OpenAI says GPT-5.2 is safer for mental health. What does that mean?

Today, OpenAI launched GPT-5.2, touting its stronger safety performance in regard to mental health."With this release, we continued our work to strengthen our models' responses in sensitive conversations⁠, with meaningful improvements in how they respond to prompts indicating signs of suicide or self-harm, mental health distress, or emotional reliance on the model," OpenAI's blog post states.OpenAI has recently been hit with criticism and lawsuits, which accuse ChatGPT of contributing to s