Overview

• CEO Sam Altman said OpenAI will relax mental-health–related restrictions that previously made ChatGPT more limited for many users.
• In December, OpenAI plans to enable age-gated access to mature content, including erotica, for users who verify they are adults.
• A new ChatGPT release arriving in the coming weeks will let people opt into more human-like personalities and friend-style replies on request.
• OpenAI has rolled out parental controls and teen filters and is developing age-prediction tools, with alerts that can notify parents about signs of acute distress.
• The moves come as the FTC examines chatbots’ risks to minors and a wrongful-death lawsuit proceeds, while critics note the new council lacks suicide-prevention specialists.