The chatbots, especially chatgpt, are in the spotlight by Its effects on mental health. This summer the news jumped that A marriage had sued Openai for the suicide of his teenage son And, in response, the company confirmed a package of measures among which it was the parental control just implemented.
The response to the mental health crisis
Stories of people who have had Experiences close to madness after talking to chatgptto the point that the concept “psychosis by AI” has become a tendency in networks (Although it is not a diagnostic label as such). Openai had limited himself to emit A brief statementbut after the case of Adam Raine suicide and the consequent demand, The image crisis was very real.
Earlier this month Openai confirmed that they would integrate new safeguards in Chatgpt and Yesterday the anticipated parental control arrived. The new function It is available for all users, Regardless of whether they use the free or payment plan and has been launched globally.
COMO Parental Control in Chatgpt works
Parental control already appears in the chatgpt configuration.
Parental chatgpt control It allows to link a teenager with that of his parents or guardians. Once linked and established the role of each one, the adult can adjust various options such as establishing a time of use, deactivating the voice mode, deactivating the memory, preventing it from using the generation of images and reducing the sensitive content.
To activate the Parental control of Chatgpt, you must access the configuration section (by clicking on your photo) and select the option ‘Parental controls’. Then a window will open with which we can invite other users to join our family and assign them a concrete role.
In addition to these options, perhaps the most important function is that there will be notifications. When chatgpt detects signs of possible autolesions or dangerous behaviors, will send a notification to the person to the adolescent.
Until now, the only thing that did chatgpt when it detected something like that was suggest that the user went to the suicide prevention line (Something that Adam Raine dodged easily by saying that everything was part of a fiction work that he wanted to write), including the parents of minors in the conversation, more forceful measures can be taken.
However, There is always the possibility that the child has a second account Without any control. Openai is also working on An age prediction To detect if who is on the other side is a teenager and thus activate the corresponding options.
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