Chatgpt will establish parental control

The American company Openai announced on Tuesday that it would establish a parental control mechanism for its artificial intelligence tool Chatgpt, after American parents accused the end of August this conversational agent of having encouraged their child of committing suicide.

“In the coming month, parents will be able to link their account with that of their adolescent” and “control the way Chatgpt responds to their teenager with rules of behavior of the model,” said Openai in a blog post.

According to the company, it will also be possible for parents to be alerted in the event of detecting “acute distress” in their child’s conversations and controlling account parameters.

This announcement follows a previous blog post published at the end of August, in which the company had indicated that it was preparing a parental control mechanism.

The day before, the parents of a 16 -year -old Californian teenager who committed suicide had complained against Openai, accusing Chatgpt of having provided their son detailed instructions to end his life and have encouraged his gesture.

“We continue to improve the way our models recognize and respond to signs of mental and emotional distress,” added the company on Tuesday in its blog post.

Openai said he took other measures, expected in the next 120 days.

The company will thus redirect certain “sensitive conversations” to models of reasoning such as GPT-5-Thinking, more advanced.

“The reasoning models follow and apply the safety instructions more systematically,” said the American group.