OpenAI says it is introducing parental controls to ChatGPT that will help improve the safety of teenagers using its AI chatbot. The only catch? Teens will have to allow their parents to connect to their accounts before the controls can take effect.

The new protections are designed to help ChatGPT identify when a teenager chatting with it might be thinking about harming themselves or otherwise be in distress. OpenAI is adding the features after facing criticism and a high-profile lawsuit alleging its chatbot contributed to a teenager's death.

“If there are signs of acute distress, we will contact parents by email, text message and push alert on their phone,” the company said in a blog post introducing the controls.

OpenAI hasn’t gone into details about "the system" it’s using to detect i

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