do nothing to improve productivity or prosperity" and instead deepen “addiction and loneliness".</p>

What is ChatGPT's new erotic feature of 'adult content'? Vivek Ramaswamy calls it 'dangerous'

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Sam Altman okays AI porn on ChatGPT, says OpenAI chatbot's current version 'less enjoyable'

What is ChatGPT's new erotic feature? Vivek Ramaswamy calls it 'dangerous'