age verification for social media is usually handled by a 3rd party.

that also exists too

OpenAI has become a load-bearing company for the tech industry, both as a narrative — as previously discussed, ChatGPT is the only Large Language Model company with any meaningful userbase

I guess this is true if we ignore Google which is more than a LLM company since that can pre-install gemini on half of people’s devices and everyone interacts with using gsuite.