This article was originally posted on Northeastern Global News by Cody Mello-Klein.
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Parents could soon have more control over how their children interact with ChatGPT. OpenAI claims it will be rolling out parental controls for its AI chatbot aimed at giving parents more oversight.
OpenAI’s announcement comes in the wake of two parents filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the company for what they claim is ChatGPT’s role in their 16-year-old son’s suicide. The lawsuit itself comes at a time when concern is mounting about how people interact with artificial intelligence chatbots and their tendency to mishandle sensitive, and potentially fatal, conversations.
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