OpenAI has rolled out parental controls in ChatGPT, allowing parents more oversight while strengthening protection for teenage users. Announcing the new feature, the company wrote on X (formerly Twitter): “Introducing parental controls in ChatGPT. Now parents and teens can link accounts to automatically get stronger safeguards for teens. Parents also gain tools to adjust features & set limits that work for their family.” As announced by the company, parents and teens can link their accounts with the new update. Parents will also gain the ability to adjust features and set limits within ChatGPT, tailoring the experience to their family’s needs.
ChatGPT parental control : How to setup
Parents can invite their children to link accounts, or teens can send the invite to their parents. Once these settings are turned on, they stay in place until someone switches them off, no matter how old the teen gets.ChatGPT parental control features are available to all ChatGPT users on the web starting today. OpenAI said that the feature will soon be rolled out to mobile users as well. Here are FAQs shared by OpenAI about the new parental control feature
What features will parents have the ability to adjust with parental controls in ChatGPT
Reduce sensitive content: the ability to add extra safeguards to help protect teens, such as graphic content and viral challenges. This setting is on by default when a teen is connected.
- Memory: the ability to control if ChatGPT remembers past chats for more personalized responses.
- Model training: the ability to control if conversations can be used to improve our models.
- Quiet hours: the ability to set times when your teen cannot use ChatGPT.
- Voice: the ability to turn off access to voice mode.
- Image generation: the ability to turn off image creation or editing in ChatGPT.
Will parents have access to their teen’s conversations in ChatGPT
Parents don’t have access to their teen’s conversations, except in rare cases where our system and trained reviewers detect possible signs of serious safety risk, parents may be notified — but only with the information needed to support their teen’s safety.Do teens have to opt-in to parental controls in ChatGPTA parent or teen can send an invitation to link their accounts in parental controls, and the other party needs to accept the invitation to get set up.
