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

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  • astutemural@midwest.socialEnglish
    25·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • gecko@lemmy.ml
    251·
    3 months ago

    i hate living in the crypto , ai and big social media era

    • JonEFive@midwest.social
      11·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        So by worse you mean better? I can’t wait for the AI bubble to pop personally.

            • folaht@lemmy.ml
              1·
              3 months ago

              It gets worse until the bubble pops is the idea, which I personally don’t think it will for the US.

              • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
                2·
                3 months ago

                Do you mean the AI bubble won’t pop? Currently that seams very unlikely, AI is entirely propped up by investors and they aren’t generating any real profit from consumers. Literally the definition of an unsustainable market.

                • folaht@lemmy.ml
                  22·
                  3 months ago

                  No, what is meant is that “as long is the AI bubble it will get worse, then it gets better”.
                  And to that I say “It won’t get any better after the bubble pops”.

                  There’s simply no incentive in the US from the left side to change anything that I think needs to change and instead has it’s priorities on things that I don’t think will help the underlying issues at all.

  • sudoer777@lemmy.mlEnglish
    131·
    3 months ago

    Good, maybe people will stop using it and switch to an open-weight Chinese model

    • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      If you use the app it’s still sending all of your data to the company that makes the model, I guess it depends if you prefer Chinese spyware or US spyware.

      • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        8·
        3 months ago

        Step 1 - don’t use apps on a phone and instead use an appropriate open source sandbox on an actual x86 machine.

        The mobile-focused development cycle and its consequences have been a disaster for user agency.

        • grue@lemmy.world
          5·
          3 months ago

          The mobile-focused development cycle and its consequences have been a disaster for user agency.

          Could you repeat that louder for the folks at the back?

          (Also, it’s a statement that’s generally true in ways completely unreleated to AI.)

        • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          I don’t really see how using a sandbox protects you from data data collection aside from being able to deny access to things outside of the sandbox, it would still collect data from any way you interact with the app. And using webapps or websites is a viable substitute as well.

  • hector@lemmy.todayBanned from community
    6·
    3 months ago

    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?

  • DancingBear@midwest.social
    5·
    3 months ago

    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

  • Matt@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 months ago

    Try any model with LMStudio and with the DuckDuckgo search plugin to it. It works better than you might think.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    3 months ago

    At some point in the 2000s I chatted with the SmarterChild chatbot on MSN Messenger for a while. I was around 11 or 12 years old at the time.

    I remember it once answering “sorry, web search is only available to adult users”, to which I responded “how do you know I’m just a child?”. I don’t remember what came before or after that… it might have asked me my DOB at some point before that, but am until today not sure how it knew that. Point is, none of this is new… 😁

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    51·
    3 months ago

    Finally I see a use for AI. In a carnival midway. “I will guess your age for $250”.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 months ago

    So if I talk about hemorrhoids enough, it will think I’m old and let me into the pr0n sites! Cool!!!

  • catdog@lemmy.ml
    41·
    3 months ago

    Makes sense to me. Use the LLM itself to counter children from using it in ways they aren’t allowed to.