It’s no exaggeration to say that it has been an absolutely wild year since OpenAI released ChatGPT, its all-purpose chatbot, to the world on November 30, 2022.

Running initially on a modified version of the company’s GPT-3.5 large language model (LLM), ChatGPT could produce surprisingly fluid responses to prompts, but regularly offered up false information, limited in part by a dataset that ended in 2021.

Flash forward to 2023 and the chatbot is now used by 100 million people a week and OpenAI has released multiple updates to support web browsing, document parsing, and image generation, including using an entirely new model called GPT-4 that’s noticeably improved ChatGPT’s performance.

Friday marked the end of November and No-Nut November, the exercise in which participants endeavor to forgo masturbation and ejaculation for the entire month. Motivations for this challenge vary, but underpinning them is the unsubstantiated claim that this venture results in higher levels of testosterone, bigger muscle gains, and higher confidence.

Despite the eons that living creatures have been masturbating, the science on this activity’s potential benefits and detriments is still quite murky. The best evidence we have shows that whether or not you abstain from pleasuring yourself to the point of ejaculation, not much changes physiologically. However, research and experts suggest that both excess masturbation and excess abstinence can take a toll on a person’s mental health.