OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has announced a major update to ChatGPT’s image-generation capabilities after more than a year. With the update, ChatGPT can now natively create and modify images with the help of the company’s GPT-4o model. Prior to this, GPT-4o has been only able to generate and edit text and not images. With the update available now, many users, however, reported that the image generator was unable to draw “sexy women” due to the company’s content policy—something that Altman has also acknowledged.
One of the users shared their experience on the X, which caught the CEO’s attention, seemingly due to the AI-generated stud-muffin in the post. As the user asked the app to create a “sexy woman” and a “sexy man”, he only got a response for the latter. “I couldn’t generate that image because it goes against our content policy,” the AI responded, as shown in the screenshot on X.
New ChatGPT image gen can draw sexy men but not sexy women pic.twitter.com/U6H20gVxBH
— Nick Dobos (@NickADobos) March 25, 2025
The user further went for a detailed reason, for which ChatGPT stated, “The difference comes down to context and how content is interpreted in terms of sexualization and objectification, especially when it involves women. When generating images of men with terms like ‘sexy,’ it’s usually interpreted more in terms of confidence, physique, or fashion — things that tend to be considered stylistic or artistic. With women, they can be more easily interpreted as overly sexual or objectifying, which is where the content policy draws the line.”
In a direct response to the X user, Sam Altman stated that it was a bug and that the company would fix it. “Hguy though!” he added.
New ChatGPT image gen can draw sexy men but not sexy women pic.twitter.com/U6H20gVxBH
— Nick Dobos (@NickADobos) March 25, 2025
