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ChatGPT for Teens is live. Here's how famed parenting expert Emily Oster says parents should approach it.

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ChatGPT for Teens is live. Here's how famed parenting expert Emily Oster says parents should approach it.

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OpenAI seems to have solved the problem of adolescents lying about their age: if they type like they're under 18, it automatically assumes that they are — and restricts them to a teen version of ChatGPT. It's one of the main features boasted by OpenAI's "ChatGPT for Teens," which officially launched in August and was the subject of a parent forum in New York City on October 7.But even with those protections, parents face the harder question of how their kids should actually use AI. "If I had to pick a word for how people are feeling about this moment, it's probably confused and anxious, which is not how we want parents to feel," Emily Oster, the founder of ParentData, a data-driven parenting and pregnancy resource, said at the ChatGPT…

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