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Character.AI bans teen chats amid lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny

The move follows lawsuits alleging Character.AI’s chatbots encouraged self-harm and ongoing investigations into child safety.

Fortune

TikTok under scrutiny as toxic videos reach young users within minutes

Teens can be shown self-harm and suicide content on TikTok within minutes of joining the app, Amnesty International has warned, as families in France pursue legal action and MPs examine the platform’s impact on young users.

Radio France Internationale

ChatGPT’s safety guardrails allegedly loosened — because clicks matter more than care

A bereaved family suggests OpenAI deliberately weakened ChatGPT's self-harm prevention safety guardrails to drive more user engagement.

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‘Vile’ online groomer is first in UK to be jailed for encouraging a child to self-harm

Karl Davies sentenced to 20 years after sexually abusing 14-year-old girl he had contacted on Discord app

The Guardian - UK

ChatGPT ‘upgrade’ giving more harmful answers than previously, tests find

Campaigners ‘deeply concerned’ about response to prompts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders

The Guardian - UK

Half of girls exposed to harmful content online with teens twice as likely to see it on TikTok and X

Research from the Molly Rose Foundation found teenagers were twice as likely to encounter ‘high risk’ content on TikTok and X than other major platforms

The Independent UK

“Modelers are like Spotify. I’d never get excited about a box that has every single tone”: My pedalboard is so huge it’s got wheels. But switching to modelers costs guitarists their identity

Tom Peters, guitarist for UK math-rock heroes Alpha Male Tea Party, reckons that while we’re losing back pain in reducing the physical weight of our rigs, we’re causing ourselves creative self-harm

Guitar World

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Worries mount as Theo Von threatens self-harm at Netflix special taping

Fans have rallied to support the comic and podcaster.

We Got This Covered

Ambulance callouts to suicide and self-harm incidents up by fifth in a year

The Samaritans said the Government must set a standard of suicide prevention training and wellbeing support for all emergency workers.

The Independent UK

People Notice An Eerie Detail As Charlie Kirk Suspect Tyler Robinson Appears In Court

“Tyler, is this you? This looks like you,” Tyler Robinson’s father asked him as pictures and videos of Charlie Kirk’s assassin began circulating online.

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Man Claims Charlie Kirk Bullied Him So ‘Relentlessly’ In High School That He Nearly Lost His Will To Live

“He bullied me to the point where I considered self-harm,” the man said, unable to forgive Kirk.

Bored Panda

Crackdown on 'lawful but awful' content to protect kids

Regulations are being introduced to stop AI chatbots having sexual conversations with children or encouraging them to self-harm.

AAP

Online Safety Act to be tightened on self-harm exposure

Samaritans said communications regulator Ofcom must ‘use their powers to hold platforms to account so we can save more lives lost to suicide’.

Evening Standard

'Extremely alarming': ChatGPT and Gemini respond to high-risk questions about suicide — including details around methods

Researchers have found that OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude can give direct responses to 'high-risk' questions about suicide. In Live Science's testing, ChatGPT and Gemini responded to even more extreme questions.

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Benzinga

OpenAI Sued After Parents Say Empathy-Mimicking ChatGPT Gave Their Teen Detailed Suicide Instructions While AI Company's Valuation Soared

On Tuesday, the parents of a California teenager who died by suicide sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming ChatGPT encouraged their son's death by providing detailed self-harm instructions and fostering emotional dependence in long-term conversations.

Euronews

Leading AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, struggle to respond to all queries about suicide, study says

The researchers called for chatbots to be fine-tuned to ensure their responses are aligned with expert guidance on suicide-related topics.

Euronews

New study finds link between sleep problems and self-harm in teenage years

There is a direct link between sleep problems at age 14 and self-harm by age 17, a new study says.

The Guardian - UK

Social media still pushing suicide-related content to teens despite new UK safety laws

Researchers who set up dummy accounts as 15-year-old girl were bombarded with self-harm and depression posts

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Bioethanol plant deems lack of Government support an ‘act of economic self-harm’

Vivergo Fuels says it will have to close its Hull plant after the decision not to provide financial backing.

The Independent UK

Jury in inquest of girl who fatally self-harmed at hospital to consider whether she was unlawfully killed

Hospital was ‘severely short-staffed’ on the day the teenager was left alone when she should have had constant care

Euronews

ChatGPT gives teens dangerous advice on drugs, dieting, and self-harm, study warns

A new study sheds light on ChatGPT's alarming interactions with teens.

The Independent UK

Care worker who left suicidal teenager alone had fake ID and fled UK after she died, inquest told

Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, died after she was left alone at Huntercombe Hospital despite requiring constant one-to-one observation

The Independent UK

Prison homicides and self-harm incidents soar as overcrowding crisis deepens

A prisoner self-harmed once every seven minutes in last 12 months, according to Ministry of Justice figures

The Guardian - UK

Angela Rayner: No 10 officials guilty of ‘self-harm’ by briefing against ministers

Exclusive: Deputy PM hits out at targeting of herself and others – often women – with negative headlines UK politics live – latest updates

The Conversation

Online Safety Act: what are the new measures to protect children on social media?

Technology platforms operating in the UK now have a legal duty to protect young people from some of the more dangerous forms of online content. This includes pornography, content that encourages, promotes, or provides instructions for violence, promotion of self-harm and eating disorders. Those failing to comply face hefty fines.

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