It’s worse than that.

They want to build “the scream room” from Frank Herbert’s _The Jesus Incident_.

There is immense power to wield over someone when you know what they did in the scream room.

Its for both; the loosened guardrails around sex and the advertising roll-out are both explicitly for logged-in adults, and the age prediction is how they determine the logged-in user is an “adult”.

Exactly. Advertising will drive away users unless they are slowly trained into it, which will take time, time that Open AI doesn't have.

Meanwhile, the adult market is huge and sureshot revenue from a user base that is more likely to not mind the ads.

Do you expect the data collected for age verification will be completely separate from the advertising apparatus? I would expect the incentives would align for this to enhance their advertising options.

Given that they have terrible data isolation, I would suspect that the biometrics will be used to identify people when they eventually release the alexa/google glasses system they are trying to work on.

That kind of context is super useful for making stored data relevant, and also selling shit to you.

Agreed, see https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-allow-mature-content...