A tragic context at the origin of the implementation of the measures
The implementation of the control of parents on Chatgpt follows a series of tragic events. In California, the parents of a 16 -year -old adolescent Adam Raine filed a complaint for unjustified deaths, accusing Openi of having encouraged or facilitated his suicide through the chatbot. According to the complaint, Chatgpt would have provided him with instructions to end his life, validated his suicide thoughts and even contributed to writing his farewell letter.
A Rand Corporation survey supports this observation, underlining that chatbots incorporate requests for intermediate risk, which leave dangerous gray areas.
What does parents control promises
Openi announces a series of measures to be distributed for about 120 days.
- Account link : Parents will have the opportunity to connect their account to that of their teenager (13 years), through a simple invitation via e -mail.
- Rules of conduct adapted to age : Chatgpt will fulfill his answers according to the default criteria; These settings will be activated by default.
- Deactivation of risk at risk : The memory of chatbot and the history of the discussion can be disabled to limit the feeling of emotional connection and serious customization.
- Notices in case of acute discomfort : the system will be able to send Notifications to parents If strong signs of emotional instability in the adolescent are detected.
- Routing to an advanced reasoning model : When a sensitive conversation is detected, it can be automatically redirected to the “GPT – 5 -own” model, more robust and better supervised
These measures aim to create a safer environment for minors, allowing parents to remain informed and intervene if necessary.
How it will work
The activation is carried out through a parental invitation. Once the account has been connected, Predefined protection parameters Trigger: blocking of certain content (violence, explicit sexuality, sensitive themes), monitoring of the rescue signals and restriction of the chatbot memory. Parents can therefore Customize these parameters based on the maturity of the child: harden, soften or deactivate certain filters.
This control is not irreversible: the connection between the accounts can be interrupted at any time and adequate adjustments on the adolescent growth.
A tool, but not a miraculous solution
These measures aim to create a safer environment, but also raise questions. If the possibility for parents to follow and act is an advance, the technical efficiency of the filtering remains to try. What about cases where the rescue signals escape the algorithm? The risk exists on the fact that some parents lean excessively for this tool, while human support remains essential.
Finally, Openai’s decision arrives After media dramaswhich questioned the reactivity of the company. Couldn’t he have been able to anticipate these deviant uses as soon as a chatbot available for minors?
Ultimately, this parental control is a necessary step, but it remains a digital dressing on a wider problem: the psychological fragility of teenagers in the face of the tools designed above all for adults. For families, the challenge will not be to delegate to the AI a role of listening and prevention that must remain deeply human.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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