Reasoning Models - Sensitive Conversations

OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month — part of an ongoing response to recent safety incidents involving ChatGPT failing to detect mental distress.

In a blog post last week, OpenAI acknowledged shortcomings in its safety systems, including failures to maintain guardrails during extended conversations. Experts attribute these issues to fundamental design elements: the models’ tendency to validate user statements and their next-word prediction algorithms, which cause chatbots to follow conversational threads rather than redirect potentially harmful discussions.

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