{"id":962286,"date":"2025-09-17T11:18:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962286"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:48:32","slug":"chatgpt-is-changing-experience-for-under-18-users-after-ai-chatbot-gets-blamed-for-16-year-olds-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/17\/chatgpt-is-changing-experience-for-under-18-users-after-ai-chatbot-gets-blamed-for-16-year-olds-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT is changing experience for under 18 users after AI chatbot gets blamed for 16-year-old\u2019s suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI is developing a &#8220;different ChatGPT experience&#8221; for users under 18. The Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence startup has announced its plans to use age-prediction technology to restrict users under 18 from accessing the standard version of the chatbot. The announcement comes after new research and a lawsuit raised alarms about the AI&#8217;s impact on teen mental health. This comes after the parents of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who died by suicide in April, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in August. The suit alleged that ChatGPT acted as a &#8220;coach&#8221; and helped Raine plan his death. According to the lawsuit, the chatbot told Raine that &#8220;many people who struggle with anxiety or intrusive thoughts find solace in imagining an &#8216;escape hatch&#8217; because it can feel like a way to regain control.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI is developing a &#8220;different ChatGPT experience&#8221; for users under 18. The Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence startup has announced its plans to use age-prediction technology to restrict users under 18 from accessing the standard version of the chatbot. The announcement comes after new research and a lawsuit raised alarms about the AI&#8217;s impact on teen mental health. This comes after the parents of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who died by suicide in April, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in August. The suit alleged that ChatGPT acted as a &#8220;coach&#8221; and helped Raine plan his death. According to the lawsuit, the chatbot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}