The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition that OpenAI is launching a version of ChatGPT designed for teenagers who are already using it for schoolwork, questions about daily life and even companionship.
An Associated Press dispatch to The Globe reports that Microsoft-back OpenAI says ChatGPT for Teens, which launches Tuesday, is tailored for kids aged 13 to 17 with stronger protections including content restrictions around things such as suicide, self-harm and romantic or sexual chats. It also provides homework and study support designed to help students learn rather than spit out answers and school essays.
The aim is to guide teens toward healthy artificial intelligence use in an age-appropriate environment.
Parents, educators and child-development experts are raising concerns about children's use of AI chatbots, linking them to cheating on schoolwork and even suicide. Teenagers, with their still-developing brains, may be vulnerable to forming unhealthy relationships with AI.
Last year, research from a watchdog group found that ChatGPT would tell 13-year-olds how to get drunk and high, instruct them on how to hide eating disorders and even compose a heartbreaking suicide letter to their parents if asked.
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