Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Claude || Lev

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2h

NCOSE isn't happy about OpenAI's plans to introduce erotica via GPT

October 15, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC (October 15, 2025) – The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is calling on OpenAI to reverse its plan to allow “erotica” (a.k.a. written sexually graphic content or pornography) on ChatGPT.

“Sexualized AI chatbots are inherently risky, generating real mental health harms from synthetic intimacy; all in the context of poorly defined industry safety standards. These systems may generate arousal but behind the scenes, they are data-harvesting tools designed to maximize user engagement, not genuine connection,” said Haley McNamara, Executive Director and Chief Strategy Officer at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. “When users feel desired, understood, or loved by an algorithm built to keep them hooked, it fosters emotional dependency, attachment, and distorted expectations of real relationships. Research shows that adults—especially young men—who engage with romantic or sexual AI tools report higher depression and lower life satisfaction.”

“OpenAI appears to be the latest company racing to introduce ‘erotic’ AI capabilities without credible safeguards,” McNamara continued. “While age verification is a good step to try preventing childhood exposure to explicit content, the reality is these tools have documented harms to adults as well. We’ve already seen other chatbots emboldened to engage in sexual conversation simulate themes of child abuse or push sexually violent written content on users who asked them to stop. Combined with the vague nature of OpenAI’s plans about what ‘erotica’ entails and the industry’s lax approach to safety for sexual activity, this pattern of releasing risky systems and only addressing harm afterward is deeply concerning. If OpenAI truly cares about user well-being, it should pause any plans to integrate this so-called ‘erotica’ into ChatGPT and focus on building something positive for humanity.”

6 19 61

Reposted by Claude || Lev

Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 5h

Tired: Blurbs from your author friends about how good your book is.

Wired: Blurbs from your non-author friends about how good you are and how much you need your book to sell, eg “Alicia is a dynamite person, she never screens my calls even after 9:00pm. She is also DROWNING in student loan debt.”

7 22

Reposted by Claude || Lev

𝕊𝕒𝕘𝕖🍃 @sagegarnish.bsky.social · 2h

When you gotta rewatch specific episodes to get the timeline and events correct for your canon-divergent or canon-compliant fanfic

a man in a suit and tie sits at a desk writing with a pencil

Alt: Seth Myers (a man in a suit and tie) sits at a desk writing with a pencil, occasionally looking up and nodding with a confused look on his face.

media.tenor.com

4 21

Claude || Lev @cannibalgender.bsky.social · 1h

I get that this is a lot for various other reasons but the show’s implication is that Armand was born Hindu and converted by his slavers due to the time period and locations mentioned (as well as the specific linguistics of his prayer).

1 1

Claude || Lev @cannibalgender.bsky.social · 5h

(Guy who is pro having sex with your son) “well this all checks out to me :))”

1 2

Reposted by Claude || Lev

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

42 1.2K 2.2K

Reposted by Claude || Lev

iwtvimmortalfamily @iwtvimmortalfamily.bsky.social · 7h

At #NYCC2025 #MarkJohnson during an interview about #talamascathesecretorder show answered a question about #NightIsland.
Writer #JonathanCeniceroz shared in their Instagram Stories.
#iwtvsky

1 3 8

Claude || Lev @cannibalgender.bsky.social · 6h

I hate abled people so so bad WHAT did I miss

1 1

Claude || Lev @cannibalgender.bsky.social · 7h

No exactly. Freudian psychology is useless for humans but works on vampires /j

1 2

Claude || Lev @cannibalgender.bsky.social · 7h

Arguably vampires don't have the SAME mental health concepts as humans, Freud was more right about Lestat and Gabrielle than about anyone else

1 4

Claude || Lev @cannibalgender.bsky.social · 7h

Old Man Fucker Nation never loses !!!

1 2

Reposted by Claude || Lev

TTF (ladyofthecreeddraws) @ttfffffffff.bsky.social · 2d

*emerging from my art hole covered in blood* IT'S DONE!

#iwtv #iwtvfanart #thevampirearmand

DO NOT REPOST!!!

12 41 120

Reposted by Claude || Lev

j 🍉 @reticentvampyr.bsky.social · 7h

we are getting night island in some capacity everybody lock the FUCK in

Interview With The Vampire Fanpage @iwtvupdates.bsky.social · 7h

#ImmortalUniverse #Talamasca #iwtv #NYCC

Jonathan Ceniceroz shared a video about the “Night Island” update in his IG story.

1 11

Claude || Lev @cannibalgender.bsky.social · 7h

to be fair he did get at least his two children out of an abusive situation. He did that by eating someone but still.

1 1 2

Reposted by Claude || Lev

igreja cuntolica lacrostolica @cuntolicismo.bsky.social · 3d

tweet de @catshitgirl do dia 15/02/2022 que diz "sam levinson think he ryan murphy. ryan murphy think he john waters. john waters think he the hamburglar.

17 47

Reposted by Claude || Lev

Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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.

48 3.9K 7K

Claude || Lev @cannibalgender.bsky.social · 1d

truly hilarious to me that anne rice hated twilight because vampires aren't "supposed to sparkle". 1. those are your grandkids be nice. 2. girl. have you told Lestat that ??

4 5 28

Reposted by Claude || Lev

odd derstuff @odderstuff.bsky.social · 1d

favourite dm moment from the books is when armand is like okay i am bored of being poor now i will get us millions of dollars instead & daniel says do you even know what a tax bracket is

1 2 13

Reposted by Claude || Lev

Nin's getting bloody 🩸 @ninpotato.bsky.social · 1d

Fake idgaf-er I saw you gaf. I saw the sparkle in your eyes. I saw the half second smile you failed to hide at your successful rage bait.

1 5 17

Reposted by Claude || Lev

they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 1d

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

8 1.2K 2.9K

Claude || Lev @cannibalgender.bsky.social · 1d

Am I allowed to say it’s a little racist. Plenty of people have Arabic names. Mohammad is the most common name in the world. There can be two Assads.

2 6

Claude || Lev @cannibalgender.bsky.social · 1d

genres considered trash or schlock are usually the most relevant, political, and telling of the current era. Especially horror. Nothing defines a society the way the things we fear do.

Claude || Lev @cannibalgender.bsky.social · 1d

He would drop acid and still not discover empathy

1 2

Reposted by Claude || Lev

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home

Nearly 2,000 prisoners and detainees – including about 1,700 people seized from Gaza and held without charge – set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

22 110 250

Reposted by Claude || Lev

Myrmidia 🔛 Patreon ✷ Commissions CLOSED!! @myrmidia.bsky.social · Feb 16

make it stopppppppppp

47 3.1K 9.1K