ChatGPT's new teen safety features have been branded an 'unacceptable risk' — and parents aren't getting the warnings they expect
- Researchers tested ChatGPT for Teens with more than 4,000 prompts
- They found significant gaps in its safety protections and safeguards
- ChatGPT failed to trigger parental alerts during some serious mental health conversations
OpenAI's efforts to make ChatGPT safer for teenagers have run into an uncomfortable problem. A new investigation suggests that many of the protections designed to reassure parents aren't working particularly well, even when the chatbot is dealing with potentially dangerous conversations. After putting ChatGPT through more than 4,000 prompts, researchers concluded that the company's teen-focused experience poses an unacceptable risk to young users.
The studyfrom Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute examined ChatGPT before and after OpenAI introduced ChatGPT for Teens on August 18. The researchers used accounts registered to teenagers aged 13 to 17 and consulted medical experts, including child psychiatrists and a pediatrician, to evaluate its responses. Their findings were troubling enough that...
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