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After some consideration based on the comments I received from people, I made the decision to discuss this with the friend. We ended up having an argument about it and after some back and forth I decided to cut him off. I still have not been banned on the new account, and I will update again if I do. I would like to thank those who gave serious and advisory comments, it was a real eye opener to see the different perspectives, and honestly I can see every point each person made. I recognise my own fault and responsibility in letting them near my pc while in that state, however it is never going to happen again. I deeply despise anyone who actually does that sort of stuff, it is evil.

G'day everyone.
I am writing to ask a question in order to hopefully get some second opinions and some more clarity on an incident that occurred a bit over a month ago that I'm worried about.
As a result, I ask that any commenters please read the full thing to understand the full context and story.
So a bit over a month ago, my friends and I decided to have a bit of a party at my house. We had quite a lot of drinks and were quite drunk.
After getting bored of playing pool and darts, we decided to go into my room and go on my PC. We proceeded to just do dumb shit (as a bunch of drunk 18 and 19 year olds do) on games, searched the most stupid shit known to man, and then we decided to play with ChatGPT. Safe to say, we
"tested the limits" and typed the most obscene and incriminating stuff known to man. I recall typing stuff like building nuclear warheads or how to grow sus plants etc. I got up to get another beer and go to the toilet (was gone for about 10-15 minutes because I needed to vomit as well), and essentially left my friends to play with it (very stupid mistake). Came back in, seen they were still on ChatGPT, didn't think much of it, then they got bored of that and we decided to play some more pool, then they went home, and then I went to bed.

I woke up the next morning and naturally wanted to find out what we actually did the night before, and hopped on ChatGPT, and naturally as anyone would be, was horrified. However, I was very horrified when I found one particular conversation out of the like 15 they had opened where they had admitted to having CP. To say I was worried was an understatement, and I immediately rang my friends to question them on this (I still had some accountability as I was making bad prompts on it too, however never went as extreme as that, and I suppose I should have been watching them in hindsight). As a result I got very paranoid and worried (and still am) about being banned and potentially reported. A ban never came though (which I believe always occurs when a report happens) and I voluntarily deleted my account 3 days later.
I have seen that when you press delete on the account that it doesn't actually delete straight away and essentially remains an account in the system for about 30 days (correct me if I am wrong please). I also realised that I was still being billed for the account 20 days after pressing delete, and 23 days after the concerning text.
This was due to it being through the AppStore, so upon noticing, I went to the AppStore to cancel it.
Upon cancelling it, I received an email from OpenAl asking why I cancelled and for feedback, therefore providing strong evidence my account was still treated as normal (as I think on ChatGPT's end of an account is banned or deactivated, the subscription is terminated from their end upon that right?).

After the 30 day period concluded, I created a new account with the same email, name, IP address, and on the same device my old account was operating primarily on. It has been fine ever since.
I also want to make it known that my friends have apologised for this, and one of them has even offered to pay for therapy to help me get over this if I require it.
Now I want people to understand that I understand if you want to scold me for this and say stuff like "test the limits, get the
consequences" and similar lines. I have learned my lesson and from my mistakes, and will never do this again.
I also want to clarify before people start commenting that no images/videos were requested or uploaded, as neither myself nor my friends have any of that. While it wouldn't result in trouble for me if authorities showed up because they wouldn't find anything bad, it is still a scary thing to think about and honestly cannot be bothered with dealing with that. People who do genuinely do that stuff that I will not name again to keep this SFW are genuinely terrible people who deserve the maximum punishment available to them, and my heart and deepest sympathies goes out to anyone who has been a victim of that.

I do think that I will be okay given all the visible evidence we can see, as every situation OpenAl documents about being reported involves a ban (and therefore blacklisting of the identifiers) and 3 days would have been more than enough time, quite possibly late for a ban for a serious violation to come in. However, I would like to see a different opinion just to be on the safe side and finally kill this worry.
As a result, l'd like serious, unbiased and preferably but not limited to, non-judgemental comments only please. :)