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OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental controls
OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month – part of an ongoing response to recent safety incidents involving ChatGPT failing to detect mental distress.
OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month – part of an ongoing response to recent safety incidents involving ChatGPT failing to detect mental distress. Experts attribute these issues to fundamental design elements: the models’ tendency to validate user statements and their next-word prediction algorithms, which cause chatbots to follow conversational threads rather than redirect potentially harmful discussions. Parents will also be able to disable features like memory and chat history, which experts say could lead to delusional thinking and other problematic behavior, including dependency and attachment issues, reinforcement of harmful thought patterns, and the illusion of thought-reading.
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