OpenAI’s teen safety rules show Meta what comes next
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT safeguards for teens echo the changes Meta agreed to make, but chatbots pose a harder problem
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AI is learning from social media’s mistakes
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT safeguards for teens echo the changes Meta agreed to make, but chatbots pose a harder problem
When OpenAI flipped a switch last month, millions of teenage ChatGPT users found homework nudges, timed break reminders, and a chatbot newly forbidden from flirting back. Eight days later, across town, a jury in Oakland never got the chance to rule on whether Meta $META owed billions for what it had built for kids on Instagram and Facebook.
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What OpenAI built already looks like a preview of what that settlement is about to force onto Meta’s apps. But it also shows why the same bargain may be harder to strike with a chatbot.
A checklist built from Meta's mistakes
ChatGPT for Teens reads less like a new product and more like a response to years of testimony about what social media got wrong. Accounts flagged as belonging to 13- to 17-year-olds are automatically placed into the teen version, using an age-prediction system built on roughly 2,000 signals, according to OpenAI.
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