So how is OpenAI going to know that a user is under 18?

[evacide@hachyderm.io]

So how is OpenAI going to know that a user is under 18?

"We’re building an age-prediction system to estimate age based on how people use ChatGPT."

https://openai.com/index/teen-safety-freedom-and-privacy/

[stevebellovin@infosec.exchange]

@evacide I have a two word answer to anyone promising to do that: "error bars". While I'm sure that they can build a system that can reliably distinguish an infant from a senior citizen, I doubt very much that they can reliably distinguish a 17-year-old from a 19-year-old.

[agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social]

@SteveBellovin @evacide I majored in physics. The error bars were the most important part of the data analysis. It was often seen that undergrads would take their data, run a linear regression, then plot the data plus regression line. But the error bars were so large that you could draw that straight line in (nearly) any direction.