OpenAI's own advisers call ChatGPT erotica a "sexy suicide coach"

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OpenAI's handpicked council of mental health advisers unanimously told the company not to launch sexually explicit chat in ChatGPT. The company is moving forward anyway.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the well-being advisory council — psychologists and neuroscientists assembled by OpenAI after the first known ChatGPT-linked suicide of a minor, the Sewell Setzer III case in October — warned in January that AI-powered erotica could foster unhealthy emotional dependence and that minors would inevitably find ways into sex chats. — Read the rest

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