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Google will soon start letting kids under 13 use its Gemini chatbot


Google will soon begin allowing kids under 13 who have parent-managed Google accounts to use its Gemini chatbot, per The New York Times.

A Google spokesperson told the publication that Gemini has specific guardrails for younger users, and that the company won’t use that data to train its AI. That’s despite the fact that chatbots today are imperfect at best — and potentially harmful at worst. The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization late last year pushed for governments to regulate the use of generative AI in education, including implementing age limits for users and guardrails on data protection and user privacy.

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