ChatGPT's porn rollout raises concerns over safety and ethics

28 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by haritha-j
(observer.co.uk)

13 Comments

Proofread0592

8 hours ago

It seems like if ChatGPT had literally any other way to turn a profit, they would have done it before resorting to this. Kind of fees like this is their last ditch effort to show investors that they can somehow become profitable.

x0x0

7 hours ago

Same. If chatgpt actually could do what they claim, would they be wanking (heh) around with erotica and job boards, or would they be selling $5k/mo subscriptions that replace junior employees? The answer is obvious.

samsullivan

10 hours ago

why do we insist on bringing the worst tech from sci-fi to reality? is our collective intelligence still not enough to thwart the social and market dynamics?

anon7000

3 hours ago

No, our collective intelligence is not smarter than our base instincts and biological reward systems.

q3k

9 hours ago

line must go up

torginus

9 hours ago

personally, I would prefer to miss out on ai-powered degeneracy, if the price is that ai companies will forever store all the stuff i generated, attached to my name

taylorlapeyre

10 hours ago

Sex is not like other subjects, it is peculiarly liable to harm, obsess, distract us. Sexual content is uniquely powerful in its ability to reduce human beings to objects for use, and having the ability to generate endless amounts of it completely privately is a very dangerous power to have. I worry about what it will do to us to have this technology, and I worry that OpenAI is treating this subject with too little concern.

RiverCrochet

8 hours ago

> Sexual content is uniquely powerful in its ability to reduce human beings to objects for use

Incorrect. The modern industrial revolution and most wartime militaries demonstrate far more ability to do this.

> and having the ability to generate endless amounts of it completely privately is a very dangerous power to have.

I mean, anyone can pick up some artistic skill and do this without a computer. Everyone really can have this "very dangerous power" if they want to. Your statement is only valid if sex or pictures/text of sex is intrinsically harmful, which is untrue.

idontwantthis

6 hours ago

Are they creating God or are they creating an ad serving porn machine?

I don’t see how the answer can be both.