After receiving backlash, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company is not rolling back any restrictions related to "mental health."

Altman said OpenAI plans to “safely relax the restrictions” on ChatGPT now that engineers have built new safeguards around mental health content.

OpenAI's partnerships have pushed the value of its dealmaking to $1 trillion this year alone, and CEO Sam Altman doesn't seem to be finished.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Sam Altman turned a quiet White House appearance into a global power play that dragged Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Oracle,

After OpenAI said it would allow erotic content through ChatGPT, Sam Altman struck a defying tone in defending the decision. The OpenAI CEO said in a post on X that the AI company is “not the elected moral police of the world” in response to criticism from the likes of billionaire Mark Cuban to The National Center on Sexual Exploitation.

As some users seek intimacy and companionship from AI, companies are exploring erotic features to keep users engaged and attract new ones.

OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman said that the company is planning to “safely relax” restrictions on what kinds of conversations ChatGPT can engage in, and by the end of the year will even allow adult users to have sexually explicit conversations with the AI system.

“I’m envious of the current generation of 20-year-old dropouts,” the OpenAI CEO told Rowan Cheung during an interview at the DevDay conference on Monday. “Because the amount of stuff you can build… the opportunity space is so incredibly wide.”

OpenAI will soon allow “erotica” for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform. In an X post on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will add support for mature conversations when it launches age-gating in December.

OpenAI says it will soon roll back some of ChatGPT's safeguards, and even allow the chatbot to engage in erotica for adult users.