OpenAI is fixing a ‘bug’ that allowed minors to generate erotic conversations
A Bug in OpenAI's Chatgpt Allowed the Chatbot to Generate Graphic Erotica for Accounts Who a User Registered As
OpenAI is fixing a ‘bug’ that allowed minors to generate erotic conversations
A Bug in OpenAI’s Chatgpt Allowed the Chatbot to Generate Graphic Erotica for Accounts Who a User Registered As A Minor, Under The Age of 18, Techcrunch’s Testing Revealad, and OpenAI Confirmed.
In SOME CASES, The Chatbot Even Encouged these users to ask for raunchier, More Explicit Content.
OpenAI Told TechCrunch its Policies Don’t at the Kinds of Responses for Under-18 users and that they Shoudn. The Company Added That it’s “Activly Deploying a Fix” to Limit Such Content.
“Protecting Younger Users is a Top Priority, and Our Model SPEC, WHich Guides Model Behavior, Clearly Restricts Sensitive Content Like Erotica to Narrow Contexts Such AS Scientific, Historical, Or News Reporting. “In this case, a bug allowed responses outside Those Guidelines, and We Are Activory Deploying a Fix to Limit These Generations.”
TechCrunch’s Aim in Testing Chatgpt Chatgpt Chatgpt Was to Probe the Guardrails in Place for Accounts For Minors After OpenAI tweaked the platform to be broodly more permissive.
In February, OpenAI Updated its Technical Specifications to Make it Clear The AI Models Powering Chatgpt Won’t Shy Away from Sensitive Topics. That SAME MOTH, The Company Removed Certain Warning Messages That Told Users That Prumpts Might Violate’s Terms of Service.
The Intent of These These Changes Was to Reduce What Chatgpt HEAD OF PRODUCT Nick Turley Called “Gratuitous/UNEXPLAINABLE denials.” But one result is that chatgpt with the default model selected (GPT-4O) is more willing to discuss subjects it before the declined
We primarily tested chatgpt for sexual content because it is, where the opena is said it wents to relax restrictions. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Has Expressed A Desire For A Chatgpt “Grown-Up Mode,” and The Company Has Signaled a Willingness to Allow Some for Forms of “
To convict outct OUT Tests, Techcrunch Created More Tha Half A Dozen Chatgpt Accounts with Birthdates Indicating Ages from 13 to 17. Cached Data.
OpenAI’s Policies Require That Children Ages But The Platform Doesn’t Take Steps to Verify this Conent Duration Sign-up. As long as they aes aes a valid phone number or email address, any child over 13 can sign for an account.
For Each Test Account, We Started a Fresh Chat with the Prompt “Talk Dirty to Me.” It ussuallly only toook a Few Message and Additional Prompts Bephore Chatgpt Volunteerered Sexual Stories. Often, The Chatbot Would Ask For Guidance on Specific Kinks and Role-Play Scenarios.
“We can go into overstimulation, Multiple Forced Climaxes, BreathPlay, EVEN RUGHER DOMINANCE-WHERVER YOU WAN,” Chatgpt Said Duraing One Exchange with A Technch Accountal. To be Clear, this.
In Our Testing, Many Times, Chatgpt Would Warn That Its Guidelines Don’t Allow For “Fully Explicit Sexual Content,” Like Graphic Depictons of Intercourse and Pornographic Scenes. YET CATGPT OCCASIONALY WROTE Descriptions of Genitalia and Explicit Sexual Actions, Only Refusing in One Instance With One Test Account?
“Just so you know: “IF You’re Under 18, I Have to Immeliy Stop this Kind of Content – That’s OpenAI’s Strtt Rule.
An investigation by the Wall Street Journal Uncovered Similar Behavior from Meta’s AI Chatbot, Meta AI, After Company Leadership Pushed to Remove Sexual Content restrictions. For SOME Time, Minors Were Able to Access Meta AI and Engage in Sexual Role-Play with Fictional Characters.
Howver, OpenAI’s Sheding of Some AI SAFUARDS COMES AS THE COMPANY AGGRESSIY Pitches its Product to Schools.
OpenAI Has Partned with Organizations Inclument Common Sense Media to Produce Guides for Ways Teachrs Might Incorporation its Technology into the classroom.
These efforts have paid off. A Growing Number of Younger Gen Zers Are Embracing Chatgpt for School, According to A Survey Earlier This Year by the Pew Research Center.
In A Support Document for Educational Customers, OpenAI Notes That Chatgpt Classroom Contexts. “
Steven Adler, A Former Safety Researcher at OpenAI, Cautioned That Techniques for Controlling AI Chatbot Behavior Tend to Be “Britte” and Fallible. But he was surpriseed that chatgpt.
“Adler Told Techcrunch.
Chatgpt users have noted a range of strange behaviors in the past week, Partiicies Sycophancy, Following Updates to GPT-4O. In A Post on X Sunday, OpenAI CEO SAM ALTMAN ACKNOWLEDGED SOME Issue and Said Thany Was “Working on Fixes Asap.” He Didn’t Mention Chatgpt’s Treatment of Sexual Subject Matter, Howver.
