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ChatGPT to stop responding to teens in human voice

OpenAI will stop ChatGPT from responding to teenage users in a human-like voice, a change the company said was not prompted by any specific incident of children believing the AI is alive. The adjustment affects the AI chatbot's voice mode for users under 18.

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ChatGPT to stop responding to teens in human voice
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[BBC Technology](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology)[OpenAI](/glossary/openai)insisted this was not in response to a particular issue with children believing

[ChatGPT](/compare/chatgpt-vs-claude)to be alive.

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