Meta is globally expanding AI age detection to automatically enforce safety protections for millions of teenagers who have not accurately disclosed their age on Instagram.
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Meta is globally expanding the age estimation technology it uses to find teenagers on Instagram who haven't correctly disclosed their age. The rollout will automatically place "millions more teens on Instagram into Teen Account protections," according to Meta's announcement, after launching the AI-powered age assurance updates in the US, EU, and Brazil last year. The age detection tools proactively look for signals that likely determine whether Instagram users are under 18 years old, such as the other profiles and types of content they interact with, birthday messages they receive, and "general themes and visual cues" from uploaded photos a … Read the full story at The Verge.
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