{“lastseen”:”2025-11-03T17:04:53″,”description”:”_This week on the Lock and Code podcast \u2026_\\n\\nIn the final, cold winter months of the year, ChatGPT could be heating up. \\n\\nOn October 14, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the \\”restrictions\\” that his company previously placed on their flagship product, ChatGPT, would be removed, allowing, perhaps, for \\”erotica\\” in the future. \\n\\n\\”We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues,\\” Altman wrote on the platform X. \\”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.\\”\\n\\nThis wasn’t the first time that OpenAI or its executive had addressed mental health. \\n\\nOn August 26, OpenAI published a blog titled \\”Helping people when they need it most,\u201d which explored new protections for users, including stronger safeguards for long conversations, better recognition of people in crisis, and easier access to outside emergency services and even family and friends. The blog alludes to \\”recent heartbreaking cases of people using ChatGPT in the midst of acute crises,\\” but it never explains what, explicitly, that means. \\n\\nBut on the very same day the blog was posted, OpenAI was sued for the alleged role that ChatGPT played in the suicide of a 16-year-old boy. According to chat logs disclosed in the lawsuit, the teenager spoke openly to the AI chatbot about suicide, he shared that he wanted to leave a noose in his room, and he even reportedly received an offer to help write a suicide note.\\n\\nBizarrely, this tragedy plays a role in the larger story, because it was Altman himself who tied the company’s mental health campaign to its possible debut of erotic content. \\n\\n\\u003e \\”In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our \u2018treat adult users like adults\u2019 principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.\\”\\n\\nWhat \u201cerotica\u201d entails is unclear, but one could safely assume it involves all the capabilities currently present in ChatGPT, through generative chat, of course, but also image generation. \\n\\nToday, on the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, we speak with Deb Donig, on faculty at the UC Berkeley School of Information, about the ethics of AI erotica, the possible accountability that belongs to users and to OpenAI, and why intimacy with an AI-power chatbot feels so strange.\\n\\n\\u003e \\”A chat bot offers, we might call it, ‘intimacy’s performance,’ without any of its substance, so you get all of the linguistic markers of connection, but no possibility for, for example, rejection. That’s part of the human experience of a relationship.\\”\\n\\nTune in today to listen to the full conversation. \\n\\n_how notes and credits:_ \\n \\nIntro Music: \u201cSpellbound\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) \\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License \\nhttp:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/ \\nOutro Music: \u201cGood God\u201d by Wowa (unminus.com)\\n\\n* * *\\n\\n**Listen up\u2014Malwarebytes doesn\u2019t just talk cybersecurity, we provide it.**\\n\\nProtect yourself from online attacks that threaten your identity, your files, your system, and your financial well-being with our exclusive offer for Malwarebytes Premium Security for Lock and Code listeners.”,”published”:”2025-11-03T15:30:23″,”modified”:”2025-11-03T15:30:23″,”type”:”malwarebytes”,”title”:”Would you sext ChatGPT? (Lock and Code S06E22)”,”source”:””,”references”:””,”id”:”MALWAREBYTES:A59EA56F2B09DC8D032501FBD79ED879″,”bulletinFamily”:”blog”,”cwe”:null,”cvelist”:[],”sourceData”:””,”sourceHref”:””,”cvss”:{“score”:0,”severity”:”NONE”,”vector”:”NONE”,”version”:”NONE”},”cvss2″:{},”cvss3″:{“version”:””,”vectorString”:””,”baseScore”:0,”baseSeverity”:””,”attackVector”:””,”attackComplexity”:””,”privilegesRequired”:””,”userInteraction”:””,”scope”:””,”confidentialityImpact”:””,”integrityImpact”:””,”availabilityImpact”:””,”cvssV3″:{“version”:””,”vectorString”:””,”baseScore”:0,”baseSeverity”:””,”attackVector”:””,”attackComplexity”:””,”privilegesRequired”:””,”userInteraction”:””,”scope”:””,”confidentialityImpact”:””,”integrityImpact”:””,”availabilityImpact”:””}},”href”:”https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/podcast\/2025\/11\/would-you-sext-chatgpt-lock-and-code-s06e22″,”category_name”:”News”,”post_link”:””,”product”:””,”version”:””,”vendor”:””,”ai_description”:””,”ai_severity”:””,”ai_vendor”:””,”ai_product”:””,”ai_version”:””,”ai_score”:0}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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