Overview
- Parents can now link their accounts to a teen’s account to set quiet hours, enforce stricter content settings, disable voice and image generation, turn off memory, and control data use.
- For linked teen accounts, ChatGPT blocks sexual, romantic or violent roleplay and filters categories such as viral challenges and extreme beauty ideals.
- A trained review-and-notify system flags suspected acute self-harm risk and, if confirmed, alerts linked parents by email, SMS and push, while withholding full chat transcripts to protect teen privacy.
- For sensitive or emotionally charged topics, ChatGPT can switch in the background to a reasoning model or a GPT-5 “chat-safety” variant, a change described publicly by ChatGPT head Nick Turley.
- The features are live in multiple markets including Germany, with automated age estimation still in development and ongoing questions about detection reliability and privacy trade-offs.