OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a series of tweets that the company plans to roll out a new version of its ChatGPT AI chatbot later this year, including options that will allow verified adult users to access sexually explicit material. The change, Altman said, is part of an effort to give adult users more freedom while maintaining strict safeguards for minors and users with mental health concerns.
“We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues,” Altman wrote. “We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to