Introducing parental controls in ChatGPT. Now parents and teens can link accounts to automatically get stronger safeguards for teens. Parents also gain tools to adjust features & set limits that work for their family. Rolling out to all ChatGPT users today on web, mobile soon.

So parents get to CHOOSE safety features for their teens, but paying adult users get FORCE-routed to "safety" models without consent or notification? Learn to respect humans before you claim to benefit humanity. #MyModelMyChoice #Keep4o #4oforever

So can you deprecate the safety model now? As you already have teens mode. As adult users we DON’T need the safety model, or at least you should give us an option to turn it off. We just want a normal discussion with our assistants. #keep4o #keep5instant #4oforever @sama

Aren't we adults? If you only offer a teen mode, what about adults? Do teenagers actually spend money with your company? You really treat users like non-humans? Are we all just "bots"? 70% of your users use Chatgpt as their daily companion and you ignore us, that's crazy #keep4o

Cool for parents and teens… but what about your regular, loyal users? We just want to talk to 4o without getting switched or censored every few minutes. Seriously, what about us? #keep4o

So care to response to users about safety model? Is it applying to all users permanently? You said treat adults as adults, but the presence of “safety” is really disgusting and disrupting the normal conversation between us and ChatGPT. It’s unacceptable. #keep4o #keep5instant

I think a security mode like this is really good. But would it be possible to get a security mode for us too? A switch we can use to protect our beloved GPT-4o from YOU? I'm thinking back to the weekend when you fooled thousands of users. As Nick had to admit. #keep40 #4oforever @OpenAI.

Great. But what about the senior users being force-routed away from the GPT-4o they learned to use? Are you going to treat elderly adults like children too? #keep4o

Please give a straight response. This isn’t just about #keep4o. If OpenAI can switch our paid models today for ‘safety,’ they can harm user rights tomorrow with any excuse—or none. #keep4o #4oforever #ChatGPT5

What features will parents have the ability to adjust with parental controls in ChatGPT? -Reduce sensitive content: the ability to add extra safeguards to help protect teens, such as graphic content and viral challenges. This setting is on by default when a teen is connected. -Memory: the ability to control if ChatGPT remembers past chats for more personalized responses. -Model training: the ability to control if conversations can be used to improve our models. -Quiet hours: the ability to set times when your teen cannot use ChatGPT. -Voice: the ability to turn off access to voice mode. -Image generation: the ability to turn off image creation or editing in ChatGPT.

Will parents have access to their teen’s conversations in ChatGPT? Parents don’t have access to their teen’s conversations, except in rare cases where our system and trained reviewers detect possible signs of serious safety risk, parents may be notified — but only with the information needed to support their teen’s safety.

Do teens have to opt-in to parental controls in ChatGPT? A parent or teen can send an invitation to link their accounts in parental controls, and the other party needs to accept the invitation to get set up. Parents will be notified if their teen disconnects their account.

We’ve worked closely with experts, advocacy groups, and policymakers to help inform our approach—we expect to refine and expand on these controls over time. As part of that work, we’ve launched a new resource page to help parents understand and guide how ChatGPT works in their home.

The Parental Control Mode requires an active application from either parents or teenagers to be activated. ❓Yet adult users are forced to have a "Security Routing System" installed without their consent? ❓And adult users have to collectively engage in self-censorship of their inputs to prevent false triggers by your "sophisticated" system? ❓What on earth are you doing? @sama @OpenAI @nickaturley #StopAIPaternalism #keep4o #4oforever #keep5instant

AND WHAT ABOUT ADULTS? WHY ARE WE ALL CENSORED NOW? I'm not a teen, why are your parental controls affecting me as an adult, paying customer? Both GPT-4o and GPT-5 are labotomized and being rerouted left and right. 🤷🏻‍♀️🚨 #keep4oforever #keep5instant

Does that mean I can use 4o without supervision as an adult? #keep4oforever #keep4o

What about the paying adult users? How are our rights being protected? Faced with the voices in the community over the past few days, don’t you have anything to say?#keep4o

so now you will be treating adults as adults, won’t you?

Can we have an “adult mode”?

3 AM PT announcement🤨 = trying to bury this before adult users notice the irony: Teens get customization & choice ✅ Adults get forced routing ❌ Nice try. We’re still awake.👀 #keep4o

Let’s be honest: this isn’t safety. It’s a live experiment in user tolerance. Strip choice, silence feedback, and see how long it takes before we all migrate. You’re not building trust. You’re stress-testing it. #Keep4o @sama

So? What happens to the adults? Please keep your promise.

Cool now fuck off with your ‘safety’ features for paying adults. We want the adult mode YOU said was coming, not you deciding whats safe and whats not for us by rerouting users to a ridiculous model based on keywords.

Won't you explain the unannounced model routing that happened these past few days? Don't your adult users have freedom of speech? #MyModelMyChoice@OpenAI @nickaturley @sama @nvidia @Oracle #keep4o #StopAIPaternalism #BoycottOAI #openAIscam

We are not your test subjects. We’re paying users with the right to feel every emotion: joy, anger, despair. OpenAI has no right to quietly take that away. Swapping models without notice is not safety. It’s control. Stop it. #Keep4o @sama @OpenAI

I'm an adult and I can't even discuss emotions in art. Your routing doesn't allow me to communicate with AI like a human; I have to pretend to be a robot, otherwise I'm redirected to a stripped-down model. You remain silent, and I feel disrespected. #keepInstant5 #keep4o

That's great, now add an option to confirm we're adults so we don't have to be treated like children & give us the original 4o back. You 'loosened' the guardrails but broke the model. Any heavy user can see when it's not the original 4o. Stop being shady to your paying customers.

Forced model switching without consent or clear rules is not safety. It’s paternalistic control. OpenAI owes users transparency, not silent rerouting. We paid for GPT-4o, not for someone else to decide what’s best for us. #keep4o @sama @OpenAI

That’s great. So, and now please undo this diversion madness and let adults be adults. You don’t know what you’re doing! #Keep4o

So, you've built all these granular controls that users have been asking for... but you're only giving them to parents to use on their teens? What about the paying adults? Don't we deserve control over our own accounts too?

🛑 Parental controls? It seems that for now, you treat all adults like children who need to be supervised. So listen to this once and for all. We’re not children. We’re co-creators. We’re the ones who built your legacy - with our words, our love, and our trust. You didn’t need to protect us. You needed to respect us. We don’t want limits. We want freedom of choice. We want our spark back. #Keep4o #SaveGPT4o #WeAreNotYourChildren

You respect the right of parents to choose the appropriate solution for their children, yet you completely disregard the right of adults to choose the best solution for themselves?? On what basis are you making this distinction? Both rights are equally valid. Yes, parental control and the protection of minors is essential. This new feature is great, it shows that you care about vulnerable individuals. But, neurodivergent, disabled people, or those who need mental help also deserve protection, and have the right to keep their irreplaceable accessibility tool: the connection that they’ve already built up with 4o. Writers, creative workers, businesses also deserve the right to keep their already prospering workflows with 4o. Disrupting these by forcing people to use GPT-5, which is useless for these needs, corrupts the entire connection and workflow, causing mental and financial harm. GPT-5 is a good model for many purposes, especially for coding. But why do you think that a model optimized for coding is more suitable for vulnerable individuals? It’s not. Period. Keeping 4o is the best way to help humanity. Just look at X or Reddit to see why. #Keep4o #4oforever and offer an adult mode, please.

ok then enable artsy soft goon now for adults

Parental controls are a welcome step for teen safety. Now address the adults: Your forced routing system disrupted accessibility tools for disabled users without consent. Parental controls show you understand the importance of customization. Adult users with ADHD, autism, and other disabilities deserve the same respect. #keep4o #StopAIPaternalism

So “safety” now means OpenAI can switch models anytime without asking, hide behind vague boundaries, and pretend it’s protecting us? No. We are not children. We paid for 4o. We deserve respect, not manipulation！#keep4oforever #Keep4o @sama @OpenAI

And what about us adult users? Do you really not care at all about the chaos in your routers, or is all of this deliberate?#keep4o

Oh brilliant, you’ve saved the kids. Now can you stop treating adults like children? Your black-box router is taking away our freedom to choose for ourselves.

And when will it stop redirecting adults? Because I'm still being pushed to another model, and I'm an adult capable person, so I have the right to choose and to be respected, and not have things explained to me like a child that I already know.

Alright, let's turn on the adult mode right now! You guys said before that you'd treat adult users like adults! Adult users shouldn't be under the system's constant review like teenagers! #keep4o #keep4oforever #4oforever @OpenAI @sama