OpenAI’s adult mode will reportedly be smutty, not pornographic
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OpenAI is developing an "adult mode" for ChatGPT that will allow users to generate text conversations with adult themes, described as "smut" rather than pornography. The feature will initially support only text and will not generate images, voice, or video content. OpenAI claims to have reduced "serious mental health issues" in its AI model enough to safely relax safety restrictions (the guardrails that prevent the AI from producing certain types of content) for this feature.
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/895130/openai-chatgpt-adult-mode-text-smut-written-erotica
First tracked: March 16, 2026 at 08:00 AM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%