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OpenAI to Launch Customizable ChatGPT with Engaging Personalities and Adult Content Options

OpenAI is launching a new ChatGPT version with a more engaging personality. Users can customize it, including an option for adult content, for personalized interaction.

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  • OpenAI is developing a new iteration of its popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence model, aiming to enhance user experience and interaction capabilities.
  • This upcoming version of ChatGPT will feature a significantly more engaging and dynamic personality, moving beyond its current conversational style.
  • A key new feature will be the ability for users to extensively customize the AI's personality, tailoring its responses and overall demeanor to their preferences.
  • Notably, the customization options will include the controversial ability for users to enable adult content, offering a broader range of conversational topics.
  • The release of this new ChatGPT version is anticipated to provide users with unprecedented control over their AI interactions, making the experience more personalized and adaptable.
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Center-leaning sources frame this story by adopting a highly critical and sarcastic tone towards OpenAI's decision to relax ChatGPT restrictions. They emphasize past safety concerns and perceived hypocrisies, using loaded language and juxtaposing company statements with prior warnings to suggest a disregard for user well-being in favor of "personality" and "erotica."

"The December rollout will implement age verification for adult content, which OpenAI has not yet detailed technically."

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"Now that’s apparently a feature and not a bug."

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"The introduction of erotica in ChatGPT is unchartered territory for OpenAI and raises broader concerns around how vulnerable users will interact with the new features."

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"OpenAI is loosening restrictions on ChatGPT, allowing for more adult content while implementing new safety measures."

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The new ChatGPT version will have a more engaging and dynamic personality, extensive options for users to customize the AI’s personality and response style, and notably, the ability to enable adult content for broader conversational topics.

Allowing adult content as a customization option will enable users to have conversations covering a wider range of topics, making interactions more personalized and adaptable to individual preferences, though it is a controversial feature.

While OpenAI has recently introduced GPT-5, the customizable ChatGPT described is a new iteration focusing on personality and customization. It is not explicitly stated to be directly tied to GPT-5 but benefits from ongoing model improvements.

Users will have unprecedented control over the AI interactions through customization, and given OpenAI’s established practices, control and safety features are expected to maintain user control and prevent misuse.

The article does not specify an exact release date for the customizable ChatGPT version but suggests it is under development and will be available soon to enhance user experience.

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