OpenAI tightens ChatGPT’s limits on weapons and past mass attacks

ChatGPT will stop giving teenagers practical information about weapons and security systems, even when a question looks harmless, OpenAI said on Friday. The limit applies to teen accounts with no sign of violent intent. OpenAI announced the change in a blog post, alongside a promise to publish a Community Safety Report on violence prevention. It made more than 200 referrals to law enforcement in the third quarter, the company said. The new safeguards will start rolling out in the next few weeks. For all users, ChatGPT will give less detail about past mass attacks and the people who carried them out, even when that detail is available elsewhere online. It will not reconstruct an attack, including which weapons the attacker used and how they got them.