OpenAI will soon lower restrictions on the content ChatGPT can produce, allowing the service to create "erotica" if users wish, CEO Sam Altman announced Tuesday.
Altman noted that the new functionality would only be applied to users who explicitly ask for it. He said the current restrictions on ChatGPT were the result of an abundance of caution around mental health, but he now believes the language model can "treat adult users like adults."
"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," Altman wrote.
"In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing)," he continued.
