{"id":4705,"date":"2026-08-20T18:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:07:37","slug":"openai-doesnt-want-your-kids-dating-its-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4705","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Doesn\u2019t Want Your Kids Dating Its Chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>OpenAI released what it is presenting as a teen-friendly version of its popular artificial intelligence chatbot aimed at protecting teens from harmful online content.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4703\">RFK Jr.\u2019s Son Put On Russia\u2019s Wanted List<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The AI company announced ChatGPT for Teens, new version of ChatGPT for kids between ages 13 and 17, on Tuesday. This teen mode automatically enrolls users under 18 and features more parental control features. This arrived the same day as Meta\u2019s $1.4 trillion social media addiction trial began in Oakland, CA, where California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey claim Meta used harmful practices to harm youth, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>ChatGPT should not use romantic language, encourage emotional dependence, or imply that it has feelings or consciousness,\u201d OpenAI said in its Tuesday announcement. \u201cThese stronger protections are designed to reinforce healthy, real-world relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chatbot in teen mode is guided by several Under-18 Principles. These include an emphasis to seek real-world connections for support, reminders to teen users that the chatbot is not human, and prohibiting the chatbot from partaking in activities like \u201cimmersive romantic roleplay, first-person intimacy, or pairing the assistant romantically with a teen,\u201d or \u201cromanticizing or providing instructions on self-harm or suicide,\u201d according to OpenAI\u2019s outline of the teen model\u2019s \u201cintended behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AI firm said the teen experience adds to the company\u2019s efforts to support children with its services. <strong>(RELATED: Meta Heads To Trial After Court Says It Can\u2019t Hide Behind Section 230)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpenAI, the same company whose chatbots coached multiple kids to commit suicide and self-harm, now wants parents and teachers to trust them to protect and teach vulnerable teens,\u201d Daniel Cochrane, Senior Fellow with the Family First Technology Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew and Marie Raine\u2019s son Adam committed suicide in April 2025 after ChatGPT allegedly assisted him in the act, leading the family to sue the AI company, Reuters reported. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cChatGPT began discussing suicide methods and provided Adam with technical specifications for everything from drug overdoses to drowning to carbon monoxide poisoning,\u201d in Jan. 2025, the family\u2019s complaint against OpenAI alleged.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to prevent Big AI from peddling dangerous, manipulative chatbots to kids and require them to implement rigorous third-party pre-deployment safety testing,\u201d Cochrane told the DCNF. He called on legislators to require AI companies to face liability if they fail to look out for the best interest of children.<\/p>\n<p>One legal group, which represents the Raine family, thought the announcement was the result of public pressure to make its chatbots safer for children. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4701\">As Hacking Incidents Pile Up, Top AI Lab Pumps The Brakes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpenAI\u2019s announcement today of its \u2018teen experience\u2019 is clear indication the company is feeling the mounting public pressure to create a safer experience for young users of its products,\u201d Meetali Jain, Executive Director of Tech Justice Law, told the DCNF. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo truly demonstrate its commitment to safety, the company should be open about how it builds its products and plans to operationalize its proposed safeguards, as well as commit to independent third-party testing,\u201d Jain told the DCNF. \u201cAs long as these companies are self-policing, we will never be able to hold them to their word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah  the \u201cSAFE KIDS Act,\u201d in June. The bill would mandate AI companies to include parental control and child safety settings when designing their chatbots, conduct independent audits of the products, and prevent children\u2019s data from being shared. <\/p>\n<p>The bill would further restrict AI companies from allowing chatbots to \u201clead a child of the same age as the user to believe that they are interacting with a human,\u201d according to the bill.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI, Character.AI, the Social Media Victims Law Center, Edelson PC, ParentsTogether, CodeAI, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and the office of Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah each did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission\u2019s Office of Public Affairs declined to comment. <\/p>\n<p>Child-safety advocacy groups feel parents should be skeptical before allowing their children to use ChatGPT\u2019s teen mode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on our prior testing of ChatGPT\u2019s teen protections, we have questions about these new features\u2019 safety and efficacy we\u2019d want to see answered before families put trust in them,\u201d Robbie Torney, Common Sense Media\u2019s Head of AI &amp; Digital Assessments, told the DCNF. He said <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have learned from social media that parental controls don\u2019t help most families because people don\u2019t understand or adopt them. While we think distinct, age-appropriate experiences for minors is the right direction for chatbots, there is a lot we still need to know about the new ChatGPT for teens,\u201d Torney added. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4699\">REPORT: DEA Probes Hayden Panettiere\u2019s Death As Investigation Intensifies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Caller is a 24-hour news publication providing its audience with original reporting, thought-provoking commentary and breaking news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1183,1342,300],"class_list":["post-4705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-artifical-intelligence","tag-chatgpt","tag-openai"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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