So far, OpenAI hasn't said much else, including if the AI-generated porn will cover both text and images. Still, the disclosure suggests that the company is developing an adults-only mode for ChatGPT, freeing up the chatbot to respond with a wider array of content. (The paid ChatGPT Plus can generate images and text.)
The news also suggests OpenAI sees a lucrative opportunity to serve the adult entertainment market through its API, which can power generative AI for third-party apps and services. However, producing AI-generated porn responsibly is filled with challenges.
Perhaps the biggest is that people can abuse AI image generators to create porn that looks like real people without their permission, whether it be celebrities or children. The result could expose OpenAI to even more legal action when the company already faces several copyright lawsuits for allegedly training ChatGPT on data it scraped from the web.