I was supposed to post this last Monday, but things got really busy really quickly (or was I pretending, as the calendar above tells you to?).
Category: Humor
I’ve already fielded a couple of questions about where to get the T-shirt that Michael Carducci wore at his Tampa Java User Group / Tampa Bay AI Meetup / Tampa Devs talk last week — the one with that parodies the Motion Picture Association’s “You wouldn’t steal a car” ad:
You can get the T-shirt online from Webbed Briefs’ store for £25 (US$33.54 at the time of writing):
And while you’re here, please enjoy The IT Crowd’s parody of that ad:
Yesterday, I came up with a joke in response to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s tweet about adding “erotica for verified adults” to an upcoming version of ChatGPT. This morning, I came up with a better one, and here it is:
I’d rather not link to X, so here’s a screenshot of Sam Altman’s tweet where he announced the upcoming changes, followed by the text of the tweet:
In the tweet:
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.
Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.
In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).
In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
These seem reasonable.