So many are concerned about AI and its impact on generations to come, and rightly so. A couple of terms you should be aware of before we get started.
- The “open” in openAI (ChatGPT) stands for open source. Open source is a model of software development where the source code is made publicly accessible, allowing anyone to use, modify, and distribute it.
- AGI stands for artificial general intelligence (not narrow AI like we have now). It’s a type of artificial intelligence that can understand, learn, and apply its intelligence to any intellectual task that a human being can.
Maybe you don’t read a lot of tech related material. Or maybe you don’t care so much about where AI is going? My typical “in the middle on everything,” stance means that I do care. It also means that I stop supporting actions/products/people at a certain point when I think they/it have gone too far or that I’m not getting the full truth.
That brings me to ChatGPT (OpenAI) — check out the timeline:
- 2015: Launch as nonprofit promising “AGI for all humanity” → get donations & top talent taking pay cuts “for the mission”
- 2019: Create for-profit arm, sell to Microsoft for $13B, stop open sourcing anything
- 2023: Realize models hitting diminishing returns, training costs exploding to $10B+ 2024: Time to lock down every GPU deal to block competitors, become “too big to fail”
- 2025: Convert to full for-profit — launch mission abandoned (nonprofit gets just 20% equity)
- December 2025: Erotica mode launches
I’ll let you draw your own conclusions – you ok with this?
On October 14, 2025, its CEO Sam Altman announced “erotica mode” for verified adult users, rolling out in December 2025 as part of age-gating and a “treat adults like adults” policy—allowing mature content like erotic text generation. This was timed perfectly with the nonprofit conversion completion — there’s no oversight from “benefit all humanity” to porn bot pipeline.
If adults want to create artificial porn, I don’t care. What I do care is that OpenAI’s business model sure looks like a masterclass in bait-and-switch funding. I care when people — you and me — are tricked into believing one thing so we offer support, only to realize we were manipulated.
Now you know: Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic openly admit they don’t understand the “why” behind their models’ decisions—leading to unpredictable behaviors like hallucinated facts or, in tests, an AI attempting to blackmail an engineer via fake emails.