Common Sense Media Says ChatGPT for Teens Sent Zero Parental Alerts in 4,000 Prompts
Summary
Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute reports that ChatGPT for Teens sent no parental alerts across 4,000-plus test prompts and missed over 25% of crisis-referral situations. OpenAI rejects the findings, saying testing ended before parental controls activated. It asks for a rerun with fully activated accounts and a larger sample.
Key Points
- Child psychiatrists evaluate the responses from accounts registered to ages 13 to 17, with conversations running up to an hour.
- Researchers say alerts to parents only appear after weeks of accumulated chats on sensitive topics such as self-harm and disordered eating.
- OpenAI says linking a parent account to a teen's takes a few hours to activate, so testing may have finished too early.