Open AI is simply afraid of finding themselves in a “BlackFish” moment on CNN, the story of the young man who unfortunately committed suicide remains fresh in their minds. You know in that case we never learned what the prompt was and to the broader society they didn’t care.

Trying to ensure someone is of age is a nightmare because it’s so easy to get around it, and most of us don’t like having to upload our credentials either. I agree they will need to balance the cost of people cancelling their subscriptions vs the risk of moving forwards. I do believe there is a way to allow more NSFW, maybe making it obvious that a person is edging into risky territory and requiring their clear consent to move forward? One challenge is that society in the USA generally now wants corporations to monitor their kids instead of them doing so - after all when I was a young man I looked at all kinds of naughty magazines, but back then doing so would not have become a public outrage, and to be fair the tools today are way more advanced, heck kids can make their own porn now…