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TechCrunch · Mar 26, 2026 6:34 PM EDT AI

OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPT’s erotic mode

It's only the latest of several side project that the AI startup has ditched over the past week.

OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPT’s erotic mode
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