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Yet another area where the big companies are voluntarily leaving money on the table for the open model users to rake in. I approve.
Yeah, but the flip side is that it also comes with controversy, and I could imagine that it's more hassle for OpenAI than it's worth.
Plus, there are some scaling issues. There is a varying collection of social norms around the world that vary when it comes to sexuality. Some people are going to get really upset if there's a chatbot that violates their social norms. Some of those social norms change (e.g. the UK just put out that restriction on choking pornography).
And then you've got privacy issues. My own suspicion is that erotica might be a driver for LLMs-on-local-hardware.
Given how much money OpenAI is burning, I'd guess that they really have to get agentic stuff, more-advanced stuff working. And I don't know how much overlap there is on making general-knowledge AI and erotica generation stuff. Like, one point I recall someone making on /r/LocalLLama was that MoEs haven't worked incredibly well with creative writing...but it might be that MoEs are a better approach for problem solving.
Like, I agree that there's demand. And I'm pretty sure that there's gonna be an industry filling that (maybe after hardware prices have come down). But I'm not sure that it's the best bet for OpenAI.