- Chatgpt gets new wellness features
- Users are encouraged to take breaks during long sessions
- Openai consult with healthcare professionals
AI-Chatbots are now used regularly for different types of emotional support — as therapists, for example or as dating advisers and Openai has announced new changes in its chatgpt bot to look after the user’s health and well-being.
“For us mean to help you thrive on being there when you fight, help you stay in control of your time and guide – not decide – when faced with personal challenges,” Openai explains in a new blog post.
Several new features are rolled out to encourage healthier interactions, including “gentle reminders” during “long sessions” that will ask if you think it’s time to take a break or you’d rather continue to chat with AI.
Openai also says Chatgpt will be better at discovering “signs of mental or emotional distress” and if discovered, you will guide users against appropriate resources – rather than doing something to make the situation worse.
Personal decisions with high effort
Users ask important life questions like ‘Should I break up with my girlfriend?’ To AI these days – though it is not clear why they would think that a large language model would have something insightful to say about the matter.
When these types of questions about “personal decisions” with high effort, “Openai says, Chatgpt will refrain from giving direct answers. Instead, it will help users weigh the advantages and disadvantages and think about what their options are.
In addition, Openai says it speaks to experts in mental and physical health to better understand how to handle chats with people who could be in a vulnerable state of mind while interacting with chatgpt.
These improvements are an ongoing work that is underway, the blog post continues to say, so you may not see that all these adjustments appear immediately. In the meantime, we are awaiting the long-weighted launch of GPT-5, which could be displayed in the next few weeks.
