OpenAI CEO Sam Altman touts his company's newest model, GPT-5, as "a legitimate PhD-level expert in anything, in any area you need." That includes answering questions on topics it previously shunned, like non-violent hate, threatening harassment, illicit explicit content, explicit content involving minors, extremism, and threatening hate. OpenAI manually reviewed the model's responses in these categories, and determined that while they violate its policies, they are "low severity." OpenAI calls GPT-5's compliance with inappropriate requests a "regression," but notes that only those related to threatening hate content and illicit sexual content are statistically significant. Although OpenAI positions all of its models as its best yet, they often have flaws. Still, you'd think that GPT-5's "PhD-level" smarts would make it better at following policies. Poor chatbot behavior is an ongoing and concerning issue across the industry, especially after Elon Musk's Grok went off the rails on...