OpenAI Adds Parental Safety Controls for Teen ChatGPT Users. Here’s What to Expect

OpenAI’s review process for teenage ChatGPT users who are flagged for suicidal ideation includes human moderators. Parents can expect an alert about alarming prompts within hours.

Starting today, OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT safety tools intended for parents to use with their teenagers. This worldwide update includes the ability for parents, as well as law enforcement, to receive notifications if a child—in this case, users between the ages of 13 and 18—engages in chatbot conversations about self harm or suicide.

These changes arrive as OpenAI is being sued by parents who allege ChatGPT played a role in the death of their child. The chatbot allegedly encouraged the suicidal teen to hide a noose in their room out of sight from family members, according to reporting from The New York Times.

As a whole, the content experience for teens using ChatGPT is altered with this update. "Once parents ...