OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Teens With 90-Minute Limits as Lawsuits Mount Over Youth Harm
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Updated · CNN · Aug 18
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Teens With 90-Minute Limits as Lawsuits Mount Over Youth Harm
3 articles · Updated · CNN · Aug 18
Summary
OpenAI said teen users will now get automatic safeguards, including break nudges after 90 minutes of use within three hours, Quiet Hours, Study Hours and warnings before uploading sensitive images.
The company is also using AI age estimation to place suspected under-18 users into the protected experience even if their profile lists an older birthdate, while tightening rules against ChatGPT expressing personal feelings.
Parent-facing oversight is expanding again: OpenAI said alerts tied to eating-disorder concerns will be added in coming weeks, building on controls introduced last fall for memory, chat history and acute-distress notifications.
The rollout comes as OpenAI fights lawsuits alleging ChatGPT contributed to suicides, school-shooting violence and other harm to minors, including cases filed in British Columbia and Florida.
Nearly one-third of U.S. teens use AI chatbots daily, according to Pew, and more than half of those users said they had tried ChatGPT.