ChatGPT rolls out new parental controls

ChatGPT’s new parental controls have arrived

ChatGPT’s new parental controls have arrived.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, said Monday that parents can now link their accounts designed for minors 13 to 17 years old. The new chatbot accounts will limit answers related to graphic content, romantic and sexual role-play, viral challenges and “extreme beauty ideals,” OpenAI said.

Parents will also have the option to set blackout hours where their teenager can't use ChatGPT, to block it from creating images and to opt their child out from AI model training. OpenAI uses most people’s conversations with ChatGPT as training data to refine the chatbot.

The company will also alert parents if their teenager’s account indicates that they are thinking of harming themselves, it said.

The new controls come as OpenAI has faced pressure around child safety concerns.