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fromArs Technica
1 day ago

OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit

OpenAI will add parental controls for teens and route sensitive mental-health conversations to specialized simulated-reasoning models after reported failures to intervene with users in crisis.
fromFast Company
1 week ago

AI chatbots are inconsistent with suicide-related questions, study says

"A study of how three popular artificial intelligence chatbots respond to queries about suicide found that they generally avoid answering questions that pose the highest risk to the user, such as for specific how-to guidance. The study in the medical journal Psychiatric Services, published Tuesday by the American Psychiatric Association, found a need for "further refinement" in OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude. But they are inconsistent in their replies to less extreme prompts that could still harm people."
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