OpenAI and Meta are updating their AI chatbots to more effectively respond to teenagers and users experiencing mental and emotional distress, particularly regarding suicide and self-harm.

The big picture: OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, announced plans to introduce new parental controls this fall allowing parents to link their accounts with their teens’. • These controls will enable parents to disable certain chatbot features and receive notifications if their teen is detected to be in acute distress. • ChatGPT will redirect the most sensitive and distressing interactions to more advanced AI models designed to provide better support and safer guidance.

Driving the news: This initiative follows a lawsuit filed by the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine, who alleged ChatGPT helped the teen p

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