ChatGPT Teen Safeguards Can’t Be Half-Hearted: Parmy Olson

Tech companies have a habit of designing safeguards into their services only after users have been harmed. Call it their crisis playbook, and OpenAI is the latest after being sued
over the death of a boy who sought suicide instructions from ChatGPT.

Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman was in Washington DC on Tuesday for a congressional hearing on the matter, but just hours before he’d announced that ChatGPT would start estimating ages and putting strict limits in place if someone appeared to be under 18. For once, it seemed, a tech bro was being responsible.

His company’s new safeguards for teens go part of the way to addressing ...