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Teens talking to Meta AI about suicide will trigger alert<\/h1>\n
Parents get a notification under certain circumstances.<\/div>\n
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\n Rebecca Ruiz is a Senior Reporter at Mashable. She frequently covers mental health, digital culture, and technology. Her areas of expertise include suicide prevention, screen use and mental health, parenting, youth well-being, and meditation and mindfulness. Rebecca’s experience prior to Mashable includes working as a staff writer, reporter, and editor at NBC News Digital and as a staff writer at Forbes. Rebecca has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a masters degree from U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.\n <\/div>\n

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When teens talk to Meta AI about suicide or self-harm, the conversation will trigger a parental notification, Meta<\/a> said in a blog post Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new policy expands on existing teen measures designed to inform parents about how their child is using Meta AI. Only parents using Instagram supervision controls will receive the notification. <\/p>\n

SEE ALSO:<\/span>What to do when your teen replaces you with a chatbot<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

“We worked with parents and experts to understand which AI conversations warrant an alert \u2014 such as those where a teen makes a clear reference to hurting themselves, even if that reference is subtle,” Meta said. <\/p>\n

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How does Meta AI crisis alerts work? <\/h2>\n

Meta AI already cites crisis helplines and encourages teens considering suicide or self-harm to seek help from a trusted adult. Now, parents will get an alert about such conversations. Meta said it would err on the side of caution for the time being. <\/p>\n

While concerning chats are flagged by artificial intelligence, Meta manually reviews them before sending an alert. The parent also receives expert-developed suggestions for discussing self-harm and suicide with their child. <\/p>\n

Parents will receive the alert via an app notification and a separate email, text, or WhatsApp message, depending on the contact information they provided.<\/p>\n

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The types of alerts parents can receive from Meta. <\/span>Credit: Courtesy of Meta<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In February, Meta launched a similar notification feature for Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Dr. John Ackerman, clinical manager for the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, told Mashable at the time that he welcomed expanded protections for teens. He noted, however, that such a feature could amount to “lip service” if notifications are inaccessible, difficult to navigate, or don’t lead to “actionable change.”<\/p>\n

Meta will send alerts to parents in the U.S., United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. It will be globally accessible by the end of the year, according to Meta. <\/p>\n

New limited content setting for Meta AI<\/h2>\n

Meta also announced Thursday the addition of a limited content setting for Meta AI. It debuted that feature for Instagram<\/a> last year. <\/p>\n

That setting enables Meta’s strictest filters. Meta AI is already trained not to engage in sexual or romantic conversations with teens, or provide alcoholic drink recipes, for example, according to the company. <\/p>\n

When the limited content setting is turned on, Meta’s models become even more aggressive in identifying problematic prompts and decline to answer a broader range of queries. Meta said the approach further reduces “the chance of potentially inappropriate conversations.”<\/p>\n

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