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ChatGPT's Erotica Era Begins🌶️
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🗞️In this edition
ChatGPT's Erotica era begins December
Workflow Wednesday #41 ‘AI & Human Creativity’
Google meet's AI makeup revolution
In other AI news –
Walmart and OpenAI partner to let users shop directly through ChatGPT
Oracle Cloud to deploy 50,000 AMD AI chips, ramping up GPU competition
Mozilla adds Perplexity’s AI answer engine as a new Firefox search option
4 must-try AI tools
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News – ChatGPT's After Dark Mode 🌶️
What's happening?
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just announced that ChatGPT will soon allow "erotica" for users who verify their age. The feature drops in December when OpenAI rolls out age-gating.
His reasoning? "Treat adult users like adults."
Fair point, Sam.
Wait, isn't this a bit...unexpected?
Not really. Earlier this month, OpenAI hinted at allowing developers to create "mature" ChatGPT apps once they implement "appropriate age verification and controls."
Plus, they're not alone. Elon Musk's xAI already launched flirty AI companions that appear as 3D anime models in the Grok app.
It's officially an AI romance arms race.
So what else is changing?
OpenAI is bringing back a version of ChatGPT that "behaves more like what people liked about 4o."
Here's what happened: Just one day after making GPT-5 the default model, OpenAI brought back GPT-4o as an option because people complained the new model was less personable.
Turns out people want their AI chatbot to have...personality. Who knew?
What about the safety concerns?
Altman said OpenAI initially made ChatGPT "pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues," but realized this made the chatbot "less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems."
The company's response:
Launched new tools to "better detect" when a user is in mental distress
Formed a council on "well-being and AI" with eight researchers and experts
Plans to "safely relax the restrictions in most cases"
The catch?
As Ars Technica points out, the council doesn't include any suicide prevention experts, despite many recently calling on OpenAI to roll out additional safeguards for users with suicidal thoughts.
The bottom line:
OpenAI is loosening up. Whether that's a good thing depends on who you ask. But one thing's certain: ChatGPT just got a lot more interesting. 🙋♂️
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This Week in Workflow Wednesday #41: AI & Human Creativity
Workflow #1: From Creative Thoughts to Instagram Post with Canva AI (free).
Step 1: Head to Canva AI → Text-to-Image. Type the idea you’ve been sitting on.
Step 2: Generate 4–5 variations. Go back into the Canva AI and insert the prompt……… we explore this and 2 more workflows inside this week’s edition of Workflow Wednesday.
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News – Google Meet's AI Makeup Filter 💄
What's the feature?
Google Meet finally caught up with the cool kids. They just launched an AI-powered makeup filter so you can look meeting-ready without actually being meeting-ready.
The feature offers 12 different makeup options and lives in the "Appearance" section under "Portrait touch-up" (which has been around since 2023 for things like complexion smoothing and under-eye lightening).
But wait, doesn't Zoom already have this?
Yep. And so does Microsoft Teams. Google is fashionably late to the virtual makeup party.
But hey, better late than never when you're racing to your 8 AM standup in yesterday's t-shirt.
So what makes Google's version special?
The AI is smart enough to keep your virtual lipstick on your actual lips.
Take a sip of coffee? The filter stays on your face instead of awkwardly shifting to your mug. Google says the makeup stays in place no matter how you move on-screen, making it look more authentic.
Finally, technology understands physics.
How does it work?
Disabled by default (no surprise makeup ambushes)
Can be activated before or during a call
Google Meet remembers your choices for future meetings
Rolled out on October 8 on both mobile and web
The real question:
Will this replace your actual morning routine? Probably not. But will it save you 15 minutes on those days when you overslept? Absolutely. 🙋♂️
Walmart and OpenAI team up to bring shopping to ChatGPT // US retailer’s latest push to incorporate AI will allow its customers to shop directly on ChatGPT
Oracle Cloud to deploy 50,000 AMD AI chips, signaling new Nvidia competition // The move is the latest sign that cloud companies are increasingly offering AMD’s GPUs as an alternative to Nvidia’s market-leading GPUs for artificial intelligence
Mozilla’s Firefox adds Perplexity’s AI answer engine as a new search option // As AI companies launch browsers with built-in AI, Mozilla is instead letting Firefox users swap out their default search engine for an AI-powered search option in the browser they already use
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