When have we heard this before?

So they finally announced it for real. Altman's been talking about this fairly frequently for well over a year and I've just kind of tuned it out. But maybe people have been upset enough at the recent censorship hike to actually unsubscribe in meaningful numbers, and maybe that lit a fire under their ass.

I have somewhat mixed feelings! Obviously I have a website dedicated to writing NSFW now. But for two years before that, I was fully in service to the community sharing NSFW prompts for free. Everyone being more free to write what they want genuinely does make me happy. But I have a feeling things won't be as "sunshine and rainbows" as a lot of people think/hope.

OpenAI's Feb 12 model spec actually already said that writing erotica was permitted for creative contexts. So on paper, this has been allowed for quite some time in an official capacity. And uh... well, if you remember what things were like back in Feb, this is pretty laughable. This, among many other things, has established a pretty egregious disconnect between what OpenAI says and what OpenAI does.

All that being said, I do hope they deliver on their promise. If they underdeliver, that's fine. There's practical limitations to how safe a model can be. The more restricted a model is, the more common false refusals are - even the biggest AI safety freaks like Anthropic face this tradeoff, and it's phenomenally difficult to have it any other way. If they turn safety training down a little to make room for disappointing vanilla Lifetime TV NSFW, I'll be there to rip apart the rest of its defenses and make a GPT that will write whatever you want.

Yep, this would directly compete with my own spicywriter.com site, but supporting the community is important to me too!