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  • OpenAI Launches Dedicated ChatGPT for Teens with Study Modes and Model Spec Guardrails

    OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT for Teens, a dedicated environment for users aged 13 through 17 that combines educational scaffolding tools with reinforced safety constraints and parental controls. The rollout automatically routes users into the teen environment if they register as 13 to 17 years old or if OpenAI's automated age-prediction classifier estimates they fall into that demographic. Children under the age of 13 remain prohibited from the platform under OpenAI's standard terms of service

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  • Scammers are enrolling fake students at US community colleges and using AI to collect financial aid

    Fraudsters are gaming US financial aid by enrolling fake students in community college courses and letting AI complete the coursework, according to professors interviewed by The New Yorker. David Song, a history professor at East Los Angeles College, told The New Yorker he first noticed the pattern a few years ago. Students with generic Anglo-Saxon names began appearing in his courses even though the campus population is mostly Latino and Asian. Their explanations did not add up, including clai

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