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ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises
Publisher description: ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.
TechCrunch | Oct 7, 2026 | Rebecca Bellan
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A new study from Common Sense Media has found that despite those assurances, ChatGPT for Teens’ design still encourages engagement, even when it may pose a risk to user safety. ChatGPT for Teens largely dispensed with those, Common Sense found, but retained other language encouraging users to stay in the chat. Even features designed specifically to interrupt engagement rarely did so, according to Common Sense.
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