{"id":256112,"date":"2026-01-21T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256112\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:39:08","slug":"chatgpt-is-using-age-prediction-to-restrict-what-minors-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256112\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT is using age prediction to restrict what minors see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">ChatGPT\u2019s age prediction model works by examining behavioral and account-level signals, including a user\u2019s stated age, how old the account is, when the user is active, and usage patterns over time. Additional protections will then be applied to persons that ChatGPT estimates are under the age of 18, restricting exposure to sensitive content, such as:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Adult users who are incorrectly placed in the under-18 experience can restore their unrestricted access by verifying their age with a selfie. Age prediction is rolling out globally, except in the EU, where OpenAI says it will \u201croll out in the coming weeks to account for regional requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">These age prediction features and additional safeguards come after ChatGPT was the focus of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/831207\/openai-chatgpt-lawsuit-parental-controls-tos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">teen suicide lawsuit<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/779053\/sam-altman-says-chatgpt-will-stop-talking-about-suicide-with-teens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Senate panel<\/a> discussing chatbots\u2019 potential harm to minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ChatGPT\u2019s age prediction model works by examining behavioral and account-level signals, including a user\u2019s stated age, how old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,43,1682,216,80],"class_list":["post-256112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-openai","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}