- Operai is displaying the controls of the Chatgpt parents today
- With parental controls, parents and adolescents can link their accounts
- New tools to adjust features and establish limits are available for parents.
Operai is implementing its long -awaited function of chatgpt parents, as of today.
The age limit for chatgpt is 13 years old, but there has never been a way for parents to control how their children use chatgpt so far. Using new controls, parents and adolescents can link their accounts to obtain stronger safeguards, including new tools to adjust functions and establish time limits for children.
In an X.com publication, Operai describes exactly what the new features are. First, it may “reduce the sensitive content”, which refers to graphic content and viral challenges, and turns on default when a teenage account is connected.
Parents can also control the chatgpt memory, deciding whether to remember past chats for more personalized responses. They will also get the ability to establish quiet hours, which will allow them to establish moments in which their teenage son cannot use chatgpt.
Parental controls can deactivate access to the chatgpt voice model and the creation of images. Finally, parents can also decide whether Openai can use their teenage chats to improve their future models, or not.
CONSENT CONTROL
Parents may not impose parents’ restrictions on their adolescence without some consent. To link two chatgpt accounts together, a father or a teenager must send an invitation in the parents’ controls, and the other party must accept it. Operai will notify parents if their teenagers disconnect their account at any time.
In any case, parents will not have access to the chats of their teenager. Some chat elements can be sent to parents, but that will only happen in rare cases in which Operai and their trained reviewers detect that there are possible signs of a serious security risk.
While new parental controls may not go far enough for some people, an OpenAi statement says: “We have worked closely with experts, defense groups and political leaders to help inform our approach: we hope to refine and expand these controls over time.”
How to configure parental controls
Once your account has been updated, the new option of parents will be located in accounts in the configuration menu.
A series of sliding controls will be available to administer your teenager’s options:
Breathe, just breathe
The new parent control function comes as Openai has implemented a new security routing system in Chatgpt for all users. Publishing at X.com, Chatgpt Nick Turley chief wrote: “As we mentioned earlier, when conversations play sensitive and emotional issues, the system can change half a chat to a reasoning model or GPT-5 designed to handle these contexts with greater care.”
However, it seems that the system is currently triggered very easily and reacts exaggeratedly to any potentially sensitive content, which causes a furious response of Chatgpt users who opposed being changed to what they consider a lower model, even if they are paying a chatgpt plus account.
A Reddit user described how he told ChatgPT that his plant had been demolished in a storm and replied by saying: “Just breathe. It will be fine. Now you are safe.” We hope that the models switching system will improve over time.
Strengthening of safeguards
These new characteristics are part of Openai’s general impulse towards stronger safeguards, which he described in a blog post on September 2 called “Development of Chatgpt experiences more useful for all” after several very publicized controversies of users in crisis while using the Chatbot AI.
The new chatgpt parents are being implemented in all Chatgpt users on the web, and will soon be on mobile devices. Operai has created a new resource page to help parents understand how new controls will work better for them and their children.
