Sam Schechner

Not quickly enough.

I mean, obviously, I should have thought that.

Because all tech eventually or almost immediately is used for sex.

Sex and tech actually have gone together for quite a while.

When you look at new technologies, almost one of the first things people do with it is create porn.

You know, that's true with the first cameras.

And that's been true with other tech innovations along the way.

The rise of personal phones.

You have phone sex lines, you have video and television, and you have porn movies.

And early growth in the internet certainly was driven in part by pornography.

And it remains a huge business.

One of them actually warned the company that if they move forward, that they risked creating what that person described as a sexy suicide coach.

In early 2021, they were working with a company that was operating a Choose Your Own Adventure game that was powered behind the scenes by OpenAI's AI models.

And when OpenAI got to look at what the traffic was coming through, they noticed that a large portion of the traffic for AI Dungeon was, as you say, NSFW.

Yeah.

It would steer users into themes of violent sexual exploitation, sometimes without the users even bringing it up.

And, you know, sometimes you would talk to AI Dungeon with a kind of tame sexual theme, and AI Dungeon would escalate it into much more intense sexual exchange.

But this wasn't the only time this came up.

Before there was ChatGPT, they even had a clunky interface for developers.

People familiar with the matter said that sometimes it would insert sexual themes into conversations that people weren't seeking.