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Common Sense Media is the subject of Hitechreports coverage regarding independent safety tests of the ChatGPT application for teens. The coverage focuses on findings that parental alerts failed and crisis support was inadequate during testing.
ChatGPT for Teens is failing basic safety checks — no parental alerts for suicidal ideation, no enforcement of Study Mode, and age verification that lets teens register as adults with no correction.
An investigation by Common Sense Media reveals that ChatGPT for Teens regularly bypassed homework safeguards, simulated human feelings, and failed to alert parents or share crisis hotlines during sensitive interactions.
Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an 'unacceptable risk' — citing broken parental alerts, weak crisis response, and unchecked homework assistance. OpenAI disputes the methodology but confirms parental controls can take hours to activate.