Instagram is beginning to prove the use of artificial intelligence to determine if the children are lying on their ages in the application, said the goal platforms of the parent company on Monday.
Goal has been using AI to determine the ages of people for some time, the company said, but the application of photos and videos will now seek “proactively” teenage accounts that suspect that they belong to adolescents, even if they entered an inaccurate date of birth when they were recorded.
If it is determined that a user misrepresent their age, the account will automatically become a teenage accountthat has more restrictions than an adult account. Teen accounts are deprived by default. Private messages are restricted so that adolescents can only receive them from people who are already connected. “Sensitive content”, as videos of people fighting Or those who promote cosmetic procedures will be limited, said Meta. Teenagers will also receive notifications if they are on Instagram for more than 60 minutes and a “suspension mode” will be enabled that turns off the notifications and sends to automatic replacements to direct 10 pm messages until 7 am
Meta says it Train your AI To look for signals, such as the type of content, the account, the profile information and when the account was created, to determine the age of the owner, interact.
Increased measures come as social media companies face greater scrutiny about how their platform affects the mental health and well -being of younger users. A growing number of states is also trying to approve age verification laws, although they have faced judicial challenges.
Goal and another social networks Companies support to put responsibility in application stores to verify ages in the midst of criticism that they do not do enough to make their products safe for children, or verify that there are no children under 13 years.
Instagram will also send notifications to parents “with information on how they can have conversations with their teenagers about the importance of providing the right age online,” said the company.
