'The adolescent whose intellectual life is always accompanied, always guided, always met with a calibrated response, never gets to become her own authority.' 'The adolescent whose intellectual life is always accompanied, always guided, always met with a calibrated response, never gets to become her own authority.' ChatGPT's Teen Mode could deprive teenagers of a fundamental need What young students stand to lose is more than cognitive skill: it's a reliable sense of their own minds I n August, OpenAI launched Teen Mode - a version of ChatGPT in which every user under 18 will automatically be enrolled - a year after a lawsuit alleged that ChatGPT had contributed to the suicide of a 16-year-old named Adam Raine. For years, the tech industry has contested any causal link between its products and the harms named in a wave of similar lawsuits, each alleging that the companies had not merely failed to protect children but had deliberately designed products to exploit them. Teen Mode is a tacit admission of culpability and it reveals what the industry now acknowledges - and doesn't - about its products' negative effects on young users' mental health.

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The "abliterators" are flooding the internet with AI models that never say no, making it easier for people to improve their cyberdefenses--or build a bomb. Devon Thomas hardly seems like a renegade. Members of his bible study group, he tells me, would probably describe him as unfailingly kind and polite. And yet Thomas is doing something that many in the AI world consider borderline blasphemous. His new company, Abliteration AI, removes safeguards from the world's most powerful open-weight models. It also makes these models available to anyone. As someone who covers AI and constantly hears about the need for increased safety, I was fascinated to learn about this subversive business venture.

Many of us are making individual efforts to use our phones less, or to avoid A.I. But we will need to work together. At noon, at six-thirty, and at ten at night, before I shuffle off to bed, my phone automatically shuts off access to all social-media sites. If I want to restore my ability to mindlessly scroll, I have to walk sheepishly to my kitchen and press my phone up against a little plastic square that sits on a high shelf. This humiliation device, called the Brick, limits my screen time to the apps that, in an earlier moment of clarity, I deemed essential: text messages and Apple Books, which, during these Bricked hours, I have been using to dutifully reread " The Brothers Karamazov," prompted more by a sense of shame than by a sincere interest in revisiting the great novels.

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Mali Osmelak never imagined that selling clothes on Vinted would end with a court claim to recover almost £6,000. She started trading on the platform to earn an income while managing Crohn's disease and caring for her four-year-old daughter. But when she became a professional seller in March, she was unable to complete Vinted's verification process, leaving thousands of pounds inaccessible in her Vinted wallet. After several weeks of trying to resolve the issue, Mali took legal action. Vinted says sellers may be asked to complete verification checks to comply with legal and regulatory requirements and 98% of transactions are completed smoothly without needing help from its support team.