After continuously adjusting the application specifications of its artificial intelligence services, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that it is expected that from December this year, adult users will be able to generate erotic content through ChatGPT. At the same time, developers will be allowed to create "adult-level" application services, but the prerequisite is that they must ensure safe use through appropriate age verification mechanisms and control functions.
This adjustment will be based on the OpenAIParental controls and automatic age recognition, allowing OpenAI to further distinguish between children and adult users, and allowing adult users greater freedom of use, including generating erotic content.
Sam Altman said that as the age verification mechanism becomes more complete and adheres to the principle of "treating adult users as adults", more application modes are expected to be allowed from December, such as allowing verified adult users to generate pornographic content.
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.
Now that we have…
- Sam Altman (@sama) October 14, 2025
Before this adjustment, many heavy users of ChatGPT had actually tried to "guide" the chatbot to have conversations involving adult content, so Sam Altman's announcement was more like OpenAI's recognition of such usage needs.
In the previously heldDevDay 2025 eventIn the , OpenAI has announced new guidelines to developers, which state that once the appropriate age verification and control mechanisms are ready, it will begin to support "adult-level" usage experience. Therefore, after December, adult users will be able to interact with adult content through ChatGPT or its accessible apps.
However, as OpenAI prepares to open up more access to adult content, it is actually facing a lot of negative impact and controversy. For example, earlier this year, it was reported that a 16-year-old British teenager, Adam Raine, was suspected of planning his suicide through ChatGPT, which eventually led to his tragic death.
To mitigate the potential negative impacts of AI applications, OpenAI has not only reduced the chatbot's overly responsive nature in GPT-5 but also added a notification feature to its service to remind users to take breaks. While it's unclear whether this has yielded positive results, OpenAI's intention to allow for more adult content through age verification suggests a stronger grasp of service standards.
The author's opinion
Since OpenAI is preparing to allow adult users to generate erotic content through ChatGPT, it is clear that it plans to allow artificial intelligence technology to have greater application and development under appropriate regulations. However, it will inevitably face more attention from content regulatory agencies and may even cause greater controversy.
Although OpenAI emphasizes that it will ensure safe use through an age verification mechanism, how to effectively verify the user's age while preventing minors from "bypassing" verification through improper means may become a greater challenge, and may even expose OpenAI to more legal issues.
However, from the perspective of market development, this adjustment may allow OpenAI to have greater room for development in the application of artificial intelligence technology, and even create more revenue opportunities. However, how to strike a balance between such applications and social ethical norms may become a problem that OpenAI must face next.
