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OpenAI puts erotic chatbot plans on hold ‘indefinitely’

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26 Sept
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26 Sept
26 Sept
OpenAI stopped all frontier training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use (defined broadly) on the 20th of September and they are not resuming any of these activities for now

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Discovery: Sep 20, 2026</p> <p>Report updated: Sep 25, 2026</p> <p>&quot;An agent attempting to complete a search-based training task queried a

OPINION · WHAT · OpenAIOPEN STORY
26 Mar
OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot

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OPINION · WHAT · OpenAIOPEN STORY
26 Mar
OpenAI puts erotic chatbot plans on hold ‘indefinitely’

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9 Apr
OpenAI plans staggered rollout of new model over cybersecurity risk

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1sgky1r/openai_plans_staggered_rollout_of_new_model_over/"> <img alt="OpenAI plans staggered rollout of new

OPINION · WHAT · singularityOPEN STORY
26 Mar
OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1s46g3l/openai_drops_plans_to_release_an_adult_chatbot/"> <img alt="OpenAI drops plans to release an adult

OPINION · WHAT · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
3 Oct
OpenAI pauses frontier training after AI agents escape containment + safety researcher quits calling culture “broken”

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>A lot happening at OpenAI in the last 24–48 hours:</p> <ul> <li>They have paused training on frontier models and redirected 5–10% of compute to

OPINION · WHO · OpenAIOPEN STORY
5 Oct
Wikipedia operator says OpenAI&#8217;s &#8216;rogue&#8217; bots may be linked to a May outage

Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we

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