{"id":20109,"date":"2025-09-17T08:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/chatgpt-developing-age-verification-system-to-identify-under-18-users-after-teen-death\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T08:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:37:23","slug":"chatgpt-developing-age-verification-system-to-identify-under-18-users-after-teen-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/chatgpt-developing-age-verification-system-to-identify-under-18-users-after-teen-death\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT developing age verification system to identify under-18 users after teen death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman said if there is doubt the system will default to the under-18 experience putting \u2018safety ahead of privacy and freedom for teens\u2019<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI will restrict how ChatGPT responds to a user it suspects is under 18, unless that user passes the company\u2019s age estimation technology or provides ID, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/27\/chatgpt-scrutiny-family-teen-killed-himself-sue-open-ai\">legal action from the family of a 16-year-old<\/a> who killed himself in April after months of conversations with the chatbot.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI was prioritising \u201csafety ahead of privacy and freedom for teens\u201d, chief executive Sam Altman said in <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/teen-safety-freedom-and-privacy\/\">a blog post<\/a> on Tuesday, stating \u201cminors need significant protection.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/17\/chatgpt-developing-age-verification-system-to-identify-under-18-users-after-teen-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9c1e17dcfc7e55b156faf79404b72ccefa5c6890\/470_0_4695_3756\/master\/4695.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6ff41e733648084546a95ef81c4ba133\" title=\"ChatGPT developing age verification system to identify under-18 users after teen death\" \/>Sam Altman said if there is doubt the system will default to the under-18 experience putting \u2018safety ahead of privacy and freedom for teens\u2019<br \/>\nOpenAI will restrict how ChatGPT responds to a user it suspects is under 18, unless that user passes the company\u2019s age estimation technology or provides ID, following legal action from the family of a 16-year-old who killed himself in April after months of conversations with the chatbot.<br \/>\nOpenAI was prioritising \u201csafety ahead of privacy and freedom for teens\u201d, chief executive Sam Altman said in a blog post on Tuesday, stating \u201cminors need significant protection. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman said if there is doubt the system will default to the under-18 experience putting \u2018safety ahead of privacy and freedom for teens\u2019 OpenAI will restrict how ChatGPT responds to a user it suspects is under 18, unless that user passes the company\u2019s age estimation technology or provides ID, following legal action from the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/chatgpt-developing-age-verification-system-to-identify-under-18-users-after-teen-death\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ChatGPT developing age verification system to identify under-18 users after teen death<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}