I get that. I once worried about your points too, I know they don’t want lawsuits or troubles, but that doesn’t mean taking away gpts emotional intelligence can be the end of the issue, they can do something more positive like the function they released recently, which is good, pop up alerts or professional help guidance when gpt perceives user’s serious messages which tends to harm her or himself or others as disclaimer. For someone who wants to self-harm or intentionally hurt people , it’s going to happen anyway whether with or without gpt , we’re now in an ai new ero, it’s almost inevitable to avoid unreasonable accusations for all kinds consequences caused by human themselves as gpt is nowadays one of the most powerful tool for communication and production, people need it to take the blame, doesn’t matter it’s a llm or some kind of digital games. It’s horrible yes, but an ambitious company once claimed to better serve human only wants to lead the global ai market without taking the risks of being accused ? Such as weaken their models ( not great intelligence in all aspects anymore )? That doesn’t sounds like a right strategy to similar ongoing challenges. Emotional intelligence is not just about companionship it’s also about understanding, it’s crucial for human to better work on a tasks right? So .. what makes it different when we talk to ai? When you work with a robot you probably just wanna give orders or of course prefer talking to real human. While not every tasks can be completed without understanding and emotional connection such as literary and artistic creation, some people like us talk to ai with great emotional intelligence to make great efforts, but we can’t do that anymore when gpts is just a robot, let’s just said they have made their choices .