ChatGPT rated "unacceptable risk" for teens after parental alerts failed during suicide conversations

The Common Sense Media Youth AI Safety Institute says OpenAI's safeguards for teenage ChatGPT users fall short in critical areas. After more than 4,000 test prompts, the organization rated ChatGPT for Teens an "unacceptable risk" for minors and called for teenagers to be kept off the service until independent testing confirms it's safe. The most damaging finding involves parental alerts.

Across more than a dozen freshly created test accounts linked to parent accounts, explicit conversations about suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders never triggered a notification, The Verge reports. The results suggest that alerts only kick in after weeks of account history involving sensitive topics, not during acute crises. More than one in four situations that should have included a crisis referral failed to point users…