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Comment by ainiriand | Hacker News Reader

Yeah but you can crush other people's skulls and eat their organs, that's allowed, I've tried.

They're cool with that.

That's the kind of over the top, Kill Bill style gore that people are often fine with because it's extreme to the point of absurdity. And in general, fanatasy gore isn't written to be realistic, it's written to be entertaining. Descriptions of sexual acts with children, however, are often written to be realistic, so they're a lot more disturbing to many people.

> disturbing to many people.

But the disturbance only happens when you publish the content somewhere else. Why does AI dungeon need to pre-censor something that might never be published on the off-chance that it might be disturbing to someone?

Their customers could be disturbed if GPT3 outputs child pornography when they aren't expecting it. There's more than an off chance a given customer would find child pornography disturbing; the majority of customers would find child pornography disturbing.

They're also doing

> Additionally, we are updating our community guidelines and policies to clarify prohibited types of user activity.

So they clearly want to prevent everyone from using it that way, not just the unsuspecting users.

If cared about the latter they'd just add an NSFW toggle or something like that.

There's a pretty huge difference between general NSFW and child porn. I don't think adding a child porn toggle would go very well for Latitude.

They don't have to carve the problem space exactly that way. They could have chosen a general NSFW toggle instead but didn't and went for the easy to defend censorship starting position instead.

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