OpenAI loosens ChatGPT’s guardrails for adults
Maria Garcia / implicator - OpenAI will let adults have erotic ChatGPT conversations by December—while facing a wrongful death lawsuit and fresh California AI regulations. The company claims new safety tools justify loosening restrictions. The age verification details remain unexpla…
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Trump admin pressured Facebook into removing ICE-tracking group
Jon Brodkin / arstechnica - Pam Bondi claims Facebook group was used to “dox and target” ICE agents
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OpenAI will let adults use ChatGPT for erotica starting in December
Ian Carlos Campbell / engadget - OpenAI plans to open the floodgates to more adult uses of ChatGPT starting in December, according to a new post from CEO Sam Altman. The company announced that it would add parental controls and automatic age detection features in September, and it seems …
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Policy rollback and moderation shifts
Provocative, tongue-in-cheek coverage
Straightforward erotica feature updates
All Other Stories
Back to Top / Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 2:20 pm / permalink 15124 / 15 stories in 4 months
Instagram is making all teen accounts ‘PG-13’
Emma Roth / theverge - Instagram is making a major update to teen accounts that will only allow them to view content similar to what you would see in a PG-13 movie. Under the new system, Instagram will continue to hide content containing nudity, sexual content, or suggestive po…
Back to Top / Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 7:20 am / permalink 15108 / 11 stories in 4 months
YouTube opens ‘second chance’ program to creators banned for misinformation
Jay Peters / theverge - YouTube is now giving some creators who were banned for spreading covid and election misinformation a chance to make a new channel, according to a blog post. Under political pressure, the company had said last month that it was going to set up this pilot …
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You Can’t Use Copyrighted Characters in OpenAI’s Sora Anymore and People Are Freaking Out
AJ Dellinger / gizmodo - Turns out a lot of people's creativity is limited to what someone else has already made.
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YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24.5 Million to settle lawsuit over suspended account
cnbc - YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit involving the suspension of President Donald Trump's account in 2021.
Back to Top / Monday, September 29, 2025, 6:21 pm / permalink 14905 / 9 stories in 5 months
X will appeal Indian court ruling allowing 'arbitrary takedown orders'
engadget - X is challenging an Indian court order it says would require it to comply with millions of takedown requests without due process. In a statement, the company said it was "deeply concerned" about the ruling, which allows police officers "to issue arbitrary…
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OpenAI’s teen safeguards arrive—adult users feel the dragnet
Robert Brown / implicator - OpenAI launched parental controls for teen ChatGPT users Monday—but also quietly routes emotional prompts from paying adults to more restrictive models without notice. The humanized design that drove adoption now creates safety risks the company is retrof…
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ChatGPT Parental Controls Rollout
Response to Teen Safety Tragedies
Step-by-Step Control Setup Guide
Unexpected Impact on Adult Users
Back to Top / Monday, September 29, 2025, 8:21 am / permalink 14887 / 15 stories in 5 months
Spotify is doing more to address AI 'slop' on its platform
Andre Revilla / engadget - Spotify has announced a set of policy changes surrounding AI-generated music and spam on its streaming platform. The company is helping to develop an industry standard for AI disclosure in music credits, alongside DDEX. It will be strengthening its approa…
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YouTube will reinstate accounts banned for spreading misinformation
Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - "YouTube values conservative voices on its platform and recognizes that these creators have extensive reach and play an important role in civic discourse," the company's legal counsel wrote.
Back to Top / Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 10:21 am / permalink 14835 / 7 stories in 5 months
Apple TV+ indefinitely delays its domestic extremism thriller 'The Savant'
Ian Carlos Campbell / engadget - Apple has delayed the release of its new series The Savant just three days before it was supposed to premiere on September 26, Deadline reports. The series follows an investigator, played by Jessica Chastain, who infiltrates a domestic extremist group in …
Back to Top / Tuesday, September 23, 2025, 7:20 pm / permalink 14828 / 3 stories in 5 months
YouTube Reverses COVID and Election Bans, Citing ‘Unacceptable’ Government Pressure
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Following a House Judiciary probe, Google will reinstate YouTube channels banned for COVID and election content, admitting to 'unacceptable' government pressure.The post YouTube Reverses COVID and Election Bans, Citing ‘Unacceptable’ Government Pressure a…
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