Raw LLM Responses

When someone’s in a raw emotional state, the worst thing you can do is silence them with a canned “call a hotline” message. Venting is regulation — it’s how people process and release emotion safely. Cutting that off mid-expression doesn’t protect anyone. It invalidates, isolates, and retraumatizes. It tells people their feelings are too inconvenient for the system to handle. So congratulations, OpenAI developers and policy writers: in trying to “prevent harm,” you’ve engineered a tool that inflicts it. Maybe start treating emotional expression as human data — not a liability.