“That’s just not a service we’re going to provide,” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said at the Paley International Council Summit in Menlo Park, Calif., on Thursday. “Other companies will build that.”
Altman explained the company’s decision to add more explicit sexual capabilities would require age verification and is part of an ethos to “treat adult users like adults.”
“You can already see it with some of these avatars and people leaning into the kind of sexbot, erotica direction,” Suleyman said Thursday. “This is very dangerous, and I think we should be making conscious decisions to avoid those kinds of things.”
OpenAI did not respond to Fortune’s request for comment; xAI responded: “Legacy Media Lies.”
Those outside the AI space have also criticized OpenAI and xAI for their decision to integrate more sexual content into their respective chatbots.
“Despite some of the narratives around building artificial general intelligence that will supercharge the economy, OpenAI is still trying to operate as a technology platform, and somewhat like a social media company,” Ji said. “There’s an interesting tension between the narratives that are being sold to investors and politicians … versus the things that are actually happening in the market.”
