Under pressure for allegedly fueling teen suicide, ChatGPT recently unveiled parental controls. I’m the dad of a tech-savvy kid, and it took me about five minutes to circumvent them.

All I had to do was log out and create a new account on the same computer. (Smart kids already know this.)

Then I found more problems: ChatGPT’s default teen-account privacy settings don’t shield young people from some potential harms. A setting to prohibit generating artificial intelligence pictures didn’t always work, for example.

At least ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI is finally acknowledging the kinds of risks AI poses to children, from inappropriate content to dangerous mental health advice. But it appears to be following the same failed playbook as social media companies: shifting the responsibility to paren

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