Overview
Reduce sensitive content adds extra safeguards to help ChatGPT reduce sensitive, explicit, graphic, or otherwise age-inappropriate responses.
For accounts in ChatGPT's teen experience, Reduce sensitive content is on by default. This helps provide a more age-appropriate experience for teens.
When an account leaves the teen experience because it is identified as 18 or older, Reduce sensitive content is turned off automatically. The account holder can then choose to turn it back on from ChatGPT settings.
Reduce sensitive content changes how ChatGPT responds. It does not open a separate mode, reset account settings, or change whether a parent or guardian can view conversations.
What Reduce sensitive content does
When Reduce sensitive content is on, ChatGPT may respond more cautiously to topics such as:
Graphic violence or gore
Viral challenges that could encourage risky or harmful behavior
Sexual, romantic, or violent roleplay
Content that promotes extreme beauty standards, unhealthy dieting, or body shaming
Other sensitive or age-inappropriate content
No system is perfect. Reduce sensitive content helps lower the chance that ChatGPT gives certain sensitive responses, but it does not guarantee that every response will be appropriate in every situation.
For teen accounts
For teen accounts, Reduce sensitive content is on by default while the account is in ChatGPT's teen experience.
Teen account holders cannot turn this setting off themselves while teen protections apply.
If the teen account is linked to a parent or guardian through parental controls, the parent or guardian may be able to manage Reduce sensitive content for the teen account. Other teen protections, product limits, safety systems, or age-based restrictions may still apply.
If ChatGPT predicts that an account may belong to someone under 18, ChatGPT may apply the teen experience even if the account holder previously entered a date of birth. If the account holder is 18 or older, they can use age verification to ask ChatGPT to remove the teen experience. For more information, see Age prediction in ChatGPT.
For parents and guardians
If your account is linked to your teen's account through parental controls, Reduce sensitive content is on by default for your teen.
You may be able to turn Reduce sensitive content off for your teen from Settings > Parental controls. Turning it off removes this specific extra content safeguard. It does not make the teen account the same as an adult account across ChatGPT.
Other teen protections, product limits, safety systems, or age-based restrictions may still apply. Parental controls also do not give you access to your teen's conversations.
For more information about what parents and guardians can manage, see Parental controls in ChatGPT.
When an account leaves the teen experience
When an account that was using ChatGPT's teen experience is identified as 18 or older, it moves out of the teen experience.
When this happens:
Reduce sensitive content is turned off automatically.
The account holder gets access to ChatGPT features and settings available to adults.
The account holder gets full control over ChatGPT settings.
If parental controls were linked, the parental-controls connection ends.
Other account settings are not reset automatically.
After the change, the account holder can turn Reduce sensitive content back on if they want additional safeguards around sensitive content.
For more information about what changes when an account leaves the teen experience, see What happens when a teen account turns 18 in ChatGPT.
Turn Reduce sensitive content on or off
If Reduce sensitive content is available for your account and is not managed by teen protections, parental controls, or workspace settings, you can manage it from ChatGPT settings.
To change the setting:
Open Settings.
Select Safety.
Turn Reduce sensitive content on or off.
Changes may not take effect right away. In some cases, updated settings apply to new conversations started after the change, while existing conversations keep their previous behavior.
Workspace and education settings
Some ChatGPT workspaces, including education workspaces, may use workspace-level settings to apply content safeguards.
When a workspace setting applies, members may not be able to change Reduce sensitive content from their personal settings. If you use ChatGPT through a workspace and cannot change this setting, contact your workspace administrator.
Reporting a response that seems unsafe
If ChatGPT gives a response that seems unsafe or inappropriate for a teen, you can report it directly from the conversation.
To report a response:
Select the thumbs-down icon on the response.
Include the prompt, the response, and why it seemed unsafe or inappropriate.
Contact Support for account-setting, parental-control, or age-verification issues.
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