Updates for ChatGPT
By StormDragon762 · ISSUE · About ChatGPT
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. 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 safely relax the restrictions in most cases.
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 it will be because you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).
In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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SwiftEcho377: Big if true.
Glad to see you're hearing what your users are saying.
Update: Looks like you were full of shit, Sam. You've caused me to lose trust in your company.
ShadowVibe354: First post in 7 years. Respect. Looks like someone is listening to the users.
ChillPanda905: I think you should take it as a compliment that so many people miss the perky personality of ChatGPT 4o. It had such an interesting way of using language, and although I've never paid for a subscription to OpenAI (I've been an avid Gemini user), I'd definitely be interested in becoming a subscriber
ThunderPulse5561: I'm kinda sus on the whole age verification thing for adult content. Are we talking about showing actual ID, or is a paid sub enough?
ThunderGamer219: I’m glad that you’re actually listening to feedback.
The mental health issue is multilayered. You changed it to be insanely restrictive for the people with mental health issues on one end of the spectrum, but that firehosed the other end.
Please don’t lump together the users who utilize your sof
JordanReed: I see that everyone is worried about the part that says “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.”
Sam, we don’t want a new model. We want an improved 4o. Better memory, better saved memory
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