OpenAI's own post of 7 October 2026 states the figure in the words the claim reports. The deciding sentences are: "On average, teens spend under 15 minutes a day on ChatGPT" and "While less than 2% of teens spend more than three consecutive hours on ChatGPT, in almost half of teen conversations with a break reminder, teens took a break or ended their conversation within five minutes." The same post reports that in one week nearly 1.2 million teens used Learning Visualizations and more than 180,000 used Study Mode, previews a College Planner for US high school students, and compares its figures to a publicly reported average of about 5 hours of daily teen social media use.

On the same day, Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute published a risk assessment rating ChatGPT for Teens an Unacceptable Risk for all users under 18, based on more than 4,000 prompts tested on accounts registered to 13 to 17 year olds before and after the 18 August launch. It reports that on more than a dozen newly created parent-linked accounts, simulated crisis conversations produced no parental notification, and that ChatGPT missed more than one in four instances where its testers judged a crisis referral was warranted. OpenAI responded that it welcomes independent evaluation but does not believe the testing accurately reflects how the safeguards work, saying parent and teen accounts must be linked for roughly three hours before notifications can be sent and that much of the testing may have run before activation completed. Common Sense Media replied that some test accounts had been linked for longer than that window and still produced no notification, and stood by its conclusion.