Lying about ethics or misattributing their actions to some misguided sense of "social" responsibility puts google in a far worse light in my eyes. I can't help but wonder how many skilled employees were driven off from accepting a position at google because of lies like these.
That said, you can download Dream by Wombo from the app store and it is one of the top smartphone apps, even though it is a few generations behind state of the art.
Actually, I think they made InstructGPT even better at erotica because it’s trained to be “helpful and friendly”, so in other words they made it a sub.
Google is not a hobby project anymore: "don't do evil" or whatever they whittered on about back in the day.
There's mountains of ai-generated inauthentic content that companies (including Google) have to filter out of their services. This content is used for spam, click farms, scamming, and even state propaganda operations. GPT-2 made this problem orders of magnitude worse than it used to be, and each iteration makes it harder to filter.
The industry term is (generally) "Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior" (though this includes uses of actual human content). I think Smarter Every Day did a good videos (series?) on the topic, and there are plenty of articles on the topic if you prefer that.
“Oh our tech is so dangerous and amazing it could turn the world upside down” yet we hand it to random Bluechecks on Twitter.
It’s just marketing
Someone tried to say there were ethics committees etc the other day...what a bad joke. Who checks the ethics committee is making ethical decisions?
I was told I "didn't know what" I was talking about, excuse from some over-important know-it-all who didn't know what ethics was, i.e. they don't know what they are talking about.
TL;DR generative story site creators employ human moderation after horny people inevitably use site to make gross porn; horny people using site to make regular porn justifiably freaked out
Bring your popcorn
I feel like it would've been more than reasonable for them to have taken the position that the AI might output something distasteful, and implement a filter for people who were afraid of it.