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Altman is so confident they have addressed mental health safety, that the company is reverting ChatGPT’s behavior so it “behaves more like what people liked about 4o.” Altman essentially apologized to users for the changes that were made to address mental health problems that arose with use of the chatbot:

“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.”

Separately, the company announced the members of its “Expert Council on Well-Being and AI,” an eight-person council of mental health experts.

As a reward for the adults who aren’t suffering mental health issues exacerbated by confiding in the chatbot, Altman says that erotica is on the way.

“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.”

In response to Altman’s post on X, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) quoted Altman’s post with this message:

“You made ChatGPT “pretty restrictive”? Really. Is that why it has been recommending kids harm and kill themselves?”

Parents who administer their child’s teen account will have the ability to change the settings — including placing their child in a more restrictive level than PG-13 — but that assumes the teen hasn’t just tried to sign up on their own using a fake birthday.

To counter those wily kids, Instagram will use “age prediction technology” to set content restrictions, according to the company.

In a blog post announcing the new policy, Meta acknowledged the new settings may not catch all prohibited content:

“Just like you might see some suggestive content or hear some strong language in a PG-13 movie, teens may occasionally see something like that on Instagram — but we’re going to keep doing all we can to keep those instances as rare as possible.”

But another area where Sora users have been pushing the limits involves videos that reanimate dead celebrities.

And we’re not talking just JFK, MLK, and Einstein. Videos featuring more recently deceased figures such as Robin Williams (11 years ago), painter Bob Ross (30 years ago), Stephen Hawking (seven years ago), and even Queen Elizabeth II (three years ago) have been generated. Some of the videos are racist and offensive, shocking the relatives of the figures.

OpenAI told The Washington Post that it is now allowing representatives of “recently deceased” celebrities and public figures to request that their likenesses be blocked from the service, though the company did not give a precise time frame for what it considered recent.

That’s a 63% drop from the same quarter a year ago, even as Tesla as a whole notched its best quarterly sales ever, spurred by the expiration of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit.

With sales lagging, the company has dialed back production of the stainless steel behemoths, but there’s still been an excess.

Fortunately for Tesla, Electrek reports that CEO Elon Musk has other uses for Cybertrucks within his other companies, which often share resources and personnel. Tesla is delivering truckloads of the EV to both xAI (which Tesla shareholders will vote next month on whether to invest in) and SpaceX, where Cybertrucks are replacing internal combustion engine support fleets.

There’s a lot of chatter about “circular deals” in the billion-dollar pacts announced in the AI space on a weekly basis. But it doesn’t get much more circular than this, with production and buying activity kept within the Musk corporate family.