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Morning Edition · Thursday, August 20, 2026Published at 2:25 AM EDT · New York
ChatGPT Now Guesses Whether a User Is a Teenager and Changes Its Behavior Accordingly
Accounts judged to belong to 13-to-17-year-olds get content restrictions and feature limits by default, adults misclassified can verify through Persona, and OpenAI has published no accuracy rate.
OpenAI turned on ChatGPT for Teens, a default experience applied when its systems judge that an account belongs to someone between 13 and 17. It is not a separate app. The age-prediction model combines behavioral and account signals, includ…
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