Initially available to the public at no cost, ChatGPT continues to offer a limited free version. Businesses are permitted by OpenAI to customize how their content shows up in the results of ChatGPT Search and to affect the selection of sources. The capability to search the web enables ChatGPT to provide responses that are more current and accurate. Commonly utilized for tasks like summarization and translation, ChatGPT can also replicate interactive scenarios, including a Linux terminal, a chat room for multiple users, or simple games like tic-tac-toe. Based on advanced language model (LLM) technology, ChatGPT functions as a chatbot assistant.
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YouTube Help chat is designed to instantly assist creators with their questions and issues regarding YouTube products, all through a chat experience. For certain creators, you may first experience an AI-enhanced chat support that is available for immediate assistance. You can contact Creator Support in the Help Center or click Chat in the top-right side of YouTube Studio to quickly get your support questions answered or issues resolved. To get the appropriate support, make sure you’re signed in to the channel that’s eligible for support (such as one in the YouTube Partner Program). If you’d like to cancel and remove access to YouTube TV right away, get in touch with our support team. According to a September 2025 article in Lancet Psychiatry, many individuals use ChatGPT and comparable chatbots for mental health and emotional support despite a warning from OpenAI against using ChatGPT as a therapist.
Kevin Roose of The New York Times called it «the best artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public». The laborers were exposed to toxic and traumatic content, including child sexual abuse, zoophilia, murder, suicide, torture, self-harm, and incest. Reinforcement learning consisted of human trainers ranking responses generated by the model in previous conversations. In September 2025, following the suicide of a 16-year-old, OpenAI said it planned to add restrictions for users under 18, including the blocking of graphic sexual content and the prevention of flirtatious talk. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that users were unable to see the contents of the conversations.
The FTC asked OpenAI for comprehensive information about its technology and privacy safeguards, as well as any steps taken to prevent the recurrence of situations in which its chatbot generated false and derogatory content about people. Italian regulators assert that ChatGPT was exposing minors to age-inappropriate content, and that OpenAI’s use of ChatGPT conversations as training data could violate Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation. ChatGPT also provided an outline of how human reviewers are trained to reduce inappropriate content and to attempt to provide political information without affiliating with any political position. The Help Center offers content to help you with questions, instructions, and general information about using YouTube, whether you are a viewer or a creator. Some creators will get AI-enhanced chat support for instant help.
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The Guardian questioned whether any content found on the Internet after ChatGPT’s release «can be truly trusted» and called for government regulation. The ChatGPT-generated avatar told the people, «Dear friends, it is an honor for me to stand here and preach to you as the first artificial intelligence at this year’s convention of Protestants in Germany». In June 2023, hundreds of people attended a «ChatGPT-powered church service» at St. Paul’s Church in Fürth, Germany. Opinions are especially varied on what constitutes appropriate use of ChatGPT in education. The potential benefits include enhancing personalized learning, improving student productivity, assisting with brainstorming, summarization, and supporting language literacy skills. In an industry survey, cybersecurity professionals argued that it was attributable to cybercriminals’ increased use of generative artificial intelligence (including ChatGPT).
A May 2023 statement by hundreds of AI scientists, AI industry leaders, and other public figures demanded that «mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority». In Australian tennis news July 2023, the FTC launched an investigation into OpenAI over allegations that the company scraped public data and published false and defamatory information. In October 2025, OpenAI banned accounts suspected to be linked to the Chinese government for violating the company’s national security policy.
In July 2025, OpenAI released ChatGPT agent, an AI agent that can perform multi-step tasks. It has two versions, one running in a virtual machine in the cloud, and one where the agent runs in the cloud, but performs actions on a local machine connected via API. It is capable of writing software, answering codebase questions, running tests, and proposing pull requests.
When enabled in developer mode, this allows for improved third-party access to ChatGPT tools and servers. Several studies have shown that ChatGPT can outperform Google Translate in some mainstream translation tasks. In December 2023, the Albanian government decided to use ChatGPT for the rapid translation of European Union documents and the analysis of required changes needed for Albania’s accession to the EU. ChatGPT (based on GPT-4) was better able to translate Japanese to English when compared to Bing, Bard, and DeepL Translator in 2023. An app for Windows launched on the Microsoft Store on October 15, 2024. In September 2025, OpenAI added a feature called Pulse, which generates a daily analysis of a user’s chats and connected apps such as Gmail and Google Calendar.
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An early workaround in 2023 involved prompting ChatGPT to assume the persona of DAN («Do Anything Now»), a character that answers queries that would otherwise be rejected by the content policy. The term «hallucination» as applied to LLMs is distinct from its meaning in psychology, and the phenomenon in chatbots is more similar to confabulation. These limitations may be revealed when ChatGPT responds to prompts including descriptors of people.
In March 2023, a bug allowed some users to see the titles of other users’ conversations. A 2025 analysis by The Washington Post estimated that ChatGPT started its responses with words like «yes» or «correct» almost 10 times more often than «no» or «wrong». ChatGPT and other chatbots have a tendency to flatter and agree with users even when they are wrong, sometimes to the point of validating delusions. The training data of large language models only covers a period up to the cut-off date, so ChatGPT lacks knowledge of recent events, but it can search the web for up-to-date information.
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