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YouTube to Test AI Age Verification
YouTube's AI system estimates user age from viewing habits to restrict minors, sparking a petition with over 68,000 signatures and ongoing privacy concerns.
- YouTube began testing a new AI-based age-verification system for logged-in users in the U.S. on August 13, 2025.
- This implementation comes in response to growing political demands that followed a Supreme Court decision affirming a Texas statute designed to restrict minors’ access to online pornography in late June.
- The AI uses signals like account age and viewed content to flag users under 18, then applies restrictions such as disabling personalized ads and enabling wellbeing tools.
- Critics highlight privacy concerns, noting YouTube has not disclosed how age-verification data is collected, stored, or protected, while a petition decries risks of "mass surveillance and data control."
- The system’s potential errors require users to submit government IDs or credit cards to verify age, raising fears that backlash and privacy debates could affect broader adoption.
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The Times of Northwest Indiana
Dothan EagleYouTube to test AI age verification
YouTube on Wednesday will begin testing a new age-verification system in the U.S. that relies on artificial intelligence to differentiate between adults and minors, based on the kinds of videos that they have been watching.
YouTube to begin testing new AI-powered age verification system in US
YouTube is ready to start testing a new age-verification system in the U.S. using artificial intelligence to distinguish between adults and minors based on their viewing habits. The tests, scheduled to being Wednesday, initially affect a small portion of YouTube's…
By Clare Duffy, CNN YouTube will begin estimating users' ages using artificial intelligence starting Wednesday, as part of an initiative to prevent minors from accessing inappropriate content online. This move is part of a broader effort to make social media safer for young people, although some users are already expressing concerns about what this will mean for their privacy and experience on the platform. The technology is designed to determin…
By Clare Duffy, CNN YouTube will begin estimating users' ages using artificial intelligence starting Wednesday, as part of an initiative to prevent minors from accessing inappropriate content online. This move is part of a broader effort to make social media safer for young people, although some users are already expressing concerns about what this will mean for their privacy and experience on the platform. The technology is designed to determin…
It will automatically guess the age of the users. What could be wrong with that?
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