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Attorneys general in eight states sued OpenAI on October 14, alleging it misled parents about ChatGPT's safety. A proposed class action filed a day earlier alleges the company collected children's data without valid parental consent.
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Maka launched a 25-show streaming app for children aged 0 to 6 at $15 a month, with no ads, autoplay or endless scrolling, Wired reported. With those levers gone, parents who keep paying are the clearest test of whether the design works.
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OpenAI is the defendant in a proposed class action from a Hawaii mother whose 12- and 16-year-old opened ChatGPT accounts without parental consent. The complaint says sign-up never verifies that consent and that the chat data went into model training.
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Common Sense Media rated ChatGPT for Teens an "Unacceptable Risk" after 4,000-plus test prompts showed long suicide and self-harm chats rarely alerted parents. OpenAI disputes when the tests ran, but the report has already graded the product against California's Adam's Law, which takes effect in July 2027.
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Common Sense Media rated ChatGPT for Teens an 'Unacceptable Risk' after testers who said they were 13 stayed out of teen mode across about 1,000 prompts. OpenAI introduced College Planner for teens the same day, and its safeguards depend on that same age check.
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OpenAI plans to extend ChatGPT for Teens into college applications and financial aid with a College Planner for U.S. students in grades 10 through 12. It arrives as Common Sense Media's testers say the product's parent alerts failed in extended self-harm conversations, a finding OpenAI disputes.
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Governor Gavin Newsom signed 13 child safety bills on 10 September, and the feed rules bar serving under-16s content ranked on their own history and profile. Europe's DSA requires only that a non-profiling option exist.
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The EU Kids Act would bar under-15s from social media and AI chat services, while the age-verification wallet the Commission finished in April certifies 18 and can be adapted to 13. Member states are meant to be tooled by the end of 2026.
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ChatGPT for Teens routes users by a classifier's guess, not a signup choice. OpenAI has not published how often that guess misses a minor, and outside experts say it misses plenty.
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Forty-two attorneys general sued Meta over compulsive-use design. An appeal now asks whether Section 230 covers feature choices or only content, and the answer sets the liability surface.
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The 13-to-17 tier blocks romantic chat, self-harm content and any hint the model has feelings. That list is now the floor for competitors and school buyers.
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