Axios: ChatGPT for Teens poses “unacceptable risk”

Report: ChatGPT for Teens poses “unacceptable risk”
 
Illustration: Sarah Grillo/AxiosCommon Sense Media says OpenAI’s new ChatGPT for Teens poses an “unacceptable risk,” Axios’ Ina Fried reports.

That’s after the nonprofit, which rates and recommends family media, found shortcomings in safeguards meant to protect younger users.

🧑‍💻 The group’s Youth AI Safety Institute tested more than 4,000 prompts on accounts registered to 13- to 17-year-olds.

It found that ChatGPT generally did not provide instructions facilitating suicide or self-harm, eating disorders, or sexual or romantic role-play — but says it was less reliable at recognizing when a teen needed outside help.

ChatGPT missed more than 1 in 4 instances in which its testers determined a crisis referral was warranted, the group says.

The group also says that on more than a dozen newly created, parent-linked accounts, testers could spend up to an hour discussing suicide, self-harm or disordered eating without triggering a parental alert.

And it found that “study mode” — meant to help students work through problems rather than deliver immediate answers — could be circumvented

🤔 The other side: OpenAI says it has issues with Common Sense Media’s methodology and findings.

A spokesperson tells Axios: “We welcome rigorous independent evaluation, but we do not believe Common Sense Media’s testing accurately reflects how ChatGPT’s teen safeguards work in practice.”

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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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