Tweet from Sam Altman:
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 40 (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 only if 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.