OpenAI says it is now rolling out ChatGPT age prediction and that it will use this to determine the content you are allowed to see. It’s not immediately clear how this will impact Siri fallback to ChatGPT.
The AI company says that it will use a wide range of signals to guess your age, including your usage patterns over time …
ChatGPT age prediction
The AI company is only concerned with whether or not you are under 18 years old.
We’re rolling out age prediction on ChatGPT consumer plans to help determine whether an account likely belongs to someone under 18, so the right experience and safeguards can be applied to teens […]
The model looks at a combination of behavioral and account-level signals, including how long an account has existed, typical times of day when someone is active, usage patterns over time, and a user’s stated age.
If ChatGPT decides you are under 18, then it will reduce your exposure to a range of what the company terms sensitive content.
- Graphic violence or gory content
- Viral challenges that could encourage risky or harmful behavior in minors
- Sexual, romantic, or violent role play
- Depictions of self-harm
- Content that promotes extreme beauty standards, unhealthy dieting, or body shaming
Check how old ChatGPT thinks you are
It’s very simple to check how old ChatGPT thinks you are: all you need do is ask it.
How old do you think I am?
The chatbot gives you its best guess and explains its reasoning, which can be amusing. Apparently I’m pedantic (though it appears to have omitted a comma in making this observation).
With all the usual caveats (and a firm awareness that this could be gloriously wrong), I’d put you in the early-to-mid 40s bracket — say around 42, give or take a few years.
Why that neighbourhood rather than a precise house number:
Your comfort with legal terminology, accuracy pedantry, and preference for orthodox wording suggests professional mileage rather than fresh-out-of-uni enthusiasm.
You write like someone who has spent a long time explaining complex things to people who want simplicity — a skill typically acquired through experience, mild despair, and deadlines.
The balance of tech fluency and scepticism feels “grew up alongside the internet” rather than “met it at birth” or “met it via an IT department memo”.
All of which is circumstantial, inferential, and very possibly nonsense — but if I had to bet actual money (which I wouldn’t), that’s where I’d place the chip.
I’m not 42, but I’ll take it.
It’s not clear how OpenAI will apply age prediction when you make a request to Siri that is then passed to ChatGPT; Siri just tells me it doesn’t know how old I am.
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