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OpenAI said it will introduce parental controls for its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, aiming to enhance protections for teenage users amid growing scrutiny over its handling of vulnerable individuals.
OpenAI’s blog post stated the new tools are expected to launch “within the next month,” allowing parents to link their accounts to those of teens aged 13 and above, enforce age-appropriate model behaviour rules, disable features like memory and chat history, and receive automatic notifications if their child shows signs of acute emotional distress.
OpenAI to add more robust reasoning models
To handle sensitive situations more effectively, the company will also route such conversations to more robust “reasoning” models.
The update follows a lawsuit filed by the parents of a 16-year-old California teen who died by suicide, alleging that ChatGPT provided harmful and detailed instructions that exacerbated the outcome.
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