Artificial-intelligence tech giant OpenAI has announced plans to introduce sexually explicit material for its ChatGPT AI-based chatbot later this year — a move that a conservative advocacy group says risks introducing “real mental health harms from synthetic intimacy” without appropriate safeguards.

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation issued a statement calling on OpenAI to reverse its plan to allow “erotica” on ChatGPT. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X Tuesday that in December, “as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our ‘treat adult users like adults’ principle, we will allow even more [kinds of content], like erotica for verified adults” on ChatGPT.

According to Altman, the company originally made ChatGPT “pretty restrictive to make sure we were bei

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