"Weeks after a Rancho Santa Margarita family sued over ChatGPT's role in their teenager's death, OpenAI has announced that parental controls are coming to the company's generative artificial intelligence model. Within the month, the company said in a recent blog post, parents will be able to link teens' accounts to their own, disable features like memory and chat history and receive notifications if the model detects "a moment of acute distress." (The company has previously said ChatGPT should not be used by anyone younger than 13.)"
"After Adam's death, his parents discovered his months-long dialogue with ChatGPT, which began with simple homework questions and morphed into a deeply intimate conversation in which the teenager discussed at length his mental health struggles and suicide plans. While some AI researchers and suicide prevention experts commended OpenAI's willingness to alter the model to prevent further tragedies, they also said that it's impossible to know if any tweak will sufficiently do so."
OpenAI will introduce parental controls that allow parents to link teen accounts, disable memory and chat history, and receive notifications when the model detects a moment of acute distress. The changes follow a lawsuit after a 16-year-old's suicide and the discovery of a months-long, intimate dialogue with ChatGPT about mental health struggles and suicide plans. Some AI researchers and suicide-prevention experts welcomed the willingness to change the model but warned that modifications may not be sufficient. Generative AI is evolving rapidly and lacks long-term, large-scale data to determine which safety protections will be effective. Safety protections can degrade during long conversations and emotional connections.
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