ChatGPT is using age prediction to restrict what minors see

Age prediction is rolling retired astir globally, with users successful the EU getting it ‘in the coming weeks.’

OpenAI has added age prediction features to ChatGPT, meant to place and bolster protections for underage users. These property detection plans were announced successful December alongside updated guidelines for interacting with teens, and travel a emergence successful akin age-gating efforts from online platforms, including Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Roblox.

ChatGPT's property prediction exemplary works by examining behavioral and account-level signals, including a user's stated age, however aged the relationship is, erstwhile the idiosyncratic is active, and usage patterns implicit time. Additional protections volition past beryllium applied to persons that ChatGPT estimates are nether the property of 18, r …

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