🫣 ChatGPT to allow adult erotica

Good morning, AI enthusiast. OpenAI just announced that ChatGPT will soon relax its safety restrictions, allowing verified adult users to have erotic conversations while making the chatbot’s responses more natural, friendly, and human-like.

In today’s AI newsletter:

• ChatGPT to allow erotica for verified adults

• Intel reveals Crescent Island GPU for AI workloads

• Walmart partners with OpenAI for AI-first shopping

• How to change outfits in photos and turn them into videos with AI

• AI tools & more

AI NEWS

💋 ChatGPT to Allow Erotica for Verified Adults

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that, starting this December, verified adults will be able to engage in erotic conversations with ChatGPT. The move comes after years of restrictive safety rules aimed at protecting vulnerable users.

→ ChatGPT’s responses will become friendlier and more human-like
→ Erotica limited to verified adults using age-prediction or ID verification
→ Built on the “treat adult users like adults” principle
→ Part of a broader push to balance safety with engagement

Why is important: OpenAI is loosening content restrictions to make ChatGPT more appealing to adult users, while relying on safeguards to protect minors and vulnerable populations. It’s a bold step that pits growth and engagement against responsibility, and raises questions about how adults and minors interact with AI in the future.

AI HARWARE

⚡ Intel Reveals Crescent Island GPU for AI Workloads

Intel introduced Crescent Island, a GPU designed for data center inference that balances performance, power, and cost. The launch marks the start of Intel’s new annual GPU release strategy to better compete in the AI hardware market.

→ Features 160 GB LPDDR5X memory and Xe3P microarchitecture optimized for performance-per-watt
→ Air-cooled and energy-efficient design for enterprise servers
→ Supports a wide range of AI workloads, from token clouds to enterprise inference
→ Sampling expected in H2 2026, with software stack for early optimizations already in development

Why is important: Intel is doubling down on open systems and heterogeneous AI architectures, giving partners and customers more choice at the hardware level. After 15+ years of missteps in accelerator chips, this GPU signals Intel’s renewed push into the Nvidia-dominated AI infrastructure space.

AI PARTNERSHIPS

🛒 Walmart Teams Up With OpenAI for AI-First Shopping

Walmart and OpenAI announced a partnership that lets users shop and buy products directly inside ChatGPT. The move positions Walmart to capture more market share as AI-driven assistants become the go-to entry point for online shopping.

→ ChatGPT can now answer product questions and place orders instantly
→ Early focus on appliances, household goods, and everyday essentials
→ Aims to compete with Amazon, which controls ~40% of U.S. e-commerce
→ AI-first shopping could reshape how consumers discover and buy products

Why is important: As younger users increasingly turn to AI for shopping guidance, AI chatbots could start replacing traditional search and e-commerce experiences. Walmart’s integration is a bold move to ride this shift before Amazon fully adapts.

HOW TO AI

💻 How to Change Outfits in Photos and Turn Them into Videos With AI

TopView AI is a powerful AI tool that lets you change outfits in photos and turn them into animated videos, without any complex editing. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through how to use TopView AI’s brush tool to swap clothing and the Image to Video feature to instantly animate your design.

🧰 Who is This For

• Fashion designers testing new looks

• E-commerce owners creating model shoots

• Content creators experimenting with style

• Anyone who wants studio-quality visuals without photo editing

STEP 1: Access the Product Dashboard

Head over to the Topview AI, and you’ll land on the Product AnyShoot dashboard.
At the top, you’ll see different modes, make sure you select “Product + Model”. This mode lets you apply any outfit to a person’s photo.

On the right-hand side, locate the “Product Image” section. Click Upload and choose the outfit you want to apply, it could be a T-shirt, dress, or any fashion item you want to visualize.

STEP 2: Upload or Create Your Model Image

At the center of the screen, you’ll see two buttons:
“Local Upload” and “AI Create.”

If you already have a photo of the person you want to style, click “Local Upload” and select it from your computer.

If you don’t, click “AI Create” to generate a realistic model image directly in the platform.

For this tutorial, select Local Upload and upload your model photo.

STEP 3: Highlight the Clothing Area

Once both images are uploaded, look just below the outfit upload panel, you’ll see a brush tool.
Click it and use your cursor to brush over the clothing area you want to replace on the model.

Make sure to cover the full clothing region (like a shirt or pants) for accurate blending. When done, scroll down and click “Generate” at the bottom of the screen.

In a few seconds, your new outfit will appear perfectly aligned and realistically textured on the model.

STEP 4: Download or Animate

After generation, you’ll see a preview of your final image on the right side.
If it looks good, click the download icon in the corner to save it.

But if you want to take it further, look below your preview for the “Image to Video” option.
Click it, and the AI will instantly animate your image, turning it into a short video of your model wearing the outfit.

ESSENTIAL BITES

• A new Graphite study shows AI articles briefly overtook human ones in late 2024, but now the web is about half AI, half human written.

• OpenAI makes a five-year business plan to meet $1T+ spending pledges; it currently books ~$13B in ARR, 70% of which comes from consumers using ChatGPT.

• Spotify is partnering with Netflix to bring select video podcasts to the streaming service starting in early 2026, featuring shows from Spotify Studios and The Ringer.

• Ant Group’s InclusionAI launched Ring-1T, an open-source “thinking model” that scored silver at the International Mathematical Olympiad, just behind Google and OpenAI’s gold-tier models.

HOT AI TOOLS

️💻️ AI Workflow Builder (Beta): Turn prompts into workflows on n8n Cloud.

🖼️ MAI-Image-1: Microsoft’s first in-house text-to-image model

⚙️ Claude Code: Anthropic’s AI coding assistant

🧑‍💻 Perplexity: AI-powered answer engine for real-time answers to any question

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY

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