According to the Financial Times, OpenAI will suspend indefinitely the development of the “adult” model of ChatGPT.
For the first time in October last year, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altmann introduced the “Adult model” programme, which has generated considerable controversy among the STD and OpenAI internal staff. In one case, the function was postponed several times. The “adult model” is just another “several line mission” that OpenAi has abandoned in the past week, and it has been reported previously that OpenAi is integrating computing resources to focus on its core business. On Tuesday this week, OpenAI announced that it would lower the priority of the “immediate billing” feature in ChatGPT, which is designed to turn chat robots into portals to line shopping sites for users. On Wednesday, the company unexpectedly announced that it would close its AI video generator, Sora. Since its launch in 2024, Sora has suffered from the disease of causing a large number of “AI garbage”.
The above changes occurred about a week after the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI would undergo a “significant strategic shift”, in which it was reported that OpenAI would exclude interference and focus on core business: business users and programmers. Why did OpenAI choose to focus on the main business at this time node? This is due to the pressure of the competition, Anthropic, who has successively issued a series of codes and business tools over the past few months, thereby attracting a large number of users. The two companies also had an open dispute over the Pentagon contract, which appeared to have ended with OpenAI ‘ s victory. Three weeks ago, OpenAI announced a $200 million agreement with the United States Department of Defense, with which Anthropic is currently in legal dispute.
In short, if recent developments illustrate anything, the future of artificial intelligence may be more about business and war than about pornography and memes.
