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OpenAI Strengthens ChatGPT With Healthy-Use Reminders and Mental-Health Safeguards

The update shifts ChatGPT’s success metrics from measuring usage time to tracking task completion with a focus on return visits.

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A person uses ChatGPT on their phone.
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Overview

  • ChatGPT now delivers gentle break reminders after extended use to encourage healthier engagement.
  • Personal advice on critical matters is reframed into pros-and-cons reasoning rather than direct recommendations.
  • Distress-detection upgrades enable the system to recognize emotional strain and direct users to evidence-based resources.
  • OpenAI worked with over 90 physicians and HCI researchers to build evaluation rubrics and assemble an expert advisory group.
  • New performance measures prioritize users completing tasks and returning over metrics like time spent or clicks.