Inflection AI's products are not intended for children under 13, and the company says it will delete data if it discovers it has collected information from a child under 13 — but there is no active age verification described.
Children under 13 are prohibited from using Inflection AI products, but the policy relies on reactive deletion rather than proactive age verification — meaning children's sensitive emotional disclosures to the AI could be collected and used before the company becomes aware of the user's age.
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Compare across platforms →The absence of active age verification for a product explicitly designed to be emotionally engaging and relationship-building creates significant COPPA compliance risk and child safety concerns, particularly given the intimate nature of AI companion interactions.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision directly implicates COPPA, 15 U.S.C. §§6501-6506, and the FTC's COPPA Rule, 16 C.F.R. Part 312, which requires verifiable parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13. The 'knowingly' qualifier in COPPA extends to situations where the operator had actual knowledge or should have had knowledge based on contextual indicators. GDPR Art. 8 sets the age of digital consent at 16 (or 13-16 at member state discretion), with the UK GDPR/Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code) requiring heightened protections for any service likely to be accessed by minors. The EU AI Act's provisions on prohibited AI practices include AI systems that exploit vulnerable groups including children.
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