Australia’s eSafety commissioner has expressed concern over plans to allow ChatGPT to generate on-demand explicit content by the end of the year as OpenAI pushes to compete with a similar capability from xAI’s Grok chatbot.

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said in a post on Wednesday that it would roll out age-gating for ChatGPT more fully in December, allowing it to “treat adults like adults”, which in his estimation includes the generation of erotica. He did not clarify whether this includes video, photo or text generation, or whether it would be locked behind a paid tier.

But eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant said chatbots are already being used to serve sexual content and that current efforts to restrict their use to adults were not sufficient. She said the watchdog would not

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