London – On Monday, Openai said that she adds parental control to ChatGPT, which are designed to provide adolescents with a popular platform safer and more “more suitable for the age of experience”.
The company takes measures after AI Chatbot security for young users got into the headlines. The dangers of technology have recently been emphasized by a number of cases when adolescents They committed suicide After interaction with ChatGPT.
In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission even Opened a request In several technological companies about potential harm to children and adolescents who use their chat bots of artificial intelligence as partners.
In a message on a blog published on Monday, Openai set out new management elements for parents. Here is a breakdown:
Parental control will be available to all users, but both parents and adolescents will need their accounts to use them.
To start, a parent or guardian must send an email or text message to invite a teenager to connect his accounts. Or a teenager can send an invitation to the parent. Users can send a request by moving to the “Settings” menu, and then to the “Parental Management Elite” section.
Teenagers can disclose their accounts at any time, but parents will be notified if they do it.
According to Openai, as soon as the accounts are related.
Teenagers' accounts will automatically receive additional protection of content, including a decrease in graphic content, viral problems, sexual, romantic or violent role-playing games, and extreme beauty ideals to help maintain their experience in accordance with age, ”the company said.
Parents can choose these filters, but adolescents do not have the opportunity.
Openai warns that such fences are “not reliable and can be circumvented if anyone is intentionally trying to get around them.” This advised parents to talk with their children about the “healthy use of AI.”
Parents receive a control panel where they can configure the settings range, as well as turn off the restrictions on the sensitive content mentioned above.
For example, your teenager does not go to bed after sleep to use Chatgpt? Parents can set a quiet time when you can’t use a chat bot.
Other settings turn on the disabling of AI memory so that the conversations cannot be saved and will not be used in future answers; disconnecting the ability to generate or edit images; disconnection of the voice mode; And abandon the chats used to teach artificial intelligence models ChatGPT.
Openai is also more active when it comes to the fact that parents know that their child can be in distress.
He sets up a new notification system to inform them when something can be “seriously wrong”, and the teenage user may think about causing harm to himself.
A small team of experts will consider the situation, and, in rare cases, that there are “signs of acute disasters”, they will notify parents by e -mail, text messages and put forward a notification on their phone – if the parent has not refused.
Openai said that he would protect the confidentiality of the teenager, only sharing the information necessary for parents or rescuers in order to provide assistance.
“No system is ideal, and we know that sometimes we can raise an alarm when there is no real danger, but we think that it is better to act and warn the parent so that they can intervene, which is silent,” the company said.
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