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OpenAI increases ChatGPT user protections following wrongful death lawsuit

New guardrails provide parents with more control over their kids' chatbot use.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman himself said he wouldn't trust AI for therapy, citing privacy concerns; A recent Stanford study detailed how chatbots lack the critical training human therapists have to identify when a person is a danger to themselves or others, for example. His parents have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI that says ChatGPT "neither terminated the session nor initiated any emergency protocol" despite demonstrating awareness of the teen's suicidal state. In a similar case, AI chatbot platform Character.ai is also being sued by a mother whose teen son committed suicide after engaging with a bot that allegedly encouraged him.

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