The categories are «psychosis, mania or other severe mental health symptoms,» which consists of around 0.07% of conversations — or 550,000 people in actual numbers.
Second is «self-harm and suicide,» ticking in at 0.15% of ChatGPT users — or 1.2 million in actual numbers.
And the third is «emotional reliance on AI,» accounting for 0.15% of users in a given week, also 1.2 million in real numbers.
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This includes alerting parents of teens in distress, routing queries to a more powerful reasoning model when appropriate, and giving parents more control over their kid’s usage.
The company has assembled a council of experts in «youth development, mental health, and human-computer interaction,» which will shape how AI will «support people’s well-being,» they say in a blog post.
In a lengthy x.com post, Altman considers the issues as «edge cases,» but welcomed both attachment and using ChatGPT as a kind of «life coach.»
Recently, OpenAI announced a wellness update to reduce sycophancy and push back against delusions, and the hope is that this can reduce some of the risks:
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