OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced Tuesday a series of new user policies, including a commitment to significantly change Chatgpt’s commitment to interact with users under the age of 18.
“We prioritize security before teenagers’ privacy and freedom,” the post reads. “This is a powerful new technology and we believe minors need significant protection.”
Changes to minor users are specifically addressing conversations involving sexual topics or self-harm. Under the new policy, Chatgpt will be trained to no longer have “flirting conversations” with underage users and will place additional guardrails around the discussion of suicide. If a minor uses Chatgpt to imagine suicide scenarios, the service will try to contact the parents, or in particular severe cases, local police.
Sadly, these situations are not assumptions. Openai is currently facing Adam Raine’s parents’ wrongful death lawsuitAfter interacting with Chatgpt for several months, he died of suicide. Another consumer chatbot role. Similar lawsuits. Although it is particularly urgent to consider minor users who are self-harm, the broader phenomenon Chatbot’s delusion It has attracted widespread attention, especially with the continued and detailed interaction of consumer chatbots.
In addition to content-based restrictions, parents who register underage user accounts will have the right to set a “power outage time” while the cathgpt is not available, a feature that was previously unavailable.
New chatgpt policy with Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) announced the title “Checking the Hazards of AI Chatbots” (R-MO) In August. Adam Raine’s father was scheduled to speak at the hearing, along with other guests.
The hearing will also focus on Reuters Investigation The policy documents unearthed clearly encourage sexual conversations with underage users. Yuan Updated chatbot policy After the report.
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Isolating underage users will be a major technical challenge, Openai details its approach In another blog post. The service is “building a long-term system to see if someone is over 18 years old,” but in many ambiguous cases, the system will default rules. For parents concerned, the most reliable way to ensure a minor user is to connect a teen account with an existing parent account. This also enables the system to directly remind parents that teenage users were in trouble at the time.
But in the same post, Altman highlights Openai’s ongoing commitment to user privacy and provides adult users with extensive freedom to choose to interact with Chatgpt. “We realize that these principles are in conflict and not everyone agrees with how we resolve this conflict,” the post concluded.
If you or someone you know needs help, please call 1-800-273-8255 for National suicide prevention lifeline. You can also provide it to 741-741 for free Crisis text line,,,,, Or text or call 988. Outside the United States, please visit International Association for Suicide Prevention Used for resource databases.
