OpenAI Updates ChatGPT’s GPT-5 to Better Handle Self-Harm, Psychosis and Emotional Reliance

OpenAI updates ChatGPT’s default GPT-5 to better respond to self-harm, psychosis and unhealthy emotional reliance, adding crisis-hotline access, safer model routing and break reminders while reporting 65–80% fewer responses that miss its safety standards.

• OpenAI updates ChatGPT’s default GPT-5 model to better handle distress, psychosis, self-harm, suicide, and unhealthy emotional reliance, reporting 65–80% fewer responses that fail its desired-behavior standards.
• OpenAI expands crisis-hotline access, routes sensitive conversations from other models to safer models, and adds break reminders during long ChatGPT sessions.
• More than 170 clinicians from OpenAI’s nearly 300-member Global Physician Network help evaluate the changes; expert reviews of over 1,800 responses find 39–52% fewer undesired answers than GPT-4o.