OpenAI Faces Backlash Over New Parental Controls Amid Ongoing Safety Concerns

OpenAI has introduced parental controls for ChatGPT and its video generator Sora 2 after a lawsuit alleging the AI contributed to a teen's suicide. The company has also rolled out a series of safety updates, including routing sensitive chats to a stricter reasoning model and testing age‑prediction technology. While suicide‑prevention experts acknowledge progress, they urge faster action, and the plaintiff’s attorney says the changes arrive too late. The new controls let parents limit usage and, in rare high‑risk cases, review chat logs, sparking further debate over the balance between safety and user autonomy. Weiterlesen