Over one million people each week show disturbing indications of chats with ChatGPT

More than one million ChatGPT users each week send messages that include clear indications of the planned or possible suicide targets. The discovery, part of an update on how the chatbot handles sensitive conversations, is one of the most direct statements by the artificial intelligence giant on the scale of how IA [...]
In addition to its assessment of suicide ideas and related interactions, the OpenAI also said that around 0.07% of active users in a particular week of about 650,000 of its 800 million weekly users show possible signs of mental health emergencies associated with psychosis or mania.
The post warned that these conversations were difficult to detect or measure, and that this was an initial analysis. As OpenAI publishes data on mental health problems associated with its known product, the company is facing a growing review following a much-published indictment by the family of a teenage boy who died of suicide after a widespread commitment to ChatGPT.
The Federal Trade Commission also launched a broad investigation into companies establishing artificial intelligence chatbots, including OpenAI, to find out how they measure negative effects on children and teenagers.
OpenAI claimed in her post that her recent GPT-5 update reduced the number of undesirable behaviors from her product and improved user safety in a model assessment involving more than 1,000 self-launch and suicide.












