{"id":243742,"date":"2026-01-21T04:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243742\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T04:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:18:11","slug":"openai-is-launching-age-prediction-for-chatgpt-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243742\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI is launching age prediction for ChatGPT accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI is the latest company to hop on the bandwagon of gating access by users’ age. The AI business is beginning a global rollout of an age prediction tool to determine whether or not a user is a minor. \u201cThe model looks at a combination of behavioral and account-level signals, including how long an account has existed, typical times of day when someone is active, usage patterns over time,and a user\u2019s stated age,\u201d the company\u2019s announcement<\/a> states. If an individual is incorrectly characterized by ChatGPT as underage, they will need to submit a selfie to correct the mistake through the Persona age verification platform.<\/p>\n

Most AI companies have been willing to push new features first and then attempt to layer on a patchwork of protections and safety guards on top of them after they cause harm. OpenAI was implicated in a wrongful death suit<\/a> for a teen who allegedly used ChatGPT to plan his suicide, and only in the following months began pondering automatic restrictions<\/a> on content for underage users and launching a mental health advisory council<\/a>. In this instance, OpenAI is attempting to prepare for the launch of an “adult mode<\/a>” that will allow users to create and consume content that would be dubbed NSFW. Considering how well a similar change<\/a> has been going over at Roblox, another platform with a shaky history around protecting minors, it seems probable that underage users will find ways to circumvent the existing tools if they want to use ChatGPT as adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI is the latest company to hop on the bandwagon of gating access by users’ age. The AI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,142820,111,139,69,142819,145],"class_list":["post-243742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-global-rollout","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prediction-tool","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}