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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partners

Side view of young couple using laptop together while lying on rug at home
OpenAI admitted this year that an update to ChatGPT had made the chatbot too agreeable. Photograph: Panther Media GmbH/Alamy

ChatGPT will not tell people to break up with their partner and will encourage users to take breaks from long chatbot sessions, under new changes to the artificial intelligence tool.

OpenAI, ChatGPT’s developer, said the chatbot would stop giving definitive answers to personal challenges and would instead help people to mull over problems such as potential breakups.

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