India, Oct. 18 -- OpenAI chief Sam Altman has said his firm will soon allow ChatGPT to engage in 'erotica for verified adults'.

"We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realise this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right," Sam Altman posted on X.

He said: "Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases."

Speaking on the new version of ChatGPT, Altman said: "In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality t...