ChatGPT is designed with built-in restrictions on certain topics, including some political issues and content that could be considered copyright infringement.
October 24, 2025
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General product design feature describing content-moderation restrictions in the ChatGPT system.
OpenAI's initial development approach for large consumer products involved training models on large volumes of copyrighted content without prior approval or payment from all rights holders and later negotiating licensing deals with some publishers.
October 17, 2025
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Characterization of OpenAI's historical data-collection and later licensing practices
A 2025 OpenAI internal report found that GPT-5 Instant and GPT-5 Thinking reduced measured political bias by roughly 30% compared to GPT-4o, and that analysis of real-world ChatGPT usage showed less than 0.01% of responses exhibited signs of political bias.
October 08, 2025
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Reported comparative bias reduction between model generations and measured prevalence of biased responses in user data.
A 2025 OpenAI report found that foreign adversaries increasingly use multiple AI models—commonly using ChatGPT to plan operations and other models to carry them out—to power hacking and influence operations.
September 07, 2025
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Describes a pattern observed by OpenAI of multi-model workflows in hostile cyber and influence activities.
A 2025 OpenAI report found that threat actors use ChatGPT to research and refine phishing automation and then run that automation on other models, including China-based models such as DeepSeek.
September 07, 2025
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Example of a multi-model workflow where one model is used for prompt/research and another for execution.
A 2025 OpenAI report found that nation-state hackers and scam networks are adopting techniques to hide signs of AI-generated content, including instructing models like ChatGPT to alter punctuation to remove telltale markers.
September 07, 2025
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Adversaries are taking steps to evade AI-detection by modifying generated outputs.
OpenAI's ChatGPT includes image-generation capabilities and can be used to produce user-requested images.
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Describes a capability of the ChatGPT platform relevant to digital evidence and content generation.
ChatGPT's "Instant Checkout" feature allows users to request product recommendations via chat (for example, asking for the "best mattress under $1,000") and complete purchases from within the chat interface without navigating outside the app.
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process
Describes the functional behavior of a conversational shopping feature in ChatGPT.
OpenAI reported that ChatGPT had more than 800 million users.
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User-base size reported for the ChatGPT conversational AI product.
ChatGPT Atlas is an AI-powered web browser built around ChatGPT that enables conversational interaction with web pages.
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Product description for the ChatGPT Atlas browser.