ChatGPT engagement wanes on `content restrictions’: OpenAI CFO tells investors

ChatGPT users are spending less time on the AI chatbot, parent OpenAI’s finance chief Sarah Friar told top investors in a closed earnings call, according to the tech publication Sources.

The decline in user engagement stems from “content restrictions” imposed in August to avoid risks associated with mental health and emotional dependency, Friar said in the meeting last week. She was responding to queries on the growth momentum of the popular conversational model.

In October, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said his company would loosen these…