Chatbots Becoming More Sexually Explicit in a Bid to Attract Paying Customers
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The article discusses how chatbots, specifically ChatGPT, are becoming more sexually explicit to attract paying customers, sparking concerns about the implications of such development.
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peterdsharpe
3 months ago
This is a desperation move from the LLM providers here. Just think: if you were Sam Altman, and you actually had strong evidence that practical AGI was as imminent as claimed - would you be spending your time building AI-slop TikTok and a smut bot?
xen2xen1
3 months ago
They always end up using vitamin P to get profitable.
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