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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Andrew Griffin

ChatGPT will now let users make erotica: ‘Treat adults like adults’

OpenAI will reduce the mental health safeguards built into ChatGPT and allow its users to create erotica, it has announced.

The company had initially taken a “pretty restrictive” approach to ChatGPT “to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues”, OpenAI’s chief executive Sam Altman said. But the company said that it had now been able to “mitigate the serious mental health issues” and so would be able to reduce some of those restrictions, he said.

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