OpenAI adds parental controls and ‘child in distress’ alerts to ChatGPT

Openai announced yesterday that he would introduce new parental controls in Chatgpt in a month. The functionality will allow parents to link their own accounts to those of their adolescents and control how the AI ​​chatbot can be used by them.

Among other things, the features of memory and cat history can be extinguished via parental commands, and the system can also send automatic notifications to the parent if it detects that a child is in “acute distress”.

OPENAI also indicates that more security features are underway in the next 120 days in the context of a wider effort to make Chatppt safer to use, and these initiatives are “guided by experts”.

The launch of parental controls comes after Openai was continued in a very publicized case in which the parents of a teenage suicide victim claim that Chatgpt helped him plan and follow his suicide.