The move is part of an effort to ‘relax’ the chatbot now that OpenAI has added age-based mental health safeguards, CEO Sam Altman says.
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ChatGPT is turning up the heat and will generate «erotica for adults», starting in December.
The move comes more than a year after OpenAI said it was exploring how to let people create NSFW content in age-appropriate contexts through its API and ChatGPT.
But first, it had to at least partially address «serious» mental health concerns with its chatbot, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman writes on X today, particularly for teens, following an August lawsuit in which parents accused the chatbot of encouraging their 16-year-old son to take his life.
«We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues», he says. «We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue, we wanted to get this right.
«Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases», he adds.
