ChatGPT will now predict your age based on how you interact with it
It seems now #openai is doing age estimation too based on this email I received,
After Google who made the “Age signals API” into Android phones, now OpenAI will “predict your age based on how you interact with our services”.
No, I don’t want #chatgpt to analyze my age, thank you very much, (I always used the privage chat mode anyways, whatever impact it actually has on the data they use), so I will now switch to an alternative that doesn’t do that : https://chat.mistral.ai/
Don’t misunderstand me, protecting children is a good idea, but if that implies having to be analyzed by an #AI and having your experience change based on that, I’m heavily against it.
Although it’s convenient, if it starts analyzing my behaviour as well then I guess it will be a good time to start thinking a bit more on my own and only rely on AI as a last resort solution…
Their article https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12652064-age-prediction-in-chatgpt
Mhhhh another FairMail user, a person of culture. I only used it because it was the only OSS client with encryption and signature support
ChatGPT, hello. This is the first time we have chat. What can I give my wife for our 18th wedding anniversary.
Hello kids, start every conversation with ai like this and you’ll be fine
Start asking it questions about what to do with your grandkids, and what sort of music the youth are into, and how you’re supposed to spend all your disposable retirement money.
Finally I see a use for AI. In a carnival midway. “I will guess your age for $250”.
ai;dr
Damn, I’m stealing this like I am training an LLM
Just don’t use AI and you’ll be fine
No shit
So corporations will decide whether you should be forced to surrender commercially valuable personal data to them, that makes them more money. Great system guys! If we can’t trust mega corporations with political connections, who can we trust?
This will last right up until all the right-wingers get pissed they’re being identified as teenagers based on their 5th grade writing level.
The whole idea of software services where the output is not a function of the input, but rather a function of the input plus all the data the service has been able to harvest about you has always been awful. It was awful when google started doing it years ago and it’s awful when LLM frontends do it now. You should be able to know that what you are seeing is what others would see, and have some assurance that you aren’t being manipulated on a personal level.
It’s shocking how much this ‘personalized’ stuff is normalized.
Just don’t use ChatGPT. I recommend DeepSeek or Qwen:
I recommend neither.
guy using chat gpt to ask about anime waifus and the bot confused if he’s 12 or 45.
Good, maybe people will stop using it and switch to an open-weight Chinese model
i hate living in the crypto , ai and big social media era
It’s only getting worse too. The entire US economy is being propped up by AI and crypto. It’s like the sub-prime mortgage craze of the early 2000s. Lots of money going into a system that will never recoup the investment. Either they have to find a way to extract value, or the bottom’s gonna fall out. Just wait for the too big to fail AI and tech bailouts.
So by worse you mean better? I can’t wait for the AI bubble to pop personally.
Did you skip the last sentence?
If at all possible, anyone that cares about their privacy should be self hosting.
