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"Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools"

Huh? Quite the statement when there are still people out there having parasocial relationships with chatbots. This problem is going to get exponentially worse when the chatbots can start to get sexual.

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Especially given this[1].

>> "ChatGPT is trained to direct people to seek professional help," such as the 988 suicide and crisis hotline in the US or the Samaritans in the UK.

>> The company acknowledged, however, that "there have been moments where our systems did not behave as intended in sensitive situations".

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgerwp7rdlvo

What do you mean start? It's been a thing the whole time

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