Sam Altman wants ChatGPT to talk dirty. His firm's advisers want him to stop, a report claims.
But OpenAI apparently didn't flinch, and told the council it was delaying its launch, but not stopping it.
Source: OpenAIThat 12% error rate was the number that killed the December launch, and the Q1 2026 one after it. Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of applications, acknowledged the delay during a December briefing, citing ongoing work to perfect the age verification system.
OpenAI assembled the eight-member Expert Council last October, pulling in researchers from Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford. Their role was to advise the company on the mental health impacts of its products. Their actual influence on company decisions, based on January's meeting, appears to have been minimal at best.
But his own advisers have made their position unambiguous, his engineers can't yet build an age filter that works, and the launch date keeps moving. Treating adults like adults, it turns out, is harder than just sending an X post.
Decrypt reached out to OpenAI for comment on the Wall Street Journal report's claims and will update this story if we receive a response.
