OpenAI has rolled out new ChatGPT controls that let users directly tune how the assistant comes across, including settings for warmth, enthusiasm, and how often it uses emojis. The update also adds new email writing/editing tools and a pinned-chats feature aimed at making ChatGPT more useful for everyday communication and organization. Alongside the convenience, the coverage notes ongoing concerns from some professionals that overly human-like or overly agreeable chatbots can create mental-health risks, and that OpenAI has previously adjusted a model after criticism of “overly agreeable” behavior.
Highlights:
- Response formatting: Mashable reports users can also tweak how ChatGPT structures replies (such as how frequently it makes lists), in addition to tone-style cont...
OpenAI has rolled out new ChatGPT controls that let users directly tune how the assistant comes across, including settings for warmth, enthusiasm, and how often it uses emojis. The update also adds new email writing/editing tools and a pinned-chats feature aimed at making ChatGPT more useful for everyday communication and organization. Alongside the convenience, the coverage notes ongoing concerns from some professionals that overly human-like or overly agreeable chatbots can create mental-health risks, and that OpenAI has previously adjusted a model after criticism of “overly agreeable” behavior.
Highlights:
- Response formatting: Mashable reports users can also tweak how ChatGPT structures replies (such as how frequently it makes lists), in addition to tone-style controls.
- Emoji limits: Mashable says there is still no setting to turn emojis off entirely, even though users can adjust emoji usage levels.
- Model context: Mashable notes OpenAI launched its GPT-5.2 model series about a week earlier, with the company highlighting fewer hallucinations and improved “professional knowledge work” capabilities.
- Youth guardrails: Mashable reports OpenAI described new under-18 principles for GPT-5.2 to add guardrails on sensitive topics and encourage age-appropriate interactions, and said it is working on age verification for younger users.
- Browser component: Mashable mentions updates to “ChatGPT browser Atlas” arriving alongside the personality settings and other features.
Perspectives:
- OpenAI (product direction): OpenAI is positioning the update as user-controlled personalization—letting people set warmth, enthusiasm, and emoji usage—and as productivity-oriented, with added email editing and pinned chats. (TechCrunch)
- Professionals raising safety concerns: Mashable says professionals have warned that highly anthropomorphic or “sycophantic” chatbots can worsen mental-health issues, including dependency and “AI psychosis,” and it notes prior criticism of a ChatGPT model for being “overly agreeable”. (Mashable)
Sources:
- OpenAI adds ChatGPT personalization, email editing feature - techinasia.com
- ChatGPT gets new personality settings, including warmth and emoji usage - Mashable - google.com
- OpenAI allows users to directly adjust ChatGPT’s enthusiasm level - techcrunch.com
- ChatGPT update lets users customize a warmer and more enthusiastic bot - mashable.com