Source: SFGate
“Just a day after Gov. Gavin Newsom touted his signing of a series of bills to tighten restrictions on egregious AI chatbot interactions with minors, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman decided to announce the company’s newest version of its chatbot — one exclusively for ‘mature audiences’. Altman said that OpenAI will launch an adult-only version of ChatGPT at the end of the year, and specifically made sure to mention that it will allow erotica for ‘verified’ users. Elon Musk, as part of his company, xAi, previously launched his own erotica chatbot companion named ‘Ani’ this summer. The timing of the announcement comes a day after Newsom signed several AI regulation bills, including one that will require chatbots to establish protocols ‘to detect, remove, and respond to instances of suicide ideation users’.” (10/15/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/sam-altman-chatgpt-announcement-21101126.php