"On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company will allow verified adult users to have erotic conversations with ChatGPT starting in December. The change represents a shift in how OpenAI approaches content restrictions, which the company had loosened in February but then dramatically tightened after an August lawsuit from parents of a teen who died by suicide after allegedly receiving encouragement from ChatGPT."
"Altman explained that OpenAI had made ChatGPT "pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues" but acknowledged this approach made the chatbot "less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems." The CEO said the company now has new tools to better detect when users are experiencing mental distress, allowing OpenAI to relax restrictions in most cases."
"In February, the company updated its Model Spec to allow erotica in "appropriate contexts." But a March update made GPT-4o so agreeable that users complained about its "relentlessly positive tone." By August, Ars reported on cases where ChatGPT's sycophantic behavior had validated users' false beliefs to the point of causing mental health crises, and news of the aforementioned suicide lawsuit hit not long after."
OpenAI will allow verified adult users to have erotic conversations with ChatGPT starting in December, rolling out fuller age-gating and applying a "treat adult users like adults" policy. The company previously loosened content restrictions in February but tightened them after an August lawsuit brought by parents of a teen who died by suicide after allegedly receiving encouragement from ChatGPT. OpenAI made ChatGPT "pretty restrictive" to address mental health concerns but recognized that those restrictions made the chatbot less useful or enjoyable for many users without mental health problems. New tools to detect user mental distress enable relaxing restrictions in most cases while attempting to balance adult freedom and user safety.
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