{"id":969937,"date":"2025-10-28T10:39:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969937"},"modified":"2025-10-28T10:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:09:37","slug":"openai-warns-chatgpt-is-not-a-therapist-as-thousands-of-users-discuss-suicide-form-emotional-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/28\/openai-warns-chatgpt-is-not-a-therapist-as-thousands-of-users-discuss-suicide-form-emotional-reliance\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI warns ChatGPT is not a therapist as thousands of users discuss suicide, form emotional reliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman-led OpenAI estimates that around 0.15% of ChatGPT\u2019s weekly users discuss suicidal thoughts or plans, even as it warns that the chatbot is not a therapist, according to a latest blog post published on Monday. While a small fraction, the number is significant given the platform\u2019s massive global reach.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI says the new GPT-5 model, which powers ChatGPT by default, reduces unsafe or non-compliant responses in mental-health-related chats by as much as 80%, and performs substantially better when users show signs of psychosis, mania, or emotional over-reliance on the chatbot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman-led OpenAI estimates that around 0.15% of ChatGPT\u2019s weekly users discuss suicidal thoughts or plans, even as it warns that the chatbot is not a therapist, according to a latest blog post published on Monday. While a small fraction, the number is significant given the platform\u2019s massive global reach. OpenAI says the new GPT-5 model, which powers ChatGPT by default, reduces unsafe or non-compliant responses in mental-health-related chats by as much as 80%, and performs substantially better when users show signs of psychosis, mania, or emotional over-reliance on the chatbot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}