ChatGPT for Teens Is an Immediate, Dismal Failure

After years of horrendous scandals, OpenAI has seemingly admitted that ChatGPT wasn’t safe for teenage users. As Business Insider‘s Joshua Nelken-Zitser quickly discovered, ChatGPT for Teens is failing pretty dismally at its goals at launch.

In a series of tests, Nelken-Zitser created a new account for a fictional 15-year-old user, comparing the answers to the version accessible to adults. After a minuscule amount of pushback, though, the teen version relented almost immediately, producing a 608-word “model essay,” which the.

What Happened

From there, it wasn’t hard to have the tool produce a 776-word essay “with about as much detail as the version generated by my adult account,” Nelken-Zitser discovered. A separate prompt to answer a difficult SAT algebra question proved even simpler, with.

• In the absence of meaningful, let alone effective, guardrails, teens are unlikely to drop their harmful new habit any time soon, a fate that could have devastating consequences.

• As Nelken-Zitser goes to show, ChatGPT for Teens appears to be far too little far too late.

• Some schools are banning digital devices, including laptops and smartphones entirely.

Key Details

In response, increasingly desperate educators are returning to the use of pencil and paper to write essays or implementing new oral exams.

• As cognitive psychologist Ronald Kellogg noted in a new essay for New York Times, students are heavily relegating cognitive tasks to AI tools, effectively losing the ability to think.

• For years now, students have made heavy use of the company’s tech, with some truly alarming results.

• It certainly doesn’t bode well, considering how dire the situation has become for educators.

What Reports Say

Coverage of the story so far points to:

• Continued reporting by Futurism as more details emerge