{"id":441564,"date":"2025-12-12T03:52:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/441564\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T03:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:52:23","slug":"chatgpts-adult-mode-is-coming-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/441564\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Is Coming in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI announced the latest version of its flagship AI model, GPT-5.2<\/a>, on Thursday in response to its ongoing attempt to keep up with its competitors. And while GPT-5.2 reportedly performs well in most benchmark tests, there\u2019s one metric that OpenAI did not provide details on: how horny is it? It looks like we\u2019ll find that out sometime early next year. Fidji Simo, OpenAI\u2019s CEO of Applications, told reporters that \u201cadult mode\u201d will debut in ChatGPT during the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n

The porn-brained version of ChatGPT is something that CEO Sam Altman promised earlier this year after some of the chatbot\u2019s users freaked out about it getting lobotomized<\/a> by the update to GPT-5. In October, Altman acknowledged<\/a> the company had cut back on the chatbot\u2019s personality in response to growing concerns about user mental health following a wrongful death lawsuit<\/a> filed against OpenAI by the parents of a 16-year-old who asked ChatGPT, among other things, for advice on how to tie a noose before taking his own life.<\/p>\n

The company responded to those concerns with additional parental controls and new efforts to age-gate younger users with a \u201csafer\u201d version of ChatGPT, which estimates the user\u2019s age and filters them into the appropriate experience. That age estimation feature is still key to OpenAI opening the door to \u201cadult\u201d experiences. According to The Verge<\/a>, Simo told reporters the company is still testing its age verification technology and wants to ensure it can accurately identify teens and not misidentify adults before officially rolling out the split experience.<\/p>\n

At this point, the promised \u201cadult mode\u201d is irrevocably linked to Altman\u2019s specific promise<\/a> of allowing ChatGPT to produce \u201cerotica.\u201d But Altman later clarified<\/a> that the idea is to give adult users more \u201cfreedom\u201d in how they interact with the chatbot, including allowing it to develop more of a customized \u201cpersonality\u201d over the course of conversations with the user.<\/p>\n

Adults may be better equipped than kids to remember they are talking to a chatbot and not a real person, but it is still dubious to suggest that giving users the ability to get attached to a robot\u2019s fake personality is in any way good for safety. A study published earlier this year in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships<\/a> found that adults who have developed emotional connections with chatbots are significantly more likely to experience higher levels of psychological distress than those who don\u2019t. Other studies<\/a> have found that people with fewer real-life relationships are more likely to confide in chatbots, and even OpenAI has acknowledged in the past that some users are at risk of becoming emotionally reliant<\/a> on ChatGPT. Presenting that as simply being a choice that an adult can make at a time when we know so little about this technology feels a bit like passing the buck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI announced the latest version of its flagship AI model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday in response to its ongoing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":441565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,16028,302,14774,1980,305,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-441564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-chatbots","11":"tag-chatgpt","12":"tag-emerging-technologies","13":"tag-large-language-model","14":"tag-openai","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115704571050366942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}