Comment by Retr0id
16 hours ago
Everyone's saying this is for advertising, but I don't think it is. It's so they can let ChatGPT sext with adults.
16 hours ago
Everyone's saying this is for advertising, but I don't think it is. It's so they can let ChatGPT sext with adults.
It’s worse than that.
They want to build “the scream room” from Frank Herbert’s _The Jesus Incident_.
There is immense power to wield over someone when you know what they did in the scream room.
Mmm juicy kompromat
Its for both; the loosened guardrails around sex and the advertising roll-out are both explicitly for logged-in adults, and the age prediction is how they determine the logged-in user is an “adult”.
Given that they have terrible data isolation, I would suspect that the biometrics will be used to identify people when they eventually release the alexa/google glasses system they are trying to work on.
That kind of context is super useful for making stored data relevant, and also selling shit to you.
Do you expect the data collected for age verification will be completely separate from the advertising apparatus? I would expect the incentives would align for this to enhance their advertising options.
I'll almost certainly get used for both, but I believe "adult content" is the primary motivator. If it was just for ads they wouldn't even bother announcing it as a "feature", they'd just do it.
Also:
"Users can check if safeguards have been added to their account and start this process at any time by going to Settings > Account."
> If it was just for ads they wouldn't even bother announcing it as a "feature", they'd just do it.
Its a feature for advertisers, and investors also wanna know. Did you think you are the customer?
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It would be a pretty massive GDPR breach if it wasn't, wouldn't it? All the biometrics is "special category" data which you can't play face and loose with.
Agreed, see https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-allow-mature-content...
Discussed here at the time,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604313 ("Chat-GPT becomes Sex-GPT for verified adults (twitter.com/sama)")
Exactly. Advertising will drive away users unless they are slowly trained into it, which will take time, time that Open AI doesn't have.
Meanwhile, the adult market is huge and sureshot revenue from a user base that is more likely to not mind the ads.