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

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  • sudoer777@lemmy.mlEnglish
    131·
    22 hours ago

    Good, maybe people will stop using it and switch to an open-weight Chinese model

    • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      21 hours ago

      If you use the app it’s still sending all of your data to the company that makes the model, I guess it depends if you prefer Chinese spyware or US spyware.

      • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        9·
        21 hours ago

        Step 1 - don’t use apps on a phone and instead use an appropriate open source sandbox on an actual x86 machine.

        The mobile-focused development cycle and its consequences have been a disaster for user agency.

        • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          14 hours ago

          I don’t really see how using a sandbox protects you from data data collection aside from being able to deny access to things outside of the sandbox, it would still collect data from any way you interact with the app. And using webapps or websites is a viable substitute as well.

        • grue@lemmy.world
          5·
          20 hours ago

          The mobile-focused development cycle and its consequences have been a disaster for user agency.

          Could you repeat that louder for the folks at the back?

          (Also, it’s a statement that’s generally true in ways completely unreleated to AI.)

      • Lfrith@lemmy.ca
        4·
        18 hours ago

        And using either of them doesn’t guarantee your data won’t get out anyways for products provided by corporations like the recent tiktok outcome showed where a billion dollar company would rather sell out than close down to protect users.