Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is pictured connected Sept. 25, 2025, successful Berlin.
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OpenAI connected Tuesday said it is rolling retired an property prediction exemplary to its ChatGPT user plans to assistance the artificial intelligence institution place accounts that beryllium to users nether 18 years old.
The exemplary relies connected a operation of account-level signals and behavioral signals, OpenAI said. Some of those signals see usage patterns implicit time, however agelong an relationship has existed, the emblematic times of time a idiosyncratic is progressive and the user's stated age.
OpenAI has rolled retired respective caller information features successful caller months arsenic it faces mounting scrutiny implicit however it protects users, peculiarly minors.
The AI startup and different tech companies are facing a probe from the FTC implicit however their AI chatbots perchance negatively impact children and teenagers, and OpenAI is named successful respective wrongful decease lawsuits, including 1 that centers astir a teenage boy's decease by suicide.
Once OpenAI's property prediction exemplary suggests that a idiosyncratic is nether 18, OpenAI said, ChatGPT volition automatically use protections designed to trim vulnerability to "sensitive content," similar depictions of self-harm.
If users are incorrectly identified arsenic being nether 18, they volition beryllium capable to usage the identity-verification work Persona to reconstruct their afloat access.
Persona is utilized by other tech companies, including Roblox, which has besides faced pressure from lawmakers to amended support children connected its platform.
In August, OpenAI said it would merchandise parental controls to assistance them recognize and signifier however their teens are utilizing ChatGPT. The pursuing month, OpenAI rolled retired its parental controls and said it was moving to physique an property prediction system.
The institution besides convened a assembly of 8 experts successful October who volition supply penetration into how AI could impact users' intelligence health, emotions and motivation.
OpenAI said Tuesday that it volition proceed to amended the accuracy of its property prediction exemplary implicit time.
The exemplary volition rotation retired successful the European Union successful the coming weeks "to relationship for determination requirements."
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