Introducing Parental Controls – ChatGPT

OpenAI is launching new parental control features to help parents manage and customize their children's interactions with ChatGPT. These features are designed to provide a safer and more age-appropriate experience while still allowing flexibility for adult users.

Here’s a quick summary of the key points:

1. Content Moderation for Younger Users: ChatGPT now includes extra safeguards for younger users to ensure that content remains safe and appropriate. These filters block harmful, explicit, or sensitive content to protect kids.
2. Customizable Content Control: Parents can adjust the filters to block specific types of content, such as violence, explicit language, or other sensitive topics, giving them more control over what their child can access.
3. Activity Monitoring and Notifications in parental controls: Parents can monitor their children's use of ChatGPT and receive notifications about potentially sensitive content. This includes a new notification system designed to detect distress in teens, such as thoughts of self-harm. If serious concerns are identified, a trained team will review the situation, and parents will be alerted via email, text, and phone (unless opted out). This system is designed to protect teen safety, with safeguards in place to minimize false alarms.
4. Flexible Experience for Adults: Adults (18+) will have fewer content restrictions, enabling a broader and more flexible use of ChatGPT, while still maintaining general safety measures.
5. Feedback and Improvements: OpenAI will continue to improve these parental control features, using feedback from users to refine and enhance the controls.
6. Availability: These features will be gradually rolled out, with plans for global accessibility in the future.

This update is designed to give parents more control over their child's interaction with ChatGPT, ensuring a safer and more appropriate experience.

You can read the original article from our DfL partner, OpenAI: Introducing parental controls | OpenAI. Parents can refer to the guide on how to activate these protection settings.