OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on Tuesday that the company will soon relax some of ChatGPTs safety restrictions, allowing users to make the chatbots responses more human-like and permitting verified adults to engage in erotic conversations.
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues, Altman wrote on X. In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our treat adult users like adults principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
The shift marks a significant policy change for the company, which has spent months tightening safeguards after reports that vulnerable users had developed unhealthy emotional attachments to the chatbot. While Altman claimed OpenAI has mitigated the serious mental health issues, the company has released little evidence to support this.
