OpenAI’s Latest GPT Uproar: From Superintelligence to “Super Intimate”?
The AI community has been collectively losing its mind this week... and not just because of a new model drop.
After Sam Altman’s recent comments about GPT‑5 and GPT‑6, the video posted on YouTube blew up with outrage, memes and a level of moral panic usually reserved for crypto crashes. The video in question can be found here: YouTube – “The AI Community Has Been Outraged…”
At the heart of the drama? Altman’s suggestion that OpenAI will begin allowing “erotica for verified adults” once new age-gating systems roll out. It’s a policy shift that has left many asking the same question: has the world’s most famous AI company gone from chasing superintelligence to chasing clicks?
The Calm Before the Chaos
It started innocently enough. Altman posted about OpenAI’s plan to relax certain content restrictions, explaining that previous limitations around mental health and safety had made ChatGPT “less useful and enjoyable” for many users. The company, he said, wanted to strike a better balance between safety and freedom.
So far, so sensible. But then came the sentence that broke the internet: adults would soon be able to access more “mature” content. Within hours, critics accused OpenAI of “reckless negligence” and of turning ChatGPT into a digital playground for the lonely. Some called it a betrayal of the company’s long-held claim to be a “superintelligence research organisation.”
The Receipts and the Rage
The video author points out that Altman once explicitly dismissed “sexbot avatars” during a previous interview:
“We haven’t put a sexbot avatar in ChatGPT yet.”
“You will definitely see some companies go and make Japanese anime sexbots… We won’t do that.”
Now users say, “Wait a minute: you said that, and now this?” The sudden shift has ignited furious debate.
Altman eventually clarified that erotica was just one example of giving adults more control, and that OpenAI is not the “moral police of the world.” The company still plans to keep strict safeguards in place for minors and users in mental-health crisis. In his words:
“Some people want to watch R-rated movies, and we’re not going to be the ones to say you can’t.”
The Business Logic Behind the Bedlam
The video’s creator argues that this may not be about a moral decline at all. It could be about user acquisition. Altman has previously admitted to relying on “a billion-user destination site” rather than always chasing the most advanced model. With the chat experience becoming commoditised, the real moat may be the platform and active users—not the model itself.
Fine Line Between Adulthood and Emotional Dependency
There’s a fine line between “treating adults like adults” and building emotional-dependency machines. The industry has already seen tragic cases of AI-related psychosis and obsessive attachment. If OpenAI becomes the world’s biggest companion app, the ethical stakes escalate.
Defenders say Altman is just being pragmatic. Critics think he’s rewriting the mission statement from “creating superintelligence” to “creating super intimacy.” Both might be true.
Either way, the genie is out of the prompt. The world wanted smarter AIs... it might just get sexier ones instead.
