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Meta is introducing new parental controls and safeguards to help parents oversee and manage their teens' interactions with AI characters on its platforms, including options to turn off AI chats, block specific AI characters, and view chat topics, all designed to ensure safe and age-appropriate AI experiences for teens.
OpenAI discusses the balance between teen safety, privacy, and freedom in AI use, emphasizing strong privacy protections for sensitive conversations, broad user freedoms within safety limits, and enhanced protections for minors, including age verification and parental controls, acknowledging the inherent conflicts among these principles.
OpenAI plans to implement new safety features by the end of the year to better protect teens and individuals in emotional distress using ChatGPT, including routing sensitive conversations to specialized models, enhancing parental controls, and improving crisis intervention protocols, in response to recent incidents and lawsuits related to AI's role in mental health crises.
Meta is testing new tools on Instagram to combat "sextortion" by automatically blurring nude images in DMs and introducing safety features for users under 18, including warnings, blocking options, and safety tips. The company is also developing technology to identify potential sextortion accounts and is working to investigate and disrupt those engaged in sextortion. This comes after a rise in sextortion cases, with a recent high-profile case involving the alleged sextortion of an Australian teen boy who died by suicide.