This has led to concern over the rise of what has come to be called “synthetic media” and “AI slop” which are generated by AI and rapidly spread over social media and the internet. Robin Bauwens, an assistant professor at Tilburg University, found that a ChatGPT-generated peer review report on his article mentioned nonexistent studies. ChatGPT also provided an outline of how human reviewers are trained to reduce inappropriate content and to attempt to provide political information without affiliating with any political position. Their leaders emphasized their earlier caution regarding public deployment was due to the trust the public places in Google Search. The company announced a slew of generative AI-powered features to counter OpenAI and Microsoft.
Mental Health
A 2023 study reported that GPT-4 obtained a better score than 99% of humans on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Stanford researchers reported that GPT-4 “passes a rigorous Turing test, diverging from average human behavior chiefly to be more cooperative.” Released in February 2025, GPT-4.5 was described by Altman as a “giant, expensive model”. In March 2023, a bug allowed some users to see the titles of other users’ conversations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that users were unable to see the contents of the conversations.
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- OpenAI acknowledged that there have been “instances where our 4o model fell short in recognizing signs of delusion or emotional dependency”, and reported that it is working to improve safety.
- OpenAI supports limited, no-login access in many regions, so you can try ChatGPT instantly.
- ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and released in November 2022.
- There’s even a Projects feature that keeps all your chats organized, plus a Library to manage all your generated images.
- GPT-5 was launched on August 7, 2025, and is publicly accessible through ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and via OpenAI’s API.
- ChatGPT’s training data only covers a period up to the cut-off date, so it lacks knowledge of recent events.
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Mobile apps
GPT-5 was launched on August 7, 2025, and is publicly accessible through ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and via OpenAI’s API. In 2025, OpenAI added several features to make ChatGPT more agentic (capable of autonomously performing longer tasks). Users interact with ChatGPT through conversations which consist of text, audio, and image inputs and outputs. OpenAI collects data from ChatGPT users to further train and fine-tune its services. By January 2023, ChatGPT had become the fastest-growing consumer software application in history, gaining over 100 million users in two months. As of 2025, ChatGPT’s website is among the 5 most-visited websites globally, and has over 800 million active weekly users.
Model versions
This includes text-to-image models such as Stable Diffusion and large language models such as ChatGPT. As of 2023, there were several pending U.S. lawsuits challenging the use of copyrighted data to train AI models, with defendants arguing that this falls under fair use. In August 2024, the FTC voted unanimously to ban marketers from using fake user reviews created by generative AI chatbots (including ChatGPT) and influencers paying for bots to increase follower counts. These limitations may be revealed when ChatGPT responds to prompts including descriptors of people. In one instance, ChatGPT generated a rap in which women and scientists of color were asserted to be inferior to white male scientists. Despite this, users may “jailbreak” ChatGPT with prompt engineering techniques to bypass these restrictions.
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- As of July 2025, Science expects authors to release in full how AI-generated content is used and made in their work.
- Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “fathers of AI”, voiced concerns that future AI systems may surpass human intelligence.
- The fine-tuning process involved supervised learning and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).
- In one instance, ChatGPT generated a rap in which women and scientists of color were asserted to be inferior to white male scientists.
- The laborers were exposed to toxic and traumatic content; one worker described the assignment as “torture”.
- ChatGPT was initially free to the public, and OpenAI planned to monetize the service later.
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Age restrictions
The Pro launch coincided with the release of the o1 model, providing unlimited access to o1 and advanced voice mode. It is designed to generate human-like text and can carry out a wide variety of tasks. I’ve covered the models and modes above, but here’s a reminder of all the core features (as of October 2025).
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- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that users were unable to see the contents of the conversations.
- OpenAI said it has taken steps to effectively clarify and address the issues raised; an age verification tool was implemented to ensure users are at least 13 years old.
- The integration used ChatGPT to write prompts for DALL-E guided by conversations with users.
- Despite decades of using AI, Wall Street professionals report that consistently beating the market with AI, including recent large language models, is challenging due to limited and noisy financial data.
- It is designed to generate human-like text and can carry out a wide variety of tasks.
- These limitations may be revealed when ChatGPT responds to prompts including descriptors of people.
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Artificial Intelligence
In June 2023, hundreds of people attended a “ChatGPT-powered church service” at St. Paul’s Church in Fürth, Germany. In January 2023, the International Conference on Machine Learning banned any undocumented use of ChatGPT or other large language models to generate any text in submitted papers. Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “fathers of AI”, voiced concerns that future AI systems may surpass human intelligence. A May 2023 statement by hundreds of AI scientists, AI industry leaders, and other public figures demanded that “[m]itigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”. In late March 2023, the Italian data protection authority banned ChatGPT MonacoJack in Italy and opened an investigation.
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