OpenAI wants ChatGPT users to take regular breaks and be less dependent on AI for decision making

Do you spend too much time using ChatGPT, or perhaps you’ve becoming too depending on it to think for you instead of thinking for yourself? These are just some of the dangers that artificial intelligence poses to humanity, and OpenAI seems particularly aware of it. That’s why the team announced upcoming changes to ChatGPT on Monday that strive to support healthier use of the platform.

Among those changes are reminders to put ChatGPT down after long chatting sessions to encourage breaks, improved responses for people who show signs of struggling emotionally or mentally, and providing more helpful responses to personal challenges that let you, the user, think things through instead of being fed a yes-or-no answer.

In terms of support during emotional or mental struggles, OpenAI will be making improvements so that ChatGPT responds appropriately to those struggles and points people in the right direction. As far as solving personal challenges goes, OpenAI says that users shouldn’t depend on a program to decide personal things like “should I break up with my boyfriend?” Instead, ChatGPT should weigh pros and cons and let the user decide.

Since people spend a lot more time using ChatGPT than they need to, whether it’s for daily tasks or just to kill some time, OpenAI wants to incorporate a new pop-up that occasionally reminds users when they should consider stepping away and taking a break from the conversation with ChatGPT.

OpenAI says that they’ve tapped the expertise of psychiatrists, pediatricians, general practitioners, human-computer-interaction researchers, clinicians, mental health experts, and youth development experts, to take a valid and calculated approach to improving the way people interact with ChatGPT.

The focus here seems to be making people less dependent on artificial intelligence, namely ChatGPT, to answer their life’s questions and do life’s work; rather, ChatGPT should be a resource that helps its users power through activities, not a dependency that people forget how to live without.

While OpenAI’s work to improve ChatGPT in this regard is ongoing, it speaks to a bigger problem in artificial intelligence that seems to be growing. People are using it for just about everything in their lives already, and this may only get exponentially worse as time marches on.

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