The update has been made available to all users on Monday and includes a number of configurated options in the chatgpt settings. Parents can determine the hours when a child has no access to the application, and also decide whether a teenager will be able to use the voice mode, generating images or the function of remembering previous conversations.
It also exists Possibility to set the chatbot version with limited contentin which the content related to, among others with diets, sexuality or hate speech.
Security alerts are one of the main elements of the system. If chatgpt detects that a young user may be in a state of mental crisis, the case will be referred for human verification.
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Chatgpt is to be safer
In case of risk confirmed, parents will receive notifications-by e-mail, SMS or directly in the application. As emphasized by Lauren Jonas, head of youth well -being at Openai, Notifications are to provide parents with warning signalswhich will allow you to talk to the child while maintaining his privacy. The company will not provide parents with the content of conversations with chatbot.
The decision to introduce new solutions was made after the lawsuit filed in August by the family of Adam Raine, a high school student in California, who died in April. In court documents, the family accused Openi and the general director of Altman herself that Chatgpt contributed to the isolation of the boy from his family and gave him tips that helped him plan his death.
The case was widely heard in the United States and She evoked a discussion on the responsibility of technology companies for the effects of using their products.
Chatgpt, which since the premiere at the end of 2022 has already won over 700 million users, has long been under the magnifying glass of regulators, parents and mental health experts. In response to these fears, Opeli announces the next steps.
There will be more changes in chatgpt
The company is working on software that It is to predict the age of users and adapt the system response to whether the interlocutor is less than 18 years old.
“We felt pressure and the need to introduce this solution for a long time,” Jonas admitted in a communiqué. She added that Opeli tries to act as soon as possible to provide parents with tools to protect young people in contact with technology that has become a daily companion for many.
