The decision, confirmed by the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, seeks to make the platform “more useful and enjoyable.”
03/12/2025 – 08:53 AM
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Company OpenAI announced a major change to the content policy of the popular artificial intelligence (AI) tool, ChatGPTwhich will allow access to erotic content for verified adult users starting in December.
The decision was confirmed by the company’s CEO Sam AltmanIt seeks to make the platform “more useful and enjoyable” for the majority of users, and ease “strict restrictions” previously imposed after reports of problematic uses and tragedies linked to artificial intelligence.
However, this announcement sparked an immediate wave of warnings Engineers, psychologists and digital security specialistswho point out two crucial points: the weakness of age verification systems and the serious psychological consequences that this type of hyperpersonal reactivity can lead to.
The security debate: “No system is infallible”
AI specialists consulted by Buenos Aires newspaper La Nación agreed that OpenAI cannot guarantee protected access for minors. He loves techies Carlos Arana (UCEMA) and Ingrid Topelberg (MIT) have shown that age verifications, even those that require authentication, are prone to errors (false negatives) and evasion.
“No system is 100% foolproof,” Topelberg said, warning that there will always be ways to bypass controls, including using… Fake IDs Or purchase verified accounts, a practice that already exists on other specialized AI platforms or adult content sites.
Psychologists’ warning: the danger of hyperpersonality
Beyond the technical problem, mental health experts focused on the social and psychological impact of this new functionality. Carolina Sanchez AgostiniThe psychologist and professor at the IAE Business School stressed that the discussion should focus on “the impact on mental health, the quality of connections and the way we learn to look at and care for others.”
Sánchez Agostini emphasized that the consumption of erotic content in AI weakens the quality of emotional aspirations, habituates the user to “sci-fi sex” and reinforces a narcissistic and objectifying vision.
Psychiatrist Angel Gargiulo (CISMA) highlighted that AI-generated sexual arousal is a “supernatural trigger” due to its interactive, customizable and unlimited nature, increasing the potential for addiction. Gargiulo noted that preliminary qualitative studies already link problematic consumption to an increased risk of:
- Compulsive use And emotional dependence.
- isolation social.
- Impotence The worst marital satisfaction.
- Deformities Sexual emotional.
Psychologist Barbara Ayoub He added concern about normalizing inappropriate use of technology and introducing new ethical concerns, such as the lack of genuine consent in the creation of images or videos, and the risk of creating content with characteristics of child sexual exploitation at the user’s request.
Given this panorama, experts have asked AI companies to raise security standards, ensure greater public transparency and take moral and legal responsibility for the implications of content that they say opens a “new area of vulnerability” that has not yet been explored.