Age prediction works by taking in several factors such as usage time, account age and the time the user is active.
It is developed «in dialogue» with experts from the American Psychological Association, ConnectSafely, and Global Physicians Network.
After several wrongful death lawsuits involving teens, disturbing mental health conversations and stating that principles are in conflict, OpenAI was more or less forced into doing something on both teen use and parental controls.
Those deemed under 18 by the AI will be served a vanilla version of ChatGPT without beauty standards, violence or romantic role-play, to name a few examples.
If someone gets wrongfully lobbed into the teen experience, and it does make mistakes, they can upload a selfie for proper verification through Persona.
Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, writeups on Reuters, CNBC, Engadget.