“That’s the thing that we have to focus on—kids being preyed on on the internet by AI,” the father of three said.(Image: Newsmax)
Vice President JD Vance said that he would prefer if Sam Altman’s OpenAI did not venture into “increasingly weird porn.”
“I think it was from Sam Altman of Open AI who said that basically they’re going to start using AI to introduce erotica and porn and things like that”, Vance said during an interview Thursday on Newsmax’s The Record with Greta Van Susteren.
He said AI is “still in many cases very dumb” in response to a question about the future of AI and how it might impact jobs.
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“We should be trying to maximize as much of the good and minimize as much of the bad,” the 41-year-old vice president argued.
Altman announced on Tuesday that ChatGPT would operate with fewer restrictions and that starting December, “we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.”
“If AI is helping us find new cures for new diseases, that’s great. If it’s helping us come up with increasingly weird porn, that’s bad,” he said.
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“That’s the thing that we have to focus on—kids being preyed on on the internet by AI,” the father of three said.
OpenAI implemented strict content restrictions after a teenage boy committed suicide and allegedly took instructions from ChatGPT.
But Altman said on Tuesday that OpenAI would “safely relax” most restrictions now that it has new tools. Following backlash, he clarified that “we will still not allow things that cause harm to others, and we will treat users who are having mental health crises very differently from users who are not.”
Just a month before approving “erotica” on ChatGPT, Altman had proudly noted that OpenAI had resisted implementing features that might “boost growth and revenue,” such as a “sex-bot avatar.”
Van Susteren told Vance that she had prepped by consulting a chatbot for advice.
She said the AI told her, “Keep it punchy, [Vance] will get offensive quick.”
“I don’t even know what that means,” Vance said, laughing loudly.
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