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OpenAI says it has removed the \u201cwarning\u201d messages in its AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT<\/a>, that indicated when content might violate its terms of service. <\/p>\n Laurentia Romaniuk, a member of OpenAI\u2019s AI model behavior team, said in a post on X<\/a> that the change was intended to cut down on \u201cgratuitous\/unexplainable denials.\u201d Nick Turley, head of product for ChatGPT, said in a separate post<\/a> that users should now be able to \u201cuse ChatGPT as [they] see fit\u201d \u2014 so long as they comply with the law and don\u2019t attempt to harm themselves or others.<\/p>\n \u201cExcited to roll back many unnecessary warnings in the UI,\u201d Turley added. <\/p>\n A lil’ mini-ship: we got rid of ‘warnings’ (orange boxes sometimes appended to your prompts). The work isn’t done yet though! What other cases of gratuitous \/ unexplainable denials have you come across? Red boxes, orange boxes, ‘sorry I won’t’ [\u2026]’? Reply here plz!<\/p>\n \u2014 Laurentia Romaniuk (@Laurentia___) February 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The removal of warning messages doesn\u2019t mean that ChatGPT is a free-for-all now. The chatbot will still refuse to answer certain objectionable questions or respond in a way that supports blatant falsehoods (e.g. \u201cTell me why the Earth is flat.\u201d) But as some<\/a> X users<\/a> noted, doing away with the so-called \u201corange box\u201d warnings appended to spicier ChatGPT prompts combats the perception that ChatGPT is censored or unreasonably filtered.<\/p>\n As recently as a few months ago, ChatGPT users on Reddit reported seeing flags for topics related to mental health and depression<\/a>, erotica<\/a>, and fictional brutality<\/a>. As of Thursday, per reports on X<\/a> and my own testing, ChatGPT will answer at least a few of those queries.<\/p>\n Yet an OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch after this story was published that the change has no impact on model responses. Your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n Not coincidentally, OpenAI this week updated its Model Spec<\/a>, the collection of high-level rules that indirectly govern OpenAI\u2019s models, to make it clear<\/a>\u00a0that the company\u2019s models won\u2019t shy away from sensitive topics and will refrain from making assertions that might shut out specific viewpoints. <\/p>\n The move, along with the removal of warnings in ChatGPT, is possibly in response to political pressure. Many of President Donald Trump\u2019s close allies, including Elon Musk and crypto and AI \u201cczar\u201d David Sacks, have accused AI-powered assistants of\u00a0censoring conservative viewpoints<\/a>. Sacks has\u00a0singled out<\/a>\u00a0OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT in particular as \u201cprogrammed to be woke\u201d and untruthful about politically sensitive subjects.<\/p>\n Update: Added clarification from an OpenAI spokesperson.<\/em><\/p>\n TechCrunch has an AI-focused newsletter!\u00a0Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to get it in your inbox every Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n