Meta uses its AI detection technology to displace more young users in teenage accounts
Meta He says Does more to make sure that the most of his younger users use as possible that he entered for Instagram, Facebook and Messenger. Starting today, he tests artificial intelligence technology in the United States to find out if a person is a teenager – even if he has lied to his birthday to look adult – and then move them to a teenager.
The company says it has taken steps to make sure that the age finding technology is accurate, but in case it is a mistake, users, that AI suspects is a teenager, have the ability to change their settings and stick to an adult account. While META has been using AI to detect age for some time, it says that using technology is a “big change in this way.”
Met debuts teenage accounts on Instagram last fall and recently S Teenage accounts have more rigorous privacy settings and parental controls. These accounts, for example, are automatically set to private and prevent teenagers from messaging for unfamiliar messages.
The company says it has recorded over 54 million teens in such accounts and that 97 percent of users between the ages of 13 and 15 have chosen to activate them (under 16, they need permission from parents or guardians to give up teenage accounts). The company adds that over 90 percent of the parents he has interviewed agree that teenage accounts have helped their children safe on Instagram.
Starting today, Meta says it will send parents to Instagram Resource Notice that they can use to talk to their teens why it’s important to have the right age in their profiles so that they can be enrolled in teenage accounts. Meta says it works in other ways to ensure that users have an age -appropriate experience, such as To request the app stores to seek parental permission when under 16 years of age wants to download an application.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/Meta-is-sing-its-ai-age-detection-tech- to-huffle-sers-into-accounts-14201418.
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