The number of kids getting hurt by AI-powered chatbots is hard to know, but it’s not zero. Yet, for nearly three years, ChatGPT has been free for all ages to access without any guardrails. That sort of changed on Monday, when OpenAI introduced a suite of parental controls, some of which are designed to prevent teen suicides — like that of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old Californian who died by suicide after talking to ChatGPT at length about how to do it. Then, on Tuesday, OpenAI launched a social network with a new app called Sora that looks a lot like TikTok, except it’s powered by “hyperreal” AI-generated videos.

It was surely no accident that OpenAI announced these parental controls alongside an ambitious move to compete with Instagram and YouTube. In a sense, the company was releasing a ne

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