OpenAI to implement parental controls

OpenAI, the AI ​​market leader and developer of ChatGPT, announced last week that it will implement parental controls to supervise children and adolescents’ use of the platform.

This is a reaction to growing social and legal concern “about the potential adverse effects of chatbots on adolescents’ mental health, especially following the recent complaint filed by the parents of a 16-year-old boy who took his own life in California, who hold the GPT-4 model responsible.”

OpenAI issued a statement from its San Francisco headquarters, describing the move as a first step in strengthening its approach, “guided by experts, with the goal of making ChatGPT as useful as possible.”

The new parental control features will go into effect next month and “will allow parents to link their accounts with their children’s accounts, in order to monitor the content of interactions and receive alerts if signs of emotional instability are detected in minors.”

These features involve various mechanisms aimed at improving safety during ChatGPT use by minors, such as the ability for parents to “access their children’s conversation history with the system, as well as sending automatic notifications when artificial intelligence identifies signs of an emotional state that may require intervention.”

The company has been working to detect warning signs and potential emotional dependence of users on AI-based assistants, which could pose a risk to young people’s emotional and social development.

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Source: eltiempo

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