> American society (or at least the elites) seems totally engulfed by extreme puritanism, and happy to impose it on the rest of us (why can't we have porn apps

> American society (or at least the elites) seems totally engulfed by extreme puritanism, and happy to impose it on the rest of us (why can't we have porn apps on the iPhone, when there's porn made by perfectly legal companies who pay their workers and their taxes?) I don't think there's as much puritanism as you think. For companies there's fear of losing money through bad press. If there was more money to be made in allowing "bad" things to be said in ChatGPT then that will certainly come. It's all walking on eggshells until 10 years from now when quarterly results aren't looking so good. The reason there's no porn on the iPhone is because they want to sell devices to the entire family and it's much easier to moderate. I'm going to take a guess and say the elite are far more hedonistic than the average citizen.