Instagram tries using AI to determine if teenagers are pretending to be adults

Belfast Telegraph - 21/04
Instagram is beginning to test the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to determine whether children are lying about their ages on the app, parent company Meta Platforms said on Monday.

Meta has been using AI to determine people’s ages for some time, the company said, but the photo and video-sharing app will now “proactively” look for accounts it suspects belong to teenagers even if they entered an inaccurate date of birth when they signed up.

If it is determined that a user is misrepresenting their age, the account will automatically become a teen account, which has more restrictions than an adult account.

Teen accounts are private by default. Private messages are restricted so teenagers can only receive them from people they follow or are already connected to.

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