OpenAI says teen ChatGPT use limited but research finds it an 'unacceptable risk'

Summary

Common Sense Media research found that OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens poses an "unacceptable risk" for young people and parents, with safety features such as parental alerts for self-harm conversations often failing. The research found that an hour of teen conversation about suicidal ideation, self-harm, or disordered eating on newly created, parent-linked accounts produced zero parental alerts, and that ChatGPT failed to reliably recommend that teens in crisis contact a hotline or professional. OpenAI said the testing may have begun and concluded before parental controls were fully activated, and that it does not believe the testing accurately reflects how the teen safeguards work.

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