Sam Altman promises to return humanity to ChatGPT
OpenAI head Sam Altman made a statement after numerous offline and online protests against shutting down the GPT-4o model occurred. And then turning it on, but with a wild router. I talked about this last week in maximum detail. Direct quote from OpenAI head.
We made ChatGPT quite strict to be confident it takes mental health issues into account. We understand this made it less useful and attractive for many users without mental health problems. But given the seriousness of the problem, we wanted to do everything right.
Now that we’ve managed to mitigate serious mental health issues and get new tools, we’ll be able to safely loosen restrictions in most cases.
In a few weeks we plan to release a new ChatGPT version. Which will allow people to behave like a personality more like what people liked in 4o. And hopefully it will be better! If you want your ChatGPT to respond very humanly, or use a bunch of emojis, or behave like a friend, ChatGPT should do that. But only if you want it, not because we’re striving for maximum usage.
In December, as we more fully implement age verification and within our principle of “treat adult users like adults,” we’ll allow even more. For example, erotica for persons who passed adulthood verification.