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actual quote from the OpenAI Expert Council on Well-Being and AI

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/16/openai-advisor-adult-mode-risks-becoming-sexy-suicide-coach/ - blog post 

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CONTENT WARNING: this episode discusses sexual chatbots and their horrifying failure modes, though with no explicit detail.

Sources:

• OpenAI's Bid to Allow X-Rated Talk Is Freaking Out Its Own Advisers https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-adult-mode-chatgpt-f9e5fc1a
• We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues https://x.com/sama/status/1978129344598827128
• Ok this tweet about upcoming changes to ChatGPT blew up on the erotica point much more than I thought it was going to! https://x.com/sama/status/1978539332215681076
• If it's allowed in an R-rated movie, it's allowed in @Grok Imagine https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2031989543529038103

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• ChatGPT sales are flat — so Altman offers OpenAI adult chat https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/17/chatgpt-sales-are-flat-so-altman-offers-openai-adult-chat/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzFVuQl7xp8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
• Grok generates bikini pics of children — UK, US oddly powerless https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/09/grok-generates-bikini-pics-of-children-uk-us-oddly-powerless/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evezPiGyTas&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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