Ammon News - OpenAI on Tuesday said it is rolling out an age prediction model to its ChatGPT consumer plans to help the artificial intelligence company identify accounts that belong to users under 18 years old.

The model relies on a combination of account-level signals and behavioral signals, OpenAI said. Some of those signals include usage patterns over time, how long an account has existed, the typical times of day a user is active and the user’s stated age.

OpenAI has rolled out several new safety features in recent months as it faces mounting scrutiny over how it protects users, particularly minors.

The AI startup and other tech companies are facing a probe from the FTC over how their AI chatbots potentially negatively affect children and teenagers, and OpenAI is named in several wrongful death lawsuits, including one that centers around a teenage boy’s death by suicide.

Once OpenAI’s age prediction model suggests that a user is under 18, OpenAI said, ChatGPT will automatically apply protections designed to reduce exposure to “sensitive content,” like depictions of self-harm.

If users are incorrectly identified as being under 18, they will be able to use the identity-verification service Persona to restore their full access.

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