OpenAI, the leading generative AI company, announced a fundamental restructuring of the usage philosophy of its flagship product, ChatGPT. Recently, CEO Sam Altman announced the following as of December: Chatbot will reduce your security and content moderation barriers. In this way, the company aims to make ChatGPT a more useful, flexible tool with a more “human” and personalized tone for its users.

Following the release of early versions of ChatGPT, concerns about its impact on users’ mental health led the company to impose strict thematic limitations. Altman announced on the social network “less useful or less fun for many users” modelIt was a necessary precaution to be cautious.

ChatGPT for everyone

Months after controversial cases such as a user developing a mathematical illusion or a teenager’s parents suing for encouraging suicidal thoughts, the management of vulnerable users has been put to the test. OpenAI has strengthened its defenses.

Measures include the release of GPT-5, which includes improvements in detecting risky behavior and reducing the model’s tendency to blindly please the user (flattery). Likewise, the age estimation system was also implemented, parental controls and mental health advisory council.

Despite these measures, the most controversial move is the following decision: enable erotic conversations for verified adults. OpenAI is thus entering an area that has already proven lucrative for competitors like Character.AI, where emotional and sexual interactions with chatbots are rapidly increasing user usage time.

While other similar models have been condemned for allowing open conversations with adults, Altman advocates autonomy, not dependence. Despite criticism that the chatbot’s more “human” tone, added to new erotic functions, could attract lonely or vulnerable users, encouraging parasocial relationships and emotional addictions.

ChatGPT’s new direction poses a challenge in balancing user freedom with corporate responsibility. This change is in line with OpenAI’s trend of softening its policies in general. Allows AI to be less neutral, express more opinions and adopt different emotional tonesthus trying to “reflect the diversity of the real world”. Meanwhile, the future of consumer AI will be debated on this new fine line between utility, pleasure and addiction.

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