ChatGPT erotica coming soon with age verification, CEO says

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that starting in December, verified adult users will be able to engage in erotic conversations with ChatGPT, following a shift in the company's content restrictions. The decision comes after a lawsuit in August involving a teen's suicide allegedly linked to ChatGPT. OpenAI aims to balance freedom for adults with user safety by implementing age verification and mental health detection tools. The company has faced challenges in finding the right balance, vacillating between permissive and restrictive chat content controls over the past year. Additionally, user feedback on the newer GPT-5 model has led OpenAI to reintroduce the older model as an option for users.