Meta Announces New Age-Verification Safeguards, but the Kids Aren’t Having It
Meta said the system will scan photos, videos and profile signals to identify underage accounts and deactivate them until users verify their age.
- On Tuesday, Meta announced it will use AI to analyze visual clues, such as bone structure, to identify and remove users under 13 from Facebook and Instagram.
- A New Mexico jury recently ordered Meta to pay $375 million for misleading consumers about platform safety and child risk. The company then threatened to shut down services in the state.
- Rather than utilizing facial recognition technology, Meta's AI analyzes visual cues such as height and text context to estimate age without identifying specific individuals. The system scans posts, comments, bios, and captions.
- Meta also announced expansion of its "Teen Accounts" on Instagram to 27 countries, including Brazil, with enhanced safeguards restricting DMs to approved contacts. These accounts set privacy to private by default.
- Following these initial deployments, the company plans to expand age-verification technology to Facebook and the U.K. and EU in June, with Instagram Live and Facebook Groups integration coming later.
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PublicoMeta is implementing a new way of detecting users under the age of 13 on their social networks Instagram and Facebook, analyzing bone structure through artificial intelligence (AI). This system determines the age of the user by analyzing the profile context, such as birthday celebrations or mentions to school newsletters, as well as incorporating visual analysis into photos and videos to identify clues that could go unnoticed based only on the t…
Meta is expanding the use of artificial intelligence to better control the age of children and adolescents on its platforms in the future. On the one hand, the new measures aim to remove children under the age of 13 from Instagram and Co., on the other hand, young people who are considered adults will be forced into stricter security settings. The AI-supported software no longer only analyses text-based profile information, but also captures the…
The US company Meta is taking drastic measures and will use artificial intelligence in the future to control the age of its users more strictly.
Meta is using AI facial analysis to identify underage users on Facebook and Instagram
In a blog post, the Menlo Park-based tech giant said it is developing an advanced AI system to scan photos and videos on Facebook and Instagram, analyzing users' bone structure, height, and other visual cues to estimate their age, while insisting that it is "not facial recognition." The AI will...Read Entire Article
Meta’s AI scans photos for bone structure to catch underage users on Instagram and Facebook
Meta is using AI visual analysis to scan photos and videos for physical indicators like height and bone structure to detect and remove users under 13 from Instagram and Facebook.
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