OpenAI announced plans to launch a text‑only adult mode for its ChatGPT chatbot, allowing users to engage in conversations with adult themes while still blocking erotic audio, images or video. The move follows internal debate, with an advisory council warning that minors could bypass age checks and that the feature might foster unhealthy dependencies. OpenAI said it is delaying the rollout to focus on improvements such as intelligence gains and better age‑prediction technology, which has misclassified minors as adults about 12% of the time. Parental controls and safeguards remain part of the company’s broader safety strategy. Read more →