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
Makes sense to me. Use the LLM itself to counter children from using it in ways they aren’t allowed to.
Ha, I thought this was an email from FairEmail at first. That would have been wild. This coming from Scam Altman, not surprising 🤷♀️
I recommend duck.ai as an alternative way of accessing ChatGTP. Is not a perfect solution but it’s better than accessing it straight from the OpenAI website
@ageedizzle I plan on using https://chat.mistral.ai/ since it’s a completely different model that is open source and based in france so regulated by GDPR. If you still use ChatGPT but from somewhere else, it kinda defeats the purpose to switch away from it, in my opinion.
It’s better from a privacy perspective. But yeah, you’d still ultimately be using ChatGTP at the end of the day so another model might be preferable
“Le Chat” lol idk why this looked funny to me. Thanks for the link!
Extra funny when you learn what Chat GPT sounds like in French (chat, j’ai pété)
Of course it’s not weird that “chat” is chat in French, but it’s also cat which is silly
I recommend just searching for what you want and reading the results yourself.
I do too. But if someone really does want to use these tools then there are better and worse ways of doing it
True, that’s a good point
Yes but sometimes using AI like this is so much easier. I find it really useful in troubleshooting tech problems because you can tell it your specific setup and iterate on solutions until something works. So much easier than reading through 1,000 StackExchange threads which approximate your problem
Just make sure you practice safe searching, son. We love you.
For sure. And in that spirit -
Another option for people: pay $10 to get an OpenRouter account and use providers that 1) don’t train on your data 2) have ZDR (zero data retention)
You can use them directly there (a bit clunky) or via API with something like OpenWebUI.
https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui
Alternatively, if you have the hardware, self host. Qwen 3-4B 2507 Instruct matches / exceeds ChatGPT 4.1 nano and mini on almost all benchmarks… and the abliterated version is even better IMHO
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507
https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/Qwen3-4B-Hivemind-Instruct-NEO-MAX-Imatrix-GGUF
It should run acceptably on even 10 yr old hardware / no GPU.
Similarly, Proton has Lumo
That link appears to be broken on my end.
Looks like the hyperlink got messed up. Added the full url
the amount of problems i don’t have to deal with because i simply don’t use GenAI
Mhhhh another FairMail user, a person of culture. I only used it because it was the only OSS client with encryption and signature support
If at all possible, anyone that cares about their privacy should be self hosting.
I think if you really care about privacy, you should assume they do this, no matter what they say. By the way, great job on including the image transcript. :)
@treatcover Well, you can run Mistral locally but my laptop is not powerful enough haha
Also, yeah, a small copy paste goes a long way!
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… 😁
how do you know I’m just a child?"
“You just told me, kiddo!”
So if I talk about hemorrhoids enough, it will think I’m old and let me into the pr0n sites! Cool!!!
You would be surprised what health problems people under 18 can have.
Just don’t use ChatGPT. I recommend DeepSeek or Qwen:
I recommend neither.
Try any model with LMStudio and with the DuckDuckgo search plugin to it. It works better than you might think.
i hate living in the crypto , ai and big social media era
Makes it super easy to know what to avoid though
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.
So by worse you mean better? I can’t wait for the AI bubble to pop personally.
Did you skip the last sentence?
Sorry I don’t get what you mean by skip the last sentence.
It gets worse until the bubble pops is the idea, which I personally don’t think it will for the US,
as there’s currently zero attempts to change the system for the better, but that’s the idea.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.
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.
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
If you absolutely must use ChatGPT, you can do it with Duck.ai as a proxy to protect your personal info.
I have duckduckgo as my default engine. But how to set up this proxy to ChatGPT?
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