First delayed, now dropped. Less than a month after delaying work on its “adult mode” for ChatGPT, OpenAI has decided to shelve the controversial model “indefinitely,” according to a report from the Financial Times.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly decided to cut back on “side quests” and focus on its core products of ChatGPT, the coding tool Codex and the agentic AI browser Atlas, along with some other AI projects in development.
Another one of those apparent “side quests” was the video generation tool and app Sora, which OpenAI said it would discontinue earlier this week.
ChatGPT’s adult mode would have enabled users to have text chats with adult themes, but it was not supposed to generate erotic audio, images or videos. The erotic chatbot received pushback from people within and outside of OpenAI, who said it could not safely prevent minors from accessing it nor contain exploitative content. OpenAI said earlier this month
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