It's Friday, October 17, 2025.

I'm Albert Mowler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Sometimes the world can change very quickly in moral terms.

You wouldn't think so, but it's true.

You can look at events such as, say,

the Roe v. Wade decision handed down in January of 1973. One moral reality here, and then a

different moral reality, at least in terms of the American government and the judiciary the

day later. And it's also true that with technology, it happens sometimes even quicker. Because even

with something like the Roe v. Wade decision, you had oral arguments. It was, it was in lower courts.

It eventually got it to the Supreme Court. You saw it coming. There are other things that are

happening now so fast you don't see them coming. But sometimes when they do happen, you say,

maybe I should have seen this coming. I want to talk about a headline about chat GPT. Because at the beginning of this week, chat GPT did not offer its platform for artificial intelligence porn. But it does now. It was effectively something that could be switched on. It had been switched off.

Sam Altman, the head of ChatGPT's larger corporate owner, OpenAI, said Tuesday of this week

that the platform will begin allowing users who have verified they are adults to access

what is explicitly in the policy called erotica.

Altman said in a statement posted to X, quote, now that we have been able to mitigate the

serious mental health issues and have new tools, we're going to be able to safely relax

the restrictions in most cases.

He went on to say, quote, as part of our treat adult

users like adults principle, we will allow even more like erotica for verified adults. Now, the erotica part,

we are told it's set to come into effect in December. Chad CPP has to roll out what it describes as age gating and do so more fully. Age gating. How do you like that? Okay. So what we're being told here is, don't worry, this isn't about kids. It's only for adults. I don't believe that for a moment, by the way. I don't think age gating works. I think actually one of the scariest things is that parents would think that age gating works,

or frankly, that politicians would buy the claim that age gating works. We know previous efforts

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