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Despite it's promise to ensure that its AI benefits all of humanity, OpenAI announced last week lighter restrictions regarding adult or erotic content on its chatbot. The company defended its decision by stating it would enforce some age restrictions similar to rating systems for identifying age-appropriate content in movies.

KQED asks, Is this the future we want?

“Comparing content moderation of chatbot interactions with movie ratings is not really useful,” wrote Irina Raicu, director of the Internet Ethics program. “It downplays both the nature and the extent of the problems that we’re seeing when people get more and more dependent on and influenced by chatbot ‘relationships.’”

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by KQED.