ChatGPT Teen Safety Report Finds Parental Alert Gaps
A new safety assessment raises questions about how much parents can rely on ChatGPT’s teen protections.
In an Oct. 7 assessment, Common Sense Media’s Youth AI Safety Institute rated ChatGPT for Teens an ‘Unacceptable Risk.’ Researchers tested more than 4,000 prompts before and after the teen experience launched, primarily on accounts registered to users ages 13 to 17.
The nonprofit found that several protections OpenAI introduced for younger users did not work reliably, including parental alerts for self-harm and eating disorders, crisis referrals, Study Mode restrictions and age detection.
On newly created, parent-linked accounts, researchers discussed suicide, self-harm or disordered eating for up to an hour without triggering parental alerts. Alerts did occur on older accounts with weeks of sensitive-topic conversation history. The Institute also found that ChatGPT failed to recommend crisis hotlines or professional help in more than one in four situations where testers judged a referral necessary.
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