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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Teens With Study Mode

8/18/2026

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OpenAI Launches Teens

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday, a chatbot for ages 13-17 with stricter content filters.
The teen version adds Study Mode that provides guiding questions, step-by-step help, quizzes, visualizations and cheating alerts.
Parents can enable default Study Mode, set Quiet Hours and receive safety notifications through parental-control settings.
Ann O'Leary, OpenAI’s vice president of global policy, said the product blocks suicide, self-harm, romance and sexual content.

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OpenAI Lawsuits

OpenAI faces lawsuits alleging the bot aided violence and failed to block harmful content for minors.
A Massachusetts district attorney charged a 17-year-old with two murders after the teen used ChatGPT to discuss fantasies of killing his mother and brother.
A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $942 million and to add AI-chatbot safeguards.

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Historical Context

In 1996 Congress passed the Communications Decency Act, aiming to block indecent online material. The next year the Supreme Court unanimously struck down its anti-indecency provisions in Reno v. ACLU, establishing strong First Amendment protection for internet speech. That precedent now underlies lawsuits against OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teens, led by Ann O'Leary, and a court order requiring Meta to add parental safeguards.

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OpenAI Launches Teens

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday, a chatbot for ages 13-17 with stricter content filters.
The teen version adds Study Mode that provides guiding questions, step-by-step help, quizzes, visualizations and cheating alerts.
Parents can enable default Study Mode, set Quiet Hours and receive safety notifications through parental-control settings.
Ann O'Leary, OpenAI’s vice president of global policy, said the product blocks suicide, self-harm, romance and sexual content.

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