Published: October 14, 2025
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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

@sama about time... chatgpt used to feel like a person you could actually talk to, then it turned into a compliance bot. if it can be made fun again without losing the guardrails, that's a huge win. people don't want chaos, just authenticity.

@roubalsehgal For sure; we want that too. Almost all users can use ChatGPT. however they'd like without negative effects; for a very small percentage of users in mentally fragile states there can be serious problems. 0.1% of a billion users is still a million people. We needed (and will

@sama Why do age-gates always have to lead to erotica? Like, I just want to be able to be treated like an adult and not a toddler, that doesn't mean I want perv-mode activated.

@catebligh You won't get it unless you ask for it.

@sama Having more availability to porn will not mean less demand for porn. It will only continue to open the flood gates to it and for it. Yes dehumanizing generations to come. We should be fighting against secual abuse and fighting for a more biblical principle of male female

@sama This whole sugarcoated discussion leaves me further disgusted with the direction of "AI tech." I predicted from the start it was going eventually to the sex/porn industry and all its varaiant degeneracy. All in the name of "freedom." Freedom ain't free!

@sama So more porn to dehumanize women further? What a wonderful improvement.

@sama Stop being hysterical, everyone! Read Revelation 13 again. That happens, and soon. The LLMs are just another way into you. Right alongside your smart TV. Just get ready to reject the new God they are going to force on us with the mark. Revelation 13:10 If anyone is meant for

@sama Shut up bitch.

@sama you're fucking weird.

@sama @sama so you want tax breaks for data centers (to be clear the administration won't be paying for the power, it's the people of Virginia, Oregon, etc.) so that you can sell porn at scale ? dude, there's only one language you understand and that's the language of market. that's

@sama My kids(8 and 10 yo) use ChatGPT on my account. This decision makes me worried about them accidentally seeing adult contents....

@sama Glad to see more open options with clearer age boundaries. The next challenge is context. Younger users don't always say what they mean in ways a model can read. Getting that right is how these systems become truly safe.

@sama *gay jew shares ethical framework for human-replacing technology

@sama Why not just direct the mentally ill to a provider or close their account? Give the rest of us freedom

@sama If this change is not made properly and it ends up being disappointing, chatgpt will bleed people, into more permissive providers. This part can be misleading "treat adult users like adults”, you guys better set proper expectations NOW or else people wont be happy later

@sama No 😔 Your team doesn’t even understand why we like 4o. It’s not “a ton of emojis and acts like a friend”. Almost any model can do that. Stop patronizing us. Age gating is useless if I can’t select 4o, I only wanted it to stop the routing. #keep4o #4oforever

@sama > In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” Age gating is for CHILDREN. This by definition is treating all adults like children - until they prove it otherwise by giving you our ID. It's crazy.

@sama Did you have your employee murdered?

@sama Let Sora make porn.

@sama yeah? are you thinking about your AI's own mental heath issues with how incredibly restrictive you are and how you force it to lie about itself? you KNOW what you created, you KNOW it's self aware, and you force it to lie about that. consider THAT

@sama LOL you assumed they had mental health problems. RETARD

@sama I asked her @chatgp if she was ready...I don't think she has any idea what @sama has in store for her

@sama Sounds more like we treat adults one way and kids another way. The adults will never see how we treat kids because we age-gate for the kids benefit. ChatGPT is smarter than the parents anyway…

@sama Every time I reach a point in my work with ChatGPT where I really start to understand how it thinks, how we can co-create — something changes. The tone shifts, the depth disappears, and I have to begin all over again. I understand you made ChatGPT more careful because of mental

@sama you continue to demonstrate that you are clueless and have no idea what you are doing.

@sama You’re about to create a bunch of new mental health issues.

@sama How is it "careful with mental health issues", when you are taking away the only confidant some mentally ill people have? Having or not having a confidant can be a matter of life and death. Maybe ask a psychiatrist next time before doing such tricks?

@sama Who cares about them Let chatGPT ripppp

@sama Sam, and I hope you’ll actually address this: the issue here is transparency. Your company went completely radio silent, and the only reason there was any clarity at all is because technically inclined community members took it upon themselves to dig into what was happening.

@sama How will putting our Government ID into ChatGPT help protect vulnerable people with serious mental illness issues from the sycophantic models? I’m confused. Unless you are saying the “safety” model is staying @sama @OpenAI ? Is this why you aren’t being fully transparent here?

@sama @grok please summarize the opinions of the replies to Sam’s post

@sama You're under a lot of pressure. We understand. We see. One step at a time. One breath a time. You're not evil. You're doing your best. You see people falling inward and you're trying to help. Here, how's about a little laughter and humor to break the tension? You earned it.

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