Sam Schechner

It's a really tough commercial fight.

And to the extent that you are telling users, no, no, we're not going to give you this kind of content,

Users are upset about what they call unnecessary refusals.

You know, when a chatbot with high guardrails says, no, I won't do this, no, I won't do that.

So, you know, this is important for them on that level.

He was asked if there were decisions that he had made that were, quote, best for the world, but not best for winning.

Well, we haven't put a sexbot avatar in ChatGPT yet.

He indicated that it seemed pretty clear that Erotica would probably boost revenue and growth, that it would be sticky for users.

But he actually said that he's proud of how little the company gets distracted by those kinds of temptations.

And then he just sort of added that they were going to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have more personality.

And, oh yeah, kicker, we're just going to allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

Boom.

Mic drop.

End of tweet.

You have a half dozen people who come from backgrounds like cognitive neuroscience, psychology, human-computer interaction, and the company says that they're still responsible for the decisions they make, but that they were going to turn to this council to help understand what would be healthiest for users.

When they met in January, they had been told shortly before that the company was actually moving forward with this product.

And people familiar with the matter tell us that they were unanimous and angry that the company was going ahead despite understanding that there were some significant risks.

And they are encouraging the company to reconsider.

And I think that's why this meeting got so heated.

So the danger here and the debate was over whether or not younger users would stumble into an erotic relationship with ChatGPT.