US EditionInstagram tries using AI to determine if teens are pretending to be adults
- Instagram is testing artificial intelligence to identify if users are misrepresenting their ages, according to Meta Platforms.
- If a user is found to be underage, their account will automatically become a teen account with stricter privacy settings.
- Teen accounts will be private by default and have restrictions on receiving private messages and viewing sensitive content, as stated by Meta.
- Meta's new measures respond to scrutiny over social media's impact on youth mental health and aim to support age verification efforts.
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Meta Is Testing AI That Can Catch Teenagers Trying to Get Around Age Rules on Instagram
Meta is using AI to tell if an Instagram account belongs to a teen user. Meta will now automatically recategorize those accounts as Teen Accounts with safeguards in place.
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DnoticiasInstagram tests use of AI to prevent teenagers from lying at their age
Now Meta says it trains its AI to look for signs, such as the type of content the account interacts with, profile information, and when the account was created, to determine the owner's age.
Instagram turning to AI to spot teens pretending to be adults
Instagram will test artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help find the accounts of teenagers posing as adults, parent company Meta announced Monday. The technology, which will begin testing Monday, will “proactively” search for accounts it suspects could belong to teenagers, even if they enter a false birth date when creating the account. “We’ve been using…
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