Meta is officially rolling out new parental controls that make it easier to keep tabs on the conversations teens are having with the company’s AI. Meta revealed the news in a blog post on Thursday, which comes six months after the company’s original announcement. But while additional parental controls are promising, will this be enough to address the greater issues at play with young users and AI?
How Meta’s new AI parental controls work
According to Meta, parents using the “supervision” feature on Facebook, Messenger, or Instagram now have an “Insights” tab as part of supervision. If you select this tab, you’ll see all the topics your teen or teens have been chatting with their AI bots about over the past seven days. There are a number of topics that can appear here, including “School,” “Entertainment,” “Lifestyle,” “Travel,” “Writing,” and “Health and Well-being.”
These are just the surface topics, however. If you tap
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