OpenAI will reduce the mental health safeguards built into ChatGPT and allow its users to create erotica, it has announced.

The company had initially taken a “pretty restrictive” approach to ChatGPT “to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues”, OpenAI’s chief executive Sam Altman said. But the company said that it had now been able to “mitigate the serious mental health issues” and so would be able to reduce some of those restrictions, he said.

Those restrictions had been intended to safeguard vulnerable users but had made ChatGPT “less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems”, he wrote in a tweet. As such, the company intended to put out an update to ChatGPT that would make it less restricted, he announced.

“In a few weeks, we plan to put o

See Full Page