--- title: "ChatGPT Happy to Write Smut About Freakishly Obscure Sex Act" description: "Omegaverse Ever heard of the Omegaverse? OpenAI's ChatGPT sure has. As Wired reports, the Omegaverse is a very niche, very sexual fanfiction community. This online world is quite complicated, and like similar online worlds, the wildly specific content that exists within it is only really created, shared, and consumed by the Omegaverse community. Which is why, […]" date: "2023-05-16" modified: "2023-05-16" authors: - name: "Maggie Harrison Dupré" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/mharrison" url: "https://futurism.com/chat-gpt-sex-omegaverse" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "OpenAI" tags: - "ai" - "large language models" - "OpenAI" --- # ChatGPT Happy to Write Smut About Freakishly Obscure Sex Act ![Fanfiction writers realized an OpenAI-powered writing assistant app was suddenly spitting out incredibly specific erotic fiction.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* Ever heard of the Omegaverse? It seems like OpenAI's models are already deeply familiar. In case you're not clued in, the [Omegaverse]() is a niche subgenre of speculative erotic fanfiction that has developed its own complicated set of conventions and terminologies. But as [*Wired* reports](), fanfiction writers were startled when they realized that a writing assistant app called Sudowrite, which makes use of "[several variants]()" of OpenAI's GPT-3 — and, in our testing, the GPT-3-based ChatGPT — was suddenly spitting out incredibly specific Omegaverse-related smut. Per the report, the integration churned out a story that included something called "knotting," an [Omegaverse term]() that refers to a moment in which a male "Alpha's" penis locks itself inside a vagina during sex. OpenAI has famously [refused]() to say exactly what data it trains its large language models on, but given the damning evidence, the data clearly includes at least some Omegaverse-related works. It's a fascinating glimpse into the vast amount of training data OpenAI's models are trained on — and how the tech is starting to affect authors, whose work is being scraped by those models without being compensated. Though Omegaverse authors often aren't looking to make money from their graphic labor of love, they understandably don't think it's right that someone else might — especially if they're using AI chatbots like Sudowrite to generate fanfiction. And writers have been ringing the alarm bells for quite some time now. "This is particularly concerning as many for-profit AI writing programs... utilized GPT-3," a Reddit user called cafethereseu, who called attention to the issue in a [Reddit thread]() roughly six months ago, wrote in an email to fanfic repository Archive of Our Own. "These AI apps take the works which we create for fun and fandom," the email continued, "not only to gain profit, but also to one day replace human writing." But is that really the end goal of apps like Sudowrite? For his part, Sudowrite CTO James Yu appeared to be unfazed by the issue. "For me, it highlights the things I don't know," he told *Wired*. "In every one of these models is millions of other latent spaces that I just never encounter. It's almost like an endless ocean." Yu had a convenient answer when asked whether he had any plans to compensate folks like the ripped-off Omegaverse writers. "I'd love for there to be a simple way to do fair compensation for content that was used to train GPT-3, but unfortunately, there is no mechanism that OpenAI provides for that," he told *Wired*, adding that he'd be open to the idea. "I would love to get to a place where we could have a totally opt-in model and everyone is compensated for that," Yu responded. "I just don't think that's possible right now." Fanfiction writers, however, aren't convinced such a future will ever materialize. "Even if it's just plain smut, there's a human element there and it's someone creating something for their enjoyment and they want to share that hard work with people," Hayley Krueger, an Omegavese author, told *Wired*. "It's stealing that." **More on AI:** [*Ex-Google CEO Says We Should Trust AI Industry to Self-Regulate*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've reported extensively on the rise of AI as a cultural and business force shaping the media industry, and more broadly how those dynamics are changing how we all consume and share information and relate to one another. I'm also fascinated by public health policy and ethics, the role of emerging tech in politics and governance — and the powerful people and forces at those intersections — climate change, and the environment. My investigation on Sports Illustrated's use of AI-generated authors with fictional biographies won a 2024 Mirror Award for "Best Story on Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism and the Media" from Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School, I contributed to Niemen Lab's 2025 Predictions for Journalism series, and I've discussed my work for Futurism during appearances on NPR, CNN, the BBC, the CBC, and more. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I played Division I field hockey for the Minutewomen as a midfielder. Since then, I've lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and Manhattan, New York. I spend my free time running, reading, perusing archival fashion, and searching for the world’s best negroni. I also have a debonair tuxedo cat, Westley, who's named after "The Princess Bride." ### Author social links [Bluesky]()