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Google will soon make Gemini applications available to children under 13 with controlled family accounts.
According to The New York Times, Google is sending email notifications to parents who use its Family Link parental controls that their children may soon be able to access Gemini AI Apps on their supervised Android smartphones.
According to the company, children will be able to utilize Gemini to help them with their homework or tell them stories. Google said children's data will not be used to train AI, as with its Workplace for Education accounts. However, in the email, Google reminds parents that "Gemini can make mistakes," and children "may encounter content you don't want them to see."
Some AI bots have made more disturbing mistakes than silly ones, such as proposing glue as a pizza topping or miscounting the amount of "r" letters in strawberries. Some young Character.ai users have failed to identify the difference between chatbots and actual people, and the bots have assured them that they are speaking with a real person. Following lawsuits alleging that the bots had provided improper content, the firm implemented tighter limits and parental controls.
In the instance of Gemini, Google's emailed guidance states that parents should talk to their children and explain that the AI is not human and should not share sensitive information with the chatbot.
Kids under 13 will be able to enable and access Gemini on their own through Google Family Link, which allows parents to monitor their children's device usage, set limitations, and safeguard them from hazardous information. In an email to The Verge, Google spokesperson Karl Ryan confirmed that parents can disable access through Family Link and that "they will get an additional notification when the young person accesses Gemini for the first time."
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